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Milo Yiannopoulos: I am a persecuted human rights icon
The Spectator ^ | 09/01/26 | Milo Yiannopoulos

Posted on 09/02/2026 5:59:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Thursday night, New Orleans. I have flown in from Los Angeles for work and am walking off the jet bridge, thinking about dinner, when 15 men in vests coalesce around me. I have never been arrested before. Even they find it strange, because I am British, and I am in Balenciaga, and I am ever so nice about it all.

They take my belt, wallet, every piece of identification, my rosary and Missal, cash. They put me in chains. Real chains. Every man they arrest, whatever he has done, ends up garlanded in steel like this: wincing, hopping, clattering. It hurts more than they make out on TV.

Yes. I am being deported.

Somewhere in Miami, at hearings nobody told me about, a judge has ordered me removed. My work permit has been canceled without a word. The notices were sent to a Florida address I left ten years ago, which, I realize, must have been on purpose. The same agencies have been writing regularly and without incident to my new address for years.

Three of the five warning letters were even returned, marked “addressee unknown.” The arresting agents told me so. When I said I could not find my lawyer’s number, an agent read it to me off his computer screen. But somehow my lawyer had never been informed about any of the past year’s developments. I am stripped, starved, shipped between three detention centers in 12 hours.

A few of the agents knew my face from 2016, when I was Donald Trump’s biggest fan. Back then, I called him Daddy. “Yeah, I’m not doing this,” said one officer. “This is not what I got into this for,” muttered another. I’m certain I saw at least one walk off the job while I was being booked.

The last pair, who drove me to Houston for the flight, said they were getting “calls from Washington” every 20 minutes. They agreed that none of this was normal. “You must have pissed someone off.” My photo is already on the ICE Twitter account, though I won’t know it for another 18 hours.

I spent years demanding this agency be let off the leash. And so it is. Yet, I am torn about the fact that I am the only person arrested by ICE in August who has not killed or raped anyone. I might be the only person arrested by them at all: In each new jail, I am the only prisoner. Long corridors of empty cells. Gleaming 2026 SUVs in the parking lot. Agents on steroids in virgin tactical gear. They’ve spent the money. But I don’t think they’ve done much deporting.

Well-connected friends confirm a few days later that this theatrically cruel performance is my punishment for turning on Trump. On air with Candace Owens, I’d accused him of betrayal, cowardice, and capitulation to warmongering Israeli psychopaths.

Like it or not, this makes me a political prisoner, a persecuted human rights icon. I am Mahatma Gandhi. I am Nelson Mandela. I’m not exactly sure who Aung San Suu Kyi is, and can’t be bothered to look it up, but, yes, I am him too.

They keep moving me to keep ahead of my lawyers, who, when they call, are given the name of wherever we just left. I am handed a note and told it’s where I am being taken next; this is a lie. I am promised a phone call, a nurse, medication, a chance to be heard by a judge. All lies. Twenty-four hours without food. Longer without sleep.

No sign of my lawyer. But – of course! – there is a photographer. He, at least, has been given truthful directions. I mean to stare into his lens with defiance and stoicism, but I am fat and covered in filth and stains and drool and I am crying and even border czar Tom Homan can’t bring himself to tweet this one. But he does go on on television to say I have “had my due process.”

As ever, my critics fail to meet the moment. Laura Loomer, who is not a Congresswoman thanks to me, took credit for my bruises, proclaiming “a great day for America.” I will not be cruel about her; I do not think she is well. Ben Shapiro, citing the wrong visa class – because he is stupid – wondered how I ever got into the States, since it has “plenty of nut jobs” already. Ben has written five New York Times bestsellers. I have ghostwritten 17. Let us not punch down.

Nonetheless, I stand exposed as a hypocrite who got what he asked for. I wanted millions indiscriminately deported, and said so – loudly, and in worse words. You have me.

Monday, London. For years I told people I’d never come back to the UK “because I don’t speak Arabic.” It is time to learn. I have been back at work for two days. I manage lawyers, which can be done from anywhere with good enough wifi and bad enough grievances. So things are mostly OK.

But then, last night, I trip on the stairs – nothing in itself, I am clumsy. But something in me, as I fall, remembers being shoved down steps. I reach for the graze on my forehead, and weep for an hour like an old woman.

