Boy Banned from US After Drunk-emailing Obama

[captainnemojr]

Didn't Obama call someone a Jackass? Weird how you can burn US flags and it's protected speech and stuff but a drunken email with a bad name call in it gets a ban-for-life?

 

[garyshome]

I thought that this country was supposed to support Free Speech.

 

[failboat]

power trip

 

[TheDuke]

[citation][nom]garyshome[/nom]I thought that this country was supposed to support Free Speech.[/citation]

i say it's similar to screaming fire in crowded theater
there are limits to free speech

 

[surfer1337dude]

[citation][nom]garyshome[/nom]I thought that this country was supposed to support Free Speech.[/citation]
It does support freedom of speech, but 2 different things are happening. First the student is not an American citizen, nor was he in the US. Secondly by threatening someone else (which is what sending an abusive and threatening email does) intrudes their amendments rights to happiness. So yes we do support freedom of speech but not if it directly affects others' rights (also keep in mind the President of the US is someone that our government takes threats more seriously).

 

[sonnywoj]

but there are very few people who get to say, ive been banned from america.

 

[letsgetsteve]

I'm glad i live in Canada where the optimus prime minister only needs to defend against pies and KFC cutlery..... and he can do it himself. lol

 

[victomofreality]

I call that a bit of an over reaction.

 

[face-plants]

[citation][nom]killerchickens[/nom]This is definitely how I wan't our governments time and money to be spent.[/citation]


Waste of time and resources. Go catch some real bad guys

 

[dimar]

Looks very childish. What if this guy is the only one who can save the country from some disaster in the future?? Will they let him in?

 

[marraco]

What an stupid reason to ban a visitor.

If it were on Iran, newspapers would be all in the rage about how dictatorship and bully is the government.

 

[mman74]

[citation][nom]azcoyote[/nom]Just very British apparently....[/citation]

WhaWhat a mean thing to say to your closest ally or at least the nation that hates you the least in a world of anti-American sentiment. What would the "American" thing to do when one is fully inebriated?

 

[hamthony]

Wow, yet people can spue anti american hate speach left and right and we have to show compasion and understanding, but you call the president a not so naughty word and get banned? President got thin skin? Um, abuse of power and why the heck does the president and secret service have free time for this??????

 

[Guest]

I'm sure the kid said something really racist to our black president. Who needs people like that in the US?

 

[fatdoi]

i thought tourism is trying to promote their country again? doesn't make good impression on people potentially want to spend their $ on police state like this one....

 

[Maxor127]

Story sounds fake.

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]killerchickens[/nom]This is definitely how I wan't our governments time and money to be spent.[/citation]
Mmm. And our tax dollars from schools, right? Especially the English classes.

 

[mcvf]

[citation][nom]bsbsbsbs[/nom]Where'd he get the email address from?[/citation]

I don't know, but maybe it is barack.obama@whitehouse.gov

 

[f-14]

"The police who came round took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever."

hahahahaaaa no great loss, besides you can always cross from the mexican border and someday soon you'll get a blanket pardon.

seriously tho over half of afganistan and pakistan and iraq along with most of the other muslims in the arab world say the same thing, yet we still import them by the thousands, just ask theone who helped some guys fly planes into sky scrapers.

seems like a certain president can't handle a lil kid calling him bad names. wonder what he's going to do to us for signing a petition to have him impeached for failing to do his sworn duty and uphold the (immigration) laws of the united states specifically the ones billy clinton signed back in 1995.

 

[buzznut]

I guess freedom of speech works for Americans, but not if you're a limey.