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Pro@reddthat.com to News@lemmy.world · 5 hours ago

Australian writer questioned, deported from US after report on pro-Palestinian protests

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Australian writer questioned, deported from US after report on pro-Palestinian protests

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Australian writer questioned, deported from US after report on pro-Palestinian protests  - Committee to Protect Journalists
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Washington, D.C., June 16, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports that Australian writer Alistair Kitchen was denied entry into the United States after border officials at the Los Angeles International Airport searched his phone and questioned him about his views on the Israel-Gaza war. “Alistair Kitchen’s deportation is a clear case of retaliation...
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    Is this not protected speech?

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      Who would protect it?

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        We, The People.

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      Under the First Amendment, explicitly yes.

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      It should be, but obviously not.

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      Not lately.

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      I don’t think we have rules anymore.

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    We’re so utterly fucked. The only silver lining is that none of it is shocking this time, so at least that part’s less exhausting.

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    DHS looks more and more like east German State Security on Steroids

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    As much as I hate Australians this is over the line.

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      It’s not like he’s a vowel-hating Icelander.

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        Honestly even the French rank higher than Australians.

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          Huh, been a while since I’ve seen you around SMCF! Glad you’re still up to your hijinx.

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    Damn. Crazy. I was told this only happened in Evil Foreign Country.

    Beginning to wonder if Americans are not, in fact, Exceptional.

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      I mean they’re the first 21st century fascists. That’s certainly exceptional.

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      We’re exceptional in all the wrong ways.

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    Can’t have any free thinking or free speech in the land of the free, that’s not what we mean by free. It doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay either.

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      The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.

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        What does the billboard say?

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      While everyone else was doing freedom of thought, conscience and expression fascists were cooking up their magnum opus: Freedom from thought, freedom from conscience and freedom from expression.

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    Oh shit the Nazis have taken over every level of the American government.

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      I think we already knew they’d taken over Customs and Immigration. This is yet more of the same shit they’ve been pulling for decades - just more blatant and with a lot more coverage than usual, which is nice that people are finally seeing what they’re doing. Eyes-on is, despite the lack of rebellious glamour, a critical thing to have…

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