French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

[rough diamond]

37 minutes ago, transam said:

You should try reading your own stuff........

You should know by now that no such reading or understanding ever takes place. Even if it did the tape cuts in with the pre-prepared script.

[Yagoda]

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Free speech was banned in 2019 when Hunters laptop dropped. Dont remember a single forum lefty moaning about it at the time. Why now?

Because they hate America and love terrorists coming over our border. 

[PomPolo]

10 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

 

Very officially, US has now banned free speech.

Not that many people on AN will be allowed in the US then, browser cache deletes if anyone is planning a visit to the US on here 🤣

[Felton Jarvis]

10 hours ago, hotsun said:

Anyone on aseannow that plans to go to US, hope you havent criticized trump. The US govt has access to this forum and you cant delete posts

I am a US citizen but I would not bet that I couldn't be banned from returning. America has gone bat<deleted> crazy.

[ElwoodP]

Post misspelling world leaders name removed. Spell them right, or have your post removed.

[SunnyinBangrak]

30 minutes ago, PomPolo said:

Not that many people on AN will be allowed in the US then, browser cache deletes if anyone is planning a visit to the US on here 🤣

Anyone seething with irrational hatred for President Trump should be banned from entering the US. Ticking time bombs the lot of them. I just don't know how they can be brought back to reality after they swallowed hysterical hoaxes for many years it's now hardwired into their dna. My facebook feed is full of friends and family freaking out about some Trump hoax or other. Bonkers & dangerous IMO.

Sadly citizens can't be blocked no matter how badly they are crippled by this widespread irrational hatred.

[blaze master]

7 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This is how I'm currently hiding my shame for formerly living in Murikkka:

 

(I had to sew the patch on myself, I couldn't find a ball cap online, eh?)

 

With your racist avatar you'd be eaten alive in Canada. What you only now want to cover up your support for a nazi originated company ?

 

Just do it. 

[NoDisplayName]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Beloved American treasure Harvey Fierstein says:

Wake the hell up!

It's hilarious that the maga fascists say they are bringing back free speech.

Take whatever garbage they spout and the exact opposite is closer to the actual truth.

 

Harvey Fierstein Says He's "Banned" From Kennedy Center Amid Trump Takeover: "How Freedom Ends"

 

 

Funny how they put "banned" in scare quotes as though it meant something different......

 

But he's free to perform his filthy QWERTY% filth as he likes.  He's free to find another venue.  He's free to rent a stage somewhere.  He's free to pay for it himself.

 

Funny again how free speech is only "free" for him, not for the taxpayers that are forced to pay for it.

[NoDisplayName]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Beloved American treasure Harvey Fierstein says:

Wake the hell up!

It's hilarious that the maga fascists say they are bringing back free speech.

Take whatever garbage they spout and the exact opposite is closer to the actual truth.

 

Harvey Fierstein Says He's "Banned" From Kennedy Center Amid Trump Takeover: "How Freedom Ends"

 

 

Oh what a treasure!

 

Kinky Boots is a musical that features music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. It tells the story of Charlie Price, who teams up with drag queen Lola to save his family's struggling shoe factory by producing a line of high-heeled boots,

 

The sissy duckling?  hey asked him to make a Jewish version of a classic Western fairy-tale, but Fierstein thought that a fairy-tale modified to center a gay character was more needed at the time,^[3] choosing Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling to modify and recreate.

 

Glad I ain't payin' for that carp no more.

[rough diamond]

46 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

My facebook feed is full of friends and family freaking out about some Trump hoax or other. Bonkers & dangerous IMO.

Sadly citizens can't be blocked no matter how badly they are crippled by this widespread irrational hatred.

Have you considered the possibility that they are right and that you are wrong?

[SunnyinBangrak]

13 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

Have you considered the possibility that they are right and that you are wrong?

The comment was Oh there goes all womens rights. A typical bs rant. Women can still vote, work, date, marry, have kids or not. It was the usual nonsensical emotional outburst. No fact checking needed, although Im sure the hiveminders here will agree with her stance.

[Felton Jarvis]

2 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Anyone seething with irrational hatred for President Trump should be banned from entering the US. Ticking time bombs the lot of them. I just don't know how they can be brought back to reality after they swallowed hysterical hoaxes for many years it's now hardwired into their dna. My facebook feed is full of friends and family freaking out about some Trump hoax or other. Bonkers & dangerous IMO.

