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UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert
Big Hairy Ian writes "An American expert in violent self-defense has been excluded from entering the UK by the Home Office. From the article: 'Tim Larkin tried to board a plane from his home in Las Vegas on Tuesday, but was given a UK Border Agency letter saying "his presence here was not conducive to the public good." Mr Larkin, who was due to host seminars, told the BBC the move was a "gross over-reaction." The Home Office said he was subject to an exclusion order. A spokeswoman said: "The home secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good." Mr Larkin — who trained as a US Navy Seal — runs a company teaching combat to military and law enforcement clients in the United States.'"
"Fuck it, I'll undo my mod points."
Thank you. The less people we have moderating who insist they know the absolute truth of what happened when in reality all they have is some likely 5th hand account from an unobjective press source the better.
Really, if you're going to show that level of inability to pursue rational discussion then could you kindly do Slashdot a favour and always not use or undo your mod points?
The fact is you don't know what happened, the fact you feel the need to insist you know exactly what happened in response to something that IMO was intended somewhat sarcastically implies you have a strong political bias on the subject and political bias is like a fucking terminal disease on this site.