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Thursday 1 December 2011

TUSC REACTS TO VILE COMMENTS BY JEREMY CLARKSON WITH IMMEDIATE MEDIA RELEASE


JEREMY CLARKSON SHOULD BE SACKED AND CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been reported as saying that public sector strikers should be shot.  On the ‘One Show’, he apparently said, “I’d have them all shot.   I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.”

“If the report is accurate, and Jeremy Clarkson did say that public sector strikers should be shot dead, then I believe, at the very least, he should immediately be charged with Hate Crime and sacked by the BBC,” Pete McLaren, spokesperson for Rugby Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), said today. “There may be other offences he has committed as well. “

“Whether or not he said it tongue in cheek, and I did not see the programme, his reported comments are extremely offensive and bordering on the fascist.  You can not make a joke about executing people in front of their families.  These reported comments are beyond reproach even in a society that correctly values freedom of speech.    Such a freedom should not extend to the right to publicly call for mass exterminations, which is effectively what Clarkson was reported to have said.”

“This is more than just an insult to the millions of public sector workers on strike today to defend pensions and fight cuts.   If the comments have been accurately reported, they indicate a desire to wage terror and war on ordinary working people whose jobs are in the public sector.  The authorities must deal with this immediately,” Pete McLaren concluded.

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