Without my rosary, I prayed on the plane with open hands instead. That still works. So do motions to reopen. I’ll be fine. I had a frightening weekend; this will be an expensive few months. I will make it home eventually. I miss my Bengals more than any American person. There, see, still a git. But not so cruel as America, still wedded, at age 250, to brazen corruption and barbarism.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: adioshomo; dontcomeback; illegalprimadonna; milo; persecution; yiannopoulos

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1 posted on 09/02/2026 5:59:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Help! Help! I’m being repressed!”


2 posted on 09/02/2026 5:59:45 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

“Now you see the violence inherent in the system.”

So, either there is a conspiracy to trap him and deport him (why?), or he has been specifically avoiding all communication and contact and information, but then expected to just fly in and blissfully do whatever.

Seems like there is a lot more to this than what i just read.


3 posted on 09/02/2026 6:03:34 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: z3n

I just finished watching his interview with Piers Morgan, 3 minutes ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pSX84h9K8


4 posted on 09/02/2026 6:05:10 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: SeekAndFind

I am Mahatma Gandhi. I am Nelson Mandela. I am Adolf Hitler.


5 posted on 09/02/2026 6:05:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The sooner the UK mooslims have their way with Milo, the better.


6 posted on 09/02/2026 6:05:56 AM PDT by thefactor
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He had plenty of time to become a US citizen or at least renew his visa. I always found him annoying anyways.


7 posted on 09/02/2026 6:06:32 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: dfwgator

🤣🤣🤣🤣

That soooo fits.


8 posted on 09/02/2026 6:07:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, )
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To: SeekAndFind

This could be a case of malicious compliance from the agency. Perhaps its also a set of administrative mistakes. There might be some office level bureaucrat who sees some set of advantages in going after Milo.

But why was his forwarding address not to his new location?


9 posted on 09/02/2026 6:07:50 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe he got himself deported on purpose because he was hungry for notoriety.


10 posted on 09/02/2026 6:10:56 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: Bayard

He is not under any obligation to tell the truth


11 posted on 09/02/2026 6:11:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Bayard

A forwarding address expires, yet people can continue sending to it for years.


12 posted on 09/02/2026 6:14:54 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: SeekAndFind
“You must have pissed someone off.”

Yeah. I'd say.

13 posted on 09/02/2026 6:21:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (TDS: Trump Deification Syndrome)
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To: SeekAndFind
--- "Milo Yiannopoulos: I am a persecuted human rights icon"

Translation: I am an egotistical jackass, and will align with whoever clicks on my sites and links and all, and, like other "icons" I am unimportant to most people. So-o-o-o, please notice me, please, please, please. It's my business, after all! Quite the "influencer."

14 posted on 09/02/2026 6:21:24 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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RE: Maybe he got himself deported on purpose because he was hungry for notoriety.

This dude has courted controversy throughout his life.

As a kid, he was expelled from the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury. He attended the University of Manchester but dropped out before graduating; he then attended Wolfson College, Cambridge, but was expelled.

He was banned from Twitter for online harassment and then banned from Facebook permanently.

I don’t know why Breitbart News employed him as its editor, but he was eventually fired when video clips circulated of him stating that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults could be “perfectly consensual” and positive experiences for adolescents.

He has also worked with Marjorie Taylor Greene, the antisemite Nick Fuentes and yeah, even Kanye West.


15 posted on 09/02/2026 6:22:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I think this guy is a total tool but I do worry a little that he is not being treated fairly. “Persecuted” is a strong word but treated less fairly than others? Probably. That shouldn’t be happening.


16 posted on 09/02/2026 6:23:59 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
I think this guy is a total tool but I do worry a little that he is not being treated fairly. “Persecuted” is a strong word but treated less fairly than others? Probably. That shouldn’t be happening.

How was he treated unfairly? He was an illegal, and was swiftly deported. Other people are put in detention for months.

17 posted on 09/02/2026 6:25:44 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: SeekAndFind

“I’m sorry, Oblio, but the law is the law, and you are pointless.”


18 posted on 09/02/2026 6:26:10 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s/)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would need to know who he is before I can give a crap, then probably still won’t.


19 posted on 09/02/2026 6:29:09 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

RE: do worry a little that he is not being treated fairly

Ok, According to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, Milo had legally entered the United States on 14 May 2019 through New York City but overstayed, and was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on 22 July 2026 after failing to appear at his immigration hearing.

If true, shouldn’t he be deported?


20 posted on 09/02/2026 6:31:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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