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One would imagine that free speech would mean that foreigners wouldn't get deported at the border just for the mockery of, or having displeasure against the POT
by sham1 2y ago
One would imagine that free speech would mean that foreigners wouldn't get deported at the border just for the mockery of, or having displeasure against the POTUS.
And even if it didn't mean that, it'd be very ironic for an administration, where one of its most powerful gray eminence admonished for example Germany for its "lack of free speech" (paraphrasing).
- chrisco255 2y agoWhat were the actual texts? Have we gotten confirmation from homeland security if it was just harmless criticism? What if they were violent texts or threats of violence?
- sham1 2y agoWe haven't gotten the texts, but we do have the French statement that the denial was done due to the researcher's personal opinions about Trump's policy towards research. Is there some reason to be sceptical about the validity of the French assessment? I'm fairly certain that if the researcher had actually claimed actual violence or similar in the texts, then France wouldn't have made this into a diplomatic incident. Do you have a reason to disagree?
- chrisco255 2y agoYes, there's plenty of reason to be skeptical without evidence. Hearsay happens all the time. Governments lie. When two governments say two different things, either or both of them could be lying.