Kicked out of the US over a twitter Joke.

Run_to_da_hills

manual_man wrote: »

The idiots shouldnt have made such remarks. Full stop. If you're thick enough to post somethin like that on Twitter, you can't have any complaint for gettin booted out. I find it quite hilarious

These guys made these remarks on foreign soil and not in the US of A. What makes matters more worrying is that these same fcukers in US Homeland security have the resources and permission to tap into every PC and GSM mobile phone in the EU if they wanted to. So you better watch your mouth in everything bad you say about the USA.

wush06

Bit like the mods around here a bit ott.



Awaits to be sent home.

Beefy78

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

So many people lack this basic understanding that once you put something on the internet, it's very hard to get rid of.

Don't I know it. But I was young and needed the money...

Captain_Generic

I say I want to destroy things all the time, destroy the toilet, destroy the chicken nuggets, destroy america, but at no point have I threatened to destroy america

rich.d.berry

That's the problem with having a limited vocabulary!

Doc Ruby

Father Damo wrote: »

Is that actually true? Sorry but it sounds like some rubbish you would read on the CT forum by the same retards who believe there were bombs planted in the WTC to bring down the towers, or who had already dediced that the Bin Laden hit had been stage managed within two mins of hearing rumour that it may have happened.

A lot of sites use facebook logins for access and comments, facebook can and does track those. The rest, no, your porn habits are safe from Zuckerberg.

Much of this stuff may sound like conspiracy theories but the reality is that when the European Parliament is issuing advisories to business to use military grade encryption in their day to day operation, its time to wake up. Most communications are monitored by project Echelon, the so-called "five eyes" group. In some circles our twittering friends would have been said to have gotten got "high fived", and they aren't the first by a long shot.

And there's plenty more where that came from.

LittleBook wrote: »

Which means that the only people who will ever be "caught" using this process are numpties like these guys who put the words "destroy" and "America" in one sentence?

Like I said, watch Enemy of the State. If the power exists, the power will be abused, same as it ever was, whether you're talking about the Catholic church, Fianna Fáil, or multinational corporations.

That movie was made fourteen years ago, and at the time it would have been considered a bad dream or on the fringes of paranoid society. These days that power is an accepted fact of life.

The Bad Men are just the excuse to get the power in the first place.

AudreyHepburn

Temptamperu wrote: »

We have had a few terrorist attacks in Ireland, Audrey.

Yes I know but they were perpetrated buy our own people.

Had they been done by foreigners I would fully understand if your security officals responded as the Americans have done.

Run_to_da_hills

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Yes I know but they were perpetrated buy our own people.

Had they been done by foreigners I would fully understand if your security officals responded as the Americans have done.

The Dublin bombings of 1972 was perpetrated by foreigners.

RichieC

This isnt the death of free speech anyway. That died long ago in the us. You have the right to speak as long as the government like it. Look up cointelpro.. The mc carty era hearings.. Lots of journos were denied access to the states because they reported on the wrong things.. Al jazeera bombed in iraq then banned from wall street press corps.

Land of the free it is not and hasnt been for a very long time. Land of decree. More like.

Sister Assumpta

Did anyone else 'lol' at the bit where it said "Leigh, 26, was kept ... in a cell with Mexican drug dealers."

He must have walked like John Wayne out of that one.

Freddie59

RichieC wrote: »

It's actually you doing the justifying here. Gods it's like debating a plank.

I know Richie. I don't know how I cope with you.:D

Overheal

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What about freedom of speech, it should be up to the US authorities to train their idiot intelligence officers on basic slang terminology and context dialogue. No hard-line international terrorist is going to communicate using a public forum not alone use obvious terrorist related keywords.

9/11 is doing exactly what it intended to do and that is to turn the US into a paranoid soviet style police state.

Im sure the intelligence community is capable of deciphering a sense of humor. Especially in English. But I reckon they flagged him as a way of saying 'we don't think our job is a laughing matter' sort of thing. I think they got their point across too.

RichieC wrote: »

This isnt the death of free speech anyway. That died long ago in the us. You have the right to speak as long as the government like it. Look up cointelpro.. The mc carty era hearings.. Lots of journos were denied access to the states because they reported on the wrong things.. Al jazeera bombed in iraq then banned from wall street press corps.

Land of the free it is not and hasnt been for a very long time. Land of decree. More like.

Violations of the bill of rights do not set a precedent for the end of the bill of rights.

If you want to get into the grits, the right to free speech while it may not be as untarnished as the free speech in other nations at this point, it's still much cleaner than the right to free speech in most parts of the world. Doesn't make it Dead. Hell, I have less freedom of speech on this website than I do on the street.

44leto

Well I don't know what people are giving out about, if he was going to destroy america I for one am glad they nabbed him before he could act,,welldone homeland security.

Overheal

LH Pathe

Looked gay to me may be just slang for going to americay to tear up some arseholes?

regardless it wasn't a joke; he had every intention of whatever relatively innocent act it were slang for. Destroy is such a strong word... for a mincer. regardless.

ArtSmart

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If you are thinking of travelling to the states watch your mouth on line. This looks like a similar case to the Paul Chambers blow up RobinHood Airport incident two years ago but there is a worrying difference.

Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.

The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America'.


What is worse, someone being arrested and deported for an innocent twitter message or the fact that the American Secret Service monitors every electronic message you make in the world?

Looks like another Paul Chambers case only in this incident the message would have been detected by automated US intelligence search robots rather than a physical person accidentally coming across the message.

This type of stuff is a grave concern considering our current government is willing to sign away our civil liberties to US orchestrated pacts such as ATCA, SOPA and PIPA which will similarly trawl through monitor and chastise your personal on line life.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html

yeah, right down to knowing his real name etc. scary stuff.

em, i love America. *cough*