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Feb. 24th, 2006 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
like_a_clownLondon's mayor has been suspended from office on full pay for four weeks for comparing a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard.
From the BBC: Link.
I have a problem with the fact that he's still getting paid. I mean, I know it mars his record and makes him look really bad, and that's no small thing to a public figure, but it still bugs me that, looked at one way, he's getting a paid month off for this. Make him donate his pay to anti-bigotry charity or something. Yes, I believe in freedom of speech, but also in responsibility for your actions as a public official -- I could be persuaded to see this as incitement of anti-Semitism. Grr.
From the BBC: Link.
I have a problem with the fact that he's still getting paid. I mean, I know it mars his record and makes him look really bad, and that's no small thing to a public figure, but it still bugs me that, looked at one way, he's getting a paid month off for this. Make him donate his pay to anti-bigotry charity or something. Yes, I believe in freedom of speech, but also in responsibility for your actions as a public official -- I could be persuaded to see this as incitement of anti-Semitism. Grr.
