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UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email
British teenager Luke Angel has been banned from the US for sending an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity. The 17-year-old says he was drunk when he sent the mail and doesn't understand what the big deal is. "I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a p***k. It was silly -- the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few," he said. The FBI contacted local police who in turn confronted Luke and let him know that the US Department of Homeland Security didn't think his email was funny. "The police came and took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever. I don't really care but my parents aren't very happy," Angel said.
We'll teach him that America doesn't tolerate someone speaking freely!
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I'm trying to figure out how "prick" is obscenity, so much so to get you banned from the United States? I don't think this is about the kid or the word. I think this is more about the kid is British. Whatever you think of them or us or Bush or whatever, there are plenty of examples of thinly veiled hostility from this administration toward our most important ally in the world.
There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.
I served my country, 5 years in the Marine Corps. I've been all over the world, to countries that saying anything about the leader of that country could get you thrown in prison or worse.
This is a knee-jerk reaction to a kid's momentary lapse of judgement.
You know nothing about me, and it seems, not a whole lot about anything.
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I know this is hard to grasp for an American, but England is NOT a state of the United States of America. Not yet anyway. So Obama is NOT his president. And since he is 17, he hasn't yet voted for anybody either.
The US is not obliged to allow anyone in.
And I would think that the Brits have NOTHING to complain about since they have blocked Geert Wilders from entering because they didn't like what he had to say.
So the US can't keep out of a drunk teen, but the UK can keep out an elected citizen of an EU nation and a Nato ally?
Double standards, thou name is Britain.
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Whatever wikipedia has to say is ALSO nullified by the Supreme Law of the Land.
There is NO law, rule, politician, government, court, or article higher than these words:
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." - "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - Plus the various "free speech" rights codified in the 50 State Constitutions.
Therefore any law that forbids you from saying, "President ____ should be dead," is a nonexistent law. It is nullified. It has zero force. This is not rocket science... there is no law higher than the Constitution. Simply to understand really; even for those with low IQ.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall