Posted on 06/03/2024 6:52:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday.
Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.
“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department’. They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT. “They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”
“Was this done in accordance with the First Amendment, or the Fourth,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the news. The first amendment to the US constitution protects freedom of speech, press and assembly, while the fourth bars the government from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
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Welcome to Communist Amerika, Comrade Ritter.
Technically you only have the right to travel within the jurisdiction of the US. Foreign travel is a privilege.
WE are the (Neo) Marxists now.
Is Ritter still a nutcase?
So is eating.
The Biden Administration is getting bolder. Heaven help us if Biden gets 2nd term.
Thanks for the laugh.
I recall from international law that the reason foreign travel is a privilege is NOT because you can’t leave the country you are in. It’s because no other country is obligated to let you come in.
Do you still swallow everything the captive press tells you like Monica Lewinski?
The Soviet Union had a better system of deal with ‘undesireables’ (meaning people who held the government accountable), as they required EXIT VISAS before one could leave. So you apply, and if it’s turned down (as usually happens), you lose - but no huge show of it, just a letter in the mail.
But in the US, I guess, we wait until the ‘Enemy of the State’, Scott Ritter in this case, has BOARDED THE PLANE, and then make a big show of forcibly removing him from the plane - just to rub salt into the decision that he must not be allowed to leave the US as he is too dangerous of a dissident.
“The Biden Administration is getting bolder. Heaven help us if Biden gets 2nd term.”
I suspect that a lot of FReepers will have to wonder whether we will be allowed to obtain Exit Visas, considering what some of us has posted.
“Technically you only have the right to travel within the jurisdiction of the US. Foreign travel is a privilege.”
I did not realize I lived in a prison?
I can drive to the Mexican border or Canadian border at any time without asking anyone in the US gov’t for permission
I wound need/want permissions from the country I want to enter.
Yes, if you’re an opponent of Biden and his regime, your privileges, and even rights, get revoked by his Goon Squad.
Flew in from Miami Beach, B.O.A.C
Didn’t get to bed last night
On the way, the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the U.S.S.R
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the U.S.S.R
Been away so long, I hardly knew the place
Gee, it’s good to be back home
Leave it ‘til tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey, disconnect the phone
I’m back in the U.S.S.R
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the U.S
Back in the U.S
Back in the U.S.S.R
Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind
Oh, come on!
Woo! (Hey)
Woo! (Yeah)
Woo! (Yeah)
Hell, yeah
Hey, I’m back in the U.S.S.R
You don’t know how lucky you are, boys
Back in the U.S.S.R
Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind
Oh, show me ‘round your snow-peaked mountains way down south
Take me to your daddy’s farm
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I’m back in the U.S.S.R, hey
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the U.S.S.R
Oh, let me tell you, honey
Hey, I’m back
I’m back in the U.S.S.R
Hey, it’s so good to be home
Yeah, back in the U.S.S.R
“Please cite US code or a US court decision for this “privilege.””
I’m thinking that when a thread is very active, some of the Operative lose track as to which country they’re posting for.
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