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Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - Tiangou - 03-20-2025
https://newrepublic.com/post/192946/french-scientist-denied-us-entry-trump-criticism
The French newspaper Le Monde reports that on March 9, a space researcher was randomly selected upon arrival in Houston for a search, and CBP found messages criticizing the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists, which, according to the agency, “conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism.”
The researcher’s phone and computer were allegedly confiscated, and he was sent back to Europe the next day. The news prompted the attention of the French government, which expressed alarm.
“I was told with concern that a French researcher, on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), who was going to a conference near Houston, was banned from entering the US before being expelled,” said France’s Minister of Higher Education and Research Philippe Baptiste, in a statement Wednesday. “This would have been taken by the US authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relations in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy.”
Travel tip for nations such as China, Korea, Russia, and the United States: Leave your phone and computer at home and bring a fresh "burner" phone.
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - pdq - 03-20-2025
So, writing bad/derogatory things about Trump (and his anti-science, anti-education positions) on your computer (including, perhaps “somebody should really put him - and us - out of our misery”, or “I wish I could just punch him in the nuts”) now “could be qualified as terrorism”?
Got it.
I guess we’re all terrorists now.
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - Acer - 03-20-2025
Freedom of Speech is only for paying customers, sorry.
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - TheCaber - 03-20-2025
How about criticism of 47? He's still a fucking moron!
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - Speedy - 03-20-2025
Until you clear customs you are not protected by the Bill of Rights.
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - Acer - 03-20-2025
"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against any government on earth, general or particular, and what no government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - special - 03-20-2025
Speedy wrote:
Until you clear customs you are not protected by the Bill of Rights.
So they arrest you abroad and take you to a CIA black site?
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - Speedy - 03-21-2025
special wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Until you clear customs you are not protected by the Bill of Rights.
So they arrest you abroad and take you to a CIA black site?
They could. But much easier to detain you at the border.
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - JoeH - 03-21-2025
Speedy wrote:
Until you clear customs you are not protected by the Bill of Rights.
With the claims by US Border Patrol and ICE that they have enhanced search and identification rights within 100 miles of the border, even that is not as clear as it once was. 2/3 of the US population lives within that zone.
Re: Criticism of 45 is now "terrorism" according to DHS... - mrbigstuff - 03-21-2025
"Extra-judicial."