German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 2, 2013 @02:12AM from the skynet-doesn't-like-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Major newspapers in Germany (FAZ, Die Welt, SZ, ...) and the Huffington Post report that the author Ilja Trojanow has been prevented from boarding a plane from Salvador da Bahia to the U.S. where he was invited to attend a conference. He had ESTA documents showing that his visit was approved as part of the Visa Waiver Program and was last year given a visa to teach at the university of Saint Louis. Trojanow was one of the initiators of an open letter (Google translation to English) urging Chancellor Merkel to take actions against NSA surveillance in Germany."

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Re:Remember all those times Bush blocked... by alexo · 2013-10-02 04:07 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Fuck you, you neofascist loser.
How come this flamebait is at +5 insightful?
The GP is right, you do not have an inherent right to enter any country (USA included) you are not a citizen of.
Now, whether this fact is relevant to the discussion or not is a matter of opinion.