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Being sympathetic isn't a crime. Also covering things as a journalist not only isn't a crime but also is protected in many forms by the Constitution. Americans
by tdb7893 8y ago
Being sympathetic isn't a crime. Also covering things as a journalist not only isn't a crime but also is protected in many forms by the Constitution. Americans are very very very touchy about possible freedom of speech and freedom of the press violations.
I'm not sure what crime these journalists are going to commit that makes us need to track them.
- calvinbhai 8y agoCurious: So, if for some reason, there are journalists that are creating content for groups/regimes that are anti-America (lets say ISIS, Assad, Ahmedinajad or Jong Un), would that journalist never been seen with any kind of suspicion in the US?
- tdb7893 8y agoThe thing is that you really need some specific reason to be suspicious and being a journalist or activist isn't inherently suspicious. It's not that you can't be suspicious of journalists, you just need an actual reason and there really isn't a clear one here. Edit: People are also particularly touchy about this because suppression of activists and journalists enables more authoritarian control and human rights abuses to the point where it's a trait of every recent authoritarian government I'm aware of.
- haha9993 8y agoclassic straw man argument. The immigrants in question are not ISIS and are not anti-america.
- calvinbhai 8y agoIsn't that the argument the Trump administration is using? that it's possible for terrorists to sneak in along with the caravan?