Sadly citizens can't be blocked no matter how badly they are crippled by this widespread irrational hatred.

I'm proud to declare my unyielding hatred for the most insane President ever to defecate in the White House. I. will cease hating him when his obituary is printed. He is evil personified.

[rough diamond]

2 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Anyone seething with irrational hatred for President Trump should be banned from entering the US.

There is nothing irrational about hatred for that idiot Trump, especially if you are not American.

Russians, Chinese etc are of course his best buddies for obvious reasons and not included above!

[simon43]

4 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

I'm proud to declare my unyielding hatred for the most insane President ever to defecate in the White House. I. will cease hating him when his obituary is printed. He is evil personified.

He's a top bloke!!

[NoDisplayName]

14 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

I'm proud to declare my unyielding hatred for the most insane President ever to defecate in the White House. I. will cease hating him when his obituary is printed. He is evil personified.

 

That is your right, as is your right to store text messages on your device saying as much.

 

However, if you are pulled aside for a random interview at the border, and those texts include what might be considered "terroristic threats", then you shouldn't be surprised that the agency might open an investigation.

 

Yes, you might explain you really didn't mean to call for violence against the president, and the investigation will be closed.  But you shouldn't be surprised that you won't be allowed in either.

 

Comedian Kathy Griffin said she faced a two-month federal investigation after she posted a controversial photo with the fake severed head of President Trump and was almost charged with conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.

 

“A lot of people don’t know this part,” Griffin explained. “Actually two federal agencies, the Secret Service and the assistant U.S. attorney’s office, were putting me under a two-month federal investigation and considering charging me with a crime — this is real — of conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.”

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/420406-kathy-griffin-says-she-faced-potential-conspiracy-to/

[Ben Zioner]

40 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

Russians, Chinese etc are of course his best buddies for obvious reasons and not included above!

He and his MAGA crowd are too stupid to see that he is know Moscow's and Beijing's "useful idiot". 

 

If not worse.

[Felton Jarvis]

1 hour ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

That is your right, as is your right to store text messages on your device saying as much.

 

However, if you are pulled aside for a random interview at the border, and those texts include what might be considered "terroristic threats", then you shouldn't be surprised that the agency might open an investigation.

 

Yes, you might explain you really didn't mean to call for violence against the president, and the investigation will be closed.  But you shouldn't be surprised that you won't be allowed in either.

 

Comedian Kathy Griffin said she faced a two-month federal investigation after she posted a controversial photo with the fake severed head of President Trump and was almost charged with conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.

 

“A lot of people don’t know this part,” Griffin explained. “Actually two federal agencies, the Secret Service and the assistant U.S. attorney’s office, were putting me under a two-month federal investigation and considering charging me with a crime — this is real — of conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.”

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/420406-kathy-griffin-says-she-faced-potential-conspiracy-to/

I never store text messages on my phone. 100 percent of them are exchanges with my Thai girlfriend. Since I am an American citizen, I doubt that they can deny me entry but I've been surprised every day since this POS was elected.

[Mike_Hunt]

14 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

 

Very officially, US has now banned free speech.   

I'd wager there is more to this story.    Customs does not look at every phone of every person entering the USA.  What did this guy do to draw attention to himself? 

[Mike_Hunt]

14 hours ago, BritManToo said:

That's good, foreigners in the USA shouldn't be covered by the US constitution, it should be for citizens only.

The UK government also doesn't allow foreigners who write stuff they don't like to enter or even pass through UK airports (Roosh V).

They are covered by the US constitution once they are outside the port of entry. 

[NoDisplayName]

15 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

I never store text messages on my phone. 100 percent of them are exchanges with my Thai girlfriend. Since I am an American citizen, I doubt that they can deny me entry but I've been surprised every day since this POS was elected.

 

Do you believe the French scientist was denied entry due to text messages that simply said "Trump's mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries"?

 

Or is there more, bigly more, to the story, that MSM is conveniently leaving out?

[rough diamond]

15 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The UK government also doesn't allow foreigners who write stuff they don't like to enter or even pass through UK airports (Roosh V).

Link please!

 

[Jingthing]

4 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Oh what a treasure!

