George Galloway, thank you very much for doing this.

I'm sitting in London, in the city of London right now.

I'm an American.

You're a citizen of the country I'm sitting in, but you're not in this country.

You're in another country.

Why are you there?

And when are you coming back?

Well, it's a long and difficult story.

It started last month when my good wife and I were detained but not

arrested by the anti-terrorism police at Gatwick Airport in London. Now ponder that piece of

Kafkaesque framing. You are not under arrest but you are not free to leave, they said.

These pistol-packing anti-terrorist cops, they said you have no right to silence,

and if you refuse to answer any of our questions, you will automatically be guilty

under the Terrorism Act of an Act in defiance of that very

serious act.

And the policeman joked, good luck ever getting on an airplane again.

Now, to complete the framing, I'm 71 years old, seven times elected member of parliament, a member of the British parliament

across five decades, the leader of a British political party, the biggest broadcaster in

Britain, not nearly as big as you, but the biggest British broadcaster in Britain, broadcasting

to the largest audience every single week.

I'm one of the best known people in the country and I've got armed anti-terrorist police

telling me I'm not under arrest, but I am not free to leave.

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