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I agree those are questionable circumstances and I do not know enough to rebut that particular article you gave. Perhaps there are other circumstances of him fr
by invisible 16y ago
I agree those are questionable circumstances and I do not know enough to rebut that particular article you gave. Perhaps there are other circumstances of him freaking out and it being harder to disprove than these examples and it also doesn't disprove this example from the more recent article.
This one sounds a lot more curious, and given the way Australia is acting I would not doubt these circumstances. The fact that a) Wikileaks is blocked in their country, b) passport was taken because of wear-and-tear (pretty drastic, and he doesn't lie about their reasoning), c) he received a letter that could have reasonably raised his "threat" level with the police. (And it appears the police do not facilitate checking passports at airports as far as I can tell - that is some other agency.)
- electromagnetic 16y agoYou're right, police do not check passports at the airport building, they're immigration officers - often they do have members who are trained police officers, but they're very rarely the people at the front dealing with the 300 people getting off a plane; the real officers are in the back who deal with the few hand picked out. This holds true for every country I've been in, and I know for sure actual police officers are only in the back in Canada and the UK (I'd safely assume Australia uses the same commonwealth practices though) as I've been directed back there a couple of times (entering Canada) and my wife was directed into the back (entering the UK).
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoWikileaks is not blocked in Australia.
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