yes I sat in the British Parliament for
almost 25 years and uh sat in the
parliament when ofcom was created and of
course none of this overtly political
censorship was in the parliament's mind
when these proposals were laid before
them uh this is not about media
regulation after all not only as your
correspondent said are all sorts of
foreign based television channels
modeled exactly along the same lines as
press tv still broadcasting on the sky
platform but you have the most
disgusting the most obscene sex channels
by the Dozen operating under ofcom's
nose uh and uh of course they're free to
do so our crime at press tv was not only
that we were telling the truth that some
indeed most other broadcast cerss were
deliberately concealing but we were
becoming more and more popular which is
why you're right to show the many
different ways that it will still be
possible to see press tv in the United
Kingdom uh because uh we have built an
audience for the station very quickly
and very widely uh over the last couple
of years precisely because of the
shortcomings of other uh channels I've
been seeing all along that this is uh a
blow of course to press tv it means some
of our viewers will find it more
difficult to watch us but it's much more
of a blow to the British government's uh
hypocritical stance of being in favor of
freedom of expression freedom of speech
indeed we're often told here in Britain
that we must actually go to war in other
people's countries to bring such
freedoms to their them or we're told we
must sanction other countries in order
to help bring such freedoms to them well
now the whole world can see that flag
that you're showing on the screen now uh
is a flag of hypocrisy not
democracy and uh if you can tell us a
little bit uh uh George about uh the CEO
of afcom and any other Personnel of
afcom in terms of their past uh their
relations if there are any to the UK
government for
example yes uh most of them in fact fit
into one or other of those categories
they are highly paid fact totems
ultimately as your package showed
Servants of the British state they're
not independent at all as this action
makes clear after all it was
foreshadowed uh in the Wikileaks cables
which revealed a discussion between
British and American officials in which
it was explicitly stated that uh steps
were being taken to find a way to put
press tv London off the air we saw the
quotation in the Sunday Times one of Mr
Murdock's uh gutter
newspapers uh in which a highly placed
foreign office official was quoted
directly uh saying that yes efforts were
being made to take press tv off the air
this is long before any question of
fines over 10c news Clips uh they were
out to get us because we
were achieving more and more of a share
of the audience we were being discussed
more and more in the country more and
more people were queuing up to be
interviewed by us because they could see
that this press tv was a voice for the
voiceless which I'm sure God willing it
will continue to be so ofcom is not
independent it has proved today that it
is a servant of the British State and
the British government and that means Mr
Cameron who was kissing the nose of the
Saudi dictatorship last week and kissing
the nose uh of the bahini dictator uh in
London at 10 Downing Street just a week
or two before and uh you have shown the
close relationship between Britain and
these puppet dictatorships in the
Persian Gulf and uh our unremitting
determination to show the truth about
what's happening in Saudi Arabia and
Bahrain is definitely one of the reasons
why we've suffered this fate but the
biggest reason was not touched on in
your package and it is our determination
to tell the truth about the ongoing
Israeli crimes against the Palestinian
people that if you were drawing up a
list of crimes on our charge sheet is
definitely at the top ofcom has
constantly harassed press tv throughout
the four years that I've worked there on
the issue of Israel and Palestine they
think that they may have done Israel a
favor uh today but truthfully Israel's
in so much trouble his it will take much
more than this to effectively do Israel
a favor well as your package showed
there's an inherent contradiction in
their stand if press tv London does not
control the editorial content why was
press tv London find
£100,000 and if press tv London does
control the content why has its license
being revoked truthfully this is all
just window dressing it's throwing sand
in the eyes uh of the undiscerning but
it will not uh convince or persuade many
people in Britain who know the real
reason why we've been taken off air as
my colleague Roshan made clear earlier
in this bulletin we are controlled in
exactly the same way as France 24 CNN
Russia Today CCTV and any one of dozens
of uh foreign owned television stations
who happen to be on the sky platform for
and the day will come I have no doubt
when Britain's relations with one or
other of these countries that are
represented through their television
stations on the Skye platform will fall
foul of political relations with Britain
and the same merrygoround the same
constructions false constructions can be
made against them and they should beware
of that uh the British government uh
likes to dress up in the clothes of of
Liberty but in truth it is far from a
friend of Liberty and they have
demonstrated it in the course of their
uh action against press tv throughout
the last few months and again today the
Great Britain Francis Bacon uh described
self-censorship as the arrow that flies
in the night because no one sees it but
it achieves its deadly effect and this
action today by ofcom Will undoubtedly
cause
self-censorship elsewhere in the media
operating in Britain because people at
the top of other media Outlets will know
that if the they or the country to which
they belong FSE foul of the British
anglo-american foreign policy access
that the same thing can happen to them
so they will begin uh like The Arrow
flying in the night to self-censor
themselves before off
has to do it for them and that will be a
general leveling down of the level of
truthfulness in the in the British media
uh which is already in a pretty
powerless condition I must tell you the
uh the cat's chorus of Conformity uh
within the prevailing Orthodoxy in the
great majority of stations broadcasting
in Britain is already uh becoming
Infamous around the world the BBC which
was once the pride of Britain became the
bush and Blair Corporation and hasn't
recovered from that period and is uh
absolutely Craven in front of power
because of course the British State
controls the purse uh on which they all
live and live very well just like the
executives at ofcom live very well out
of the public purse um of course
stations like Russia today uh are much
much better than that but they will
undoubtedly be influenced by the uh
actions of ofcom today against press tv
and that will lead to a loss for the
viewer uh watching on the sky platform
but we must
stress that the number of people
watching us on the sky platform whilst
growing and whilst significant PS into
insignificance compared to the people
watching us all over the world on a
plethora of different platforms and that
today has begun to be replicated I've
had dozens already of emails in Britain
from people telling me that they're
still watching Press TV on one of the
other satellites that you have mentioned
or through the internet or through the
downloadable app on their telephone this
is a 21st century the era of the sensor
has largely
gone