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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George Galloway is well-known around these parts, and not in a good way.
Yeah, I know. It’s gotta stop.
” and convicted sex offender.” Correct or not?”
That’s what the government says. The government also despises him. Government let all of Epstein’s guests slide. It’s probably a lie.
Passports were not even required until 1952. The right to travel was not even a question. It was so normal it was not even enumerated.
He's a pedo piece of sh*t, somehow resurrected by the Ukraine War.
That show is mostly a rabid Israel-bash fest.
If it is true that the government did this to him by bureaucratic fiat without due process, then it may be wise to reassess the veracity and validity of Mr. Ritter’s previous convictions. A government willing to violate the rights of its critics forfeits its own credibility and legitimacy to pass judgement upon them.
I wonder if it was because of the position he held in the military.
I knew someone who served who, when he was done with his enlistment, had a list of countries he could not go to for a number of years because of security concerns, and his own safety, because of his knowledge of equipment that he worked with.
It was classified and the reasoning was that he would be in danger from those who wanted that knowledge.
Could it be something like that?
I am just stating what the law says. The law may be unjust but it is what it is. Much like the sovereign citizen movement. They may be 100% correct but the in the end the only opinion that matters is the Supreme Court. Bad law is still law.
If it is a right then passports should be free and customs should not apply to US Citizens on their return home via a port of entry. Doesn’t searching the vehicle or bags of a US citizen crossing back into the US via Canada or Mexico violate the 4th amendment? Doesn’t a customs declaration form violate your 5th amendment rights?
There is a big security conference starting in St Petersburg this week. Judge Napolitano, Scott Ritter and other anti-war with Russia commentators were scheduled to attend. The Judge announced yesterday that he had canceled his own trip (probably so he could keep his passport). Scott Ritter is supposed to be interviewed by the Judge today at Noon on Facebook program “Judging Freedom”. I can’t wait. The tentative title is “On my way to Russia I met Big Brother”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOsW84wYdzg
I was looking forward to the Judging Freedom episode already but I would guess the US State Dept et al will try to squelch it. It is all up to YouTube owned by Google.It is obviously in the can (ready to show). Maybe Tucker will play it if censored, or Tucker could have Scott on to discuss. Ritter’s stated mission was to talk to real Russians and to tell them that American citizens do not want war with them even though the neocons in government keep edging in that direction. Citizen to citizen. But US Deep State stopped him in his tracks.
Charming. But not surprised after reading your page. Very telling who you are.
Ritter has also long been suspected of being recruited by the Soviets “who honey potted him, with a woman he would eventually marry”, U.S. former intelligence officer and Newsweek editor-at-large Naveed Jamali tweeted on Thursday.
Jamali said Ritter met his wife in 1988 while in the Soviet Union doing weapons inspection. His wife Marina Ritter was part of a group of “young girls” introduced to American inspectors.
The New York Times reported that the FBI continously questioned Marina, because the agency believed she was a former KGB agent.
Ritter described the investigation into his wife as “harassment”.
“I am surprized to not see the Zeepers defending the Regime in this matter. After all, Ritter was on his way to Russia Russia Russia.”
They are, by implying that undesirables can be prevented from leaving the US.
“There is a big security conference starting in St Petersburg this week. Judge Napolitano, Scott Ritter and other anti-war with Russia commentators were scheduled to attend”
I believe that Americans are prohibited from attending that conference, as it is in Russia.
” U.S. former intelligence officer and Newsweek editor-at-large Naveed Jamali tweeted on Thursday.”
Thanks, I was looking for a CREDIBLE link, not Newsweek.
Convicted of sex crimes.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-u-n-weapons-inspector-gets-prison-in-internet-sex-act-case
Yes, he is still a nutcase, but how is this justified?
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100% wrong. Canadians were always free to leave. Just a little hard to get back in.
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