Deport Piers Morgan.

A petition on the White House's website calling for CNN journalist Piers Morgan to be deported from the USA over his stance on gun control following the Newtown massacre has garnered the 100,000 signatures needed for the White House to make a formal response. To anyone who doesn't watch Piers Morgan's nightly CNN talk show (so most people then) this is seen as a bit of a joke. However it does touch onto something much deeper. In the episode broadcast on December 13th (13/12/12); http://archive.org/details/CNNW_20121214_050000_Piers_Morgan_Tonight# Morgan interviewed former New York Mayor Rudi Gulliani and spoke at length about the issue of gun control talking specifically about the AR-15 rifle used at Newtown. Gulliani went into a monologue basically advising any would be mass shooter who couldn't get access to take hand guns instead. This is exactly the sort of psychological trigger which could be used to activate a mentally unstable person who was being prepared to carry out this type of attack. The fact that the episode went on to be broadcast internationally the following day - the day of the attack - does also look like the US warning it's networks abroad (Embassies etc) of what was to happen with out leaving much of a paper trail.

If true this wouldn't be the first time that Morgan has been stitched up by the political establishment. In 2004 during the occupation of Iraq Alistair Campbell - the Prime Minister's press officer - provided Morgan with photographs showing British troops abusing Iraqi detainees. Morgan then published these photographs in the Mirror newspaper of which was editor. The problem was that the photographs were quite easily provable fakes and the ensuing scandal forced Morgan's resignation and meant that all other genuine stories of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners were treated with scepticism.

So I hope the White Houses' response to the petition does bear those issues in mind. However I hope that Morgan doesn't get deported because if he does it means he'll have to come back here to Britain.

16:55 on 8/1/13.