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I'm George Galloway, member of

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parliament and presenter of Press TV's

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comment program. Every week at Ask

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Galloway, I answer the best of the

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questions that have been asked to me in

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the in the preceding week. Uh this week

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I'm going for the question posed by

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Boiled Vark, which is this. If you could

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beam anyone up permanently on board the

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file to sit on a comet for the rest of

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eternity, who would it be? Well, I

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agonized about some of my political

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enemies, but I came down to someone who

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not everyone in the world will know, and

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they're the lucky ones. Her name is

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Katie Hopkins. She's a columnist on the

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down market sewer rat newspaper, The

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Sun, and she's been getting down and

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dirty. This week, she tweeted that it

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was time for Israel to start the bombing

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of the Palestinian people again. And she

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described the Palestinian people as

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rodents burrowing away underneath

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Israel. two-state solution, my ars, she

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said. Now, it was a very odd choice of

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words, quite apart from how offensive it

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was to describe the Palestinian people

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as rodents when she's a ratfaced

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herself, was really very strange. In

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fact, she is the lowest of the low. Even

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amongst the Sun columnists, she is the

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lowest of the low. her personal behavior

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uh not just uh on television although

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some of her personal behavior unknown to

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her was being caught on television but

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because of her political views which run

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the range of right to extreme right than

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Genghis K. Now I'm asking a question

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here. If a Muslim personality, say a

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cricketer or a famous Muslim footballer

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had called for people to start bombing

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Israel, if that personality had

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described Israelis

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as rodents burrowing away underneath

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Palestine,

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I hazard a guess they'd already be under

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arrest. There certainly would be a

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clamor in parliament, in the media to

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put that person under arrest because we

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have laws against hate speech, against

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deliberately seeking to incite hatred,

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which is usually followed by violence

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against any group of people. So, in

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answering your question, I'm asking

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another one. Why isn't Katie Hopkins on

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trial? And when will the television

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companies stop inviting her to their

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sofa? And when will Rupert Murdoch stop

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paying her money to write offensive,

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obscene columns? I guess we'll wait a

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long time for that one. Well, that's it

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for this week. Don't forget #

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askgalloway. Give me your questions.

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I'll answer the best of them every week

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at this time.