Comments on: The Directorate of Immigration Refuse to Deport Miriam Rose http://www.savingiceland.org/2007/10/the-directorate-of-immigration-refuse-to-deport-miriam-rose/ Saving the wilderness from heavy industry Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.savingiceland.org/2007/10/the-directorate-of-immigration-refuse-to-deport-miriam-rose/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-325 We have no reason to assume that the interview was delayed in order not to further the cause. A lot has been going on in the politics the last weeks and it is quite common that Kastljós interviews are not broadcasted for some weeks. I think that Helgi Seljan gave Miriam a good opportunity to explain her matter and that all journalists who have taken an interest in the cause have been fair and factual. We have no reason to assume that the interview was delayed in order not to further the cause. A lot has been going on in the politics the last weeks and it is quite common that Kastljós interviews are not broadcasted for some weeks. I think that Helgi Seljan gave Miriam a good opportunity to explain her matter and that all journalists who have taken an interest in the cause have been fair and factual.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.savingiceland.org/2007/10/the-directorate-of-immigration-refuse-to-deport-miriam-rose/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-326 I applaud the decision of the Directorate of Immigration. In fact they never could have decided otherwise. Simply because it was clear to them that to deport Miriam Rose would have caused uproar in Icelandic society. Public opinion was against them. They, or the police have absolutely no right to deport foreign people for exercising their constitutional right to protest, even if they cross into the legally gray area of non violent civil disobedience. Nor does the State apparatus have any authority to define what are the "fundamental values of society". This "fundamental value" business just shows how sloppy Icelandic cops are. A few OK journalists have looked into this deportation case. Helgi Seljan being one of them, but Helgi Seljan is not an editor of Kastljós, so I really can't see that you can be so certain that the delay in transmitting this interview didn't have anything to do with Kastljos not wanting to rock the boat at a "delicate" time. Helgi Seljan is an upright journalist, he also wrote an important article against the dams at Kárahnjúkar, but he was already on the Kastljos team this summer when the RUV TV news department broadcast unsubstantiated slander about Saving Iceland. At the time the news department refused to give SI members a chance to answer for themselves in Kastljos, but instead let two notorious right wing commentators, Agnes Bragadottir and Egill Helgason, heap scandalous bile over Saving Iceland as if they had been hired to do it. I am sure Helgi Seljan had nothing to do with that. The decision was obviously taken at a higher level in the RUV hierarchy. Lets face it, there is no reason what so ever to think that those at the helm in RUV are not biased to the hilt when it comes to all opposition to heavy industry in this country. The fact is that the entire media in Iceland, newspapers, radio and televison is firmly under the control of the right wing, and they abuse that power when it suits them. S.M. Icelandic media manipulatiion: http://www.savingiceland.org/?p=694#comment-914 I applaud the decision of the Directorate of Immigration. In fact they never could have decided otherwise. Simply because it was clear to them that to deport Miriam Rose would have caused uproar in Icelandic society. Public opinion was against them.

They, or the police have absolutely no right to deport foreign people for exercising their constitutional right to protest, even if they cross into the legally gray area of non violent civil disobedience. Nor does the State apparatus have any authority to define what are the “fundamental values of society”. This “fundamental value” business just shows how sloppy Icelandic cops are.

A few OK journalists have looked into this deportation case. Helgi Seljan being one of them, but Helgi Seljan is not an editor of Kastljós, so I really can’t see that you can be so certain that the delay in transmitting this interview didn’t have anything to do with Kastljos not wanting to rock the boat at a “delicate” time.

Helgi Seljan is an upright journalist, he also wrote an important article against the dams at Kárahnjúkar, but he was already on the Kastljos team this summer when the RUV TV news department broadcast unsubstantiated slander about Saving Iceland. At the time the news department refused to give SI members a chance to answer for themselves in Kastljos, but instead let two notorious right wing commentators, Agnes Bragadottir and Egill Helgason, heap scandalous bile over Saving Iceland as if they had been hired to do it. I am sure Helgi Seljan had nothing to do with that. The decision was obviously taken at a higher level in the RUV hierarchy.

Lets face it, there is no reason what so ever to think that those at the helm in RUV are not biased to the hilt when it comes to all opposition to heavy industry in this country. The fact is that the entire media in Iceland, newspapers, radio and televison is firmly under the control of the right wing, and they abuse that power when it suits them.

S.M.

Icelandic media manipulatiion: http://www.savingiceland.org/?p=694#comment-914

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