 

Kinky Boots is a musical that features music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. It tells the story of Charlie Price, who teams up with drag queen Lola to save his family's struggling shoe factory by producing a line of high-heeled boots,

 

The sissy duckling?  hey asked him to make a Jewish version of a classic Western fairy-tale, but Fierstein thought that a fairy-tale modified to center a gay character was more needed at the time,^[3] choosing Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling to modify and recreate.

 

Glad I ain't payin' for that carp no more.

Thank you for coming out with your vomitous bigotry.

Better to be open so we know what we're dealing with. 

So you clearly don't consider LGBTQ citizens equal to you as you obviously want all content related to them straightwashed from public institutions.

Which BTW fascist Trump is actively doing right now. 

Great!

Are you OK with LGBTQ people being exempt from taxation then?

Wouldn't that only be fair? 
Hmm?

 

[NoDisplayName]

26 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

So you clearly don't consider LGBTQ citizens equal

 

Did I say that?  No, they have equal rights.  Such as the right to find a venue NOT supported by "traditional" people.

 

I'm sure there's a bigly wide audience for that garbage.  Why, there must be dozens of people clamoring for drag queen operas and wokimaginings of classic fairy tales.  Literally dozens!

[Jingthing]

Just now, NoDisplayName said:

 

Did I say that?  No, they have equal rights.  Such as the right to find a venue NOT supported by "traditional" people.

 

I'm sure there's a bigly wide audience for that garbage.  Why, there must be dozens of people clamoring for drag queen operas and wokimaginings of classic fairy tales.  Literally dozens!

Stop lying. You're obviously in favor of discrimination against LGBTQ content at the Kennedy Center. Nobody who thinks LGBTQ deserve equal civil rights would think that. Own up to your bigotry. Nobody will believe otherwise with your positions.

[NoDisplayName]

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Stop lying. You're obviously in favor of discrimination against LGBTQ content at the Kennedy Center. Nobody who thinks LGBTQ deserve equal civil rights would think that. Own up to your bigotry. Nobody will believe otherwise with your positions.

 

"content"

 

 

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

"content"

 

 

I would be shocked if very many bigots know very much about the arts in the first place.

But they know who they hate.

 

[NoDisplayName]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

I would be shocked if very many bigots know very much about the arts in the first place.

 

"arts"

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

"arts"

You're proving my point. 

I'm guessing you probably never even heard of Harvey Fierstein before this topic.

[NoDisplayName]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

You're proving my point. 

 

The alphabet people are welcome to consume their special "content" and enjoy wokage for the "modern audience" in seedy UNsubsidized "art" theatres outside municipal limits.

[Walker88]

5 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Anyone seething with irrational hatred for President Trump should be banned from entering the US. Ticking time bombs the lot of them. I just don't know how they can be brought back to reality after they swallowed hysterical hoaxes for many years it's now hardwired into their dna. My facebook feed is full of friends and family freaking out about some Trump hoax or other. Bonkers & dangerous IMO.

Sadly citizens can't be blocked no matter how badly they are crippled by this widespread irrational hatred.

What you call "irrational hatred", sane, intelligent and rational people call "patriotism".

 

See, some of us not only went to school and learned about the ideals for which the US stands, but also studied the Constitution and understand the Founders' concept and intent of "free speech", "freedom of the press", "freedom of assumply", etc., know that POTUS is against everything the Founders intended. They knew too much power in one place led to oppression as well as self-dealing, so they set up 3 equal branches of government. The current POTUS prefers autocracy and imagines himself a king with unrestrained power as well as protection from lese majeste laws. Last Friday he admonished attorneys at the DoJ to look into his critics---such as major media---because "it must be illegal".

 

Some of us served. Some of us also lived in or dealt with foreign entities that were autocratic. We know the dangers first hand, and those leaders are anathema to us. That is not what the Founders intended, nor is it what many of us went into harm's way to defend. You never put yourself on the line for the US, so you are incapable of understanding, just as you are incapable of understanding what the Founders intended when Madison and Jefferson put their thoughts and intentions into words.

 

Democracy does allow the ignorant and the willfully ignorant to vote. Sadly, more of them voted in 2024 than intelligent people, so we are living the prediction of H.L. Mencken about the common people someday getting their wish and the White House occupied by a moron.

 

For the time being, the ignorant have won. This will pass, though it is those every same ignorant who will suffer most from the coming economic collapse and the abandonment of the allies who have kept keep the world pretty safe and pretty prosperous for the last 80 years.