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Foreign E3 Journalists Body Searched, Deported
Thanks to Janko for pointing out a press release at Reporters Without Borders denouncing the US authorities for deporting French games journalists sent to cover E3. The complaint alleges that "..these journalists were treated like criminals - subjected to several body searches, handcuffed, locked up and fingerprinted", after arriving in Los Angeles on (arguably misleading) tourist visas to cover the E3 trade show. It doesn't seem to have been just the French, either - messageboard reports indicate at least 5 British journalists from a variety of publications had a similar treatment. Who'd have thought attending E3 could be so.. dangerous?
These were foreigners who do not have any rights under the US Constitution. What the hell is the problem?
Because they're still human beings, you jackass.
Have you ever travelled outside the US? Would you like to be subject to a number of body searches by foreign customs officers? Even if they found nothing the first time? And they had no real reason to believe that you're any kind of threat other than a small error on your visa?
If you can accept that, and you could accept that happening to you when you leave your warm, cozy, mushy, homogenous mass that is the US at this point in history - well, I pity you.
The US has done great things, and has the power to do yet more great things, but the state of fear and abuse of power that your contry and administration seem to be in now is getting in the way of the good that you could be doing for yourselves and for all of mankind.
It's the closed-minded thinking of people like you, Anonymous Dipshit, that keep your country in a state of fearful apathy.