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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Is the plan to have Ritter end up in prison somewhere outside of the US and end up dead like Gonzalo Lira?
I suggest everyone watch the 1984 movie “Threads” a Brit film.
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Foreign travel is a privilege extended by the given foreign country not by the authority of the U.S. government to extend or deny.
Why are you sticking up for a pedophile? Seems beneath you.
Define serious damage. It is an arbitrary term. Also does that right to international travel extend to other countries accepting you? Does an airline have to allow you to board? What if you are a convicted felon?
Could not have happened to a nicer guy. His wife is his KGB handler.
He was going over to try and convince the Russians to not use nuclear weapons no matter the circumstances.
He has been over before and although I really didn’t like what he displayed in that trip, it was his right to do it.
So...there we have it.
Don’t listen to him a lot but did see his proclaiming the reason for this trip.
“Has less to do with traveling abroad than where he is traveling to.”
I know there’s a prohibition against traveling to North Korea, Iran, and maybe Cuba. Does that also now apply to Russia?
Ritter’s objective isn’t peace and it isn’t defending the US constitution. He made it pretty clear he is a globalist.
Another item people forget is Ritter found a children’s prison in Iraq and decided not to report it.
He has been acting kind of whacked ever since that find, maybe Primakov has pictures...
“Why are you sticking up for a pedophile? Seems beneath you.”
Why are you sticking up for the TOP PRIORITY of a pedophile (Biden)? Seems beneath you.
why are you being a troll?
I’m just trying to figure out what sections of the US Code PREVENTS people who behave in strange ways from boarding flights to other countries.
“His wife is his KGB handler.”
Link please.
Well, that makes sense, and is why one needs a visa from that country.
I may not agree with it, but it is true.
They have to have a valid reason; Such as: Criminal Records, Tax Debt, Fraudulent Or Illegal Acquisition, Revocation Request by Law Enforcement As A Flight Risk Currently Under Investigation or Prosecution, court Orders Same Issue As Previously Mentioned, Misuse or Alteration, Not A U.S. National Or Their Certificate Of Citizenship Or Certificate Of Naturalization Has Been Cancelled
So, is he a National Security Risk?
But that is quite different than the claim of it being a privilege to be able to travel that you made. Their has to be valid reason. I suggest that it was pulled because he is outspoken critic of US involvement in the Ukraine/Russia conflict. We are living in a communist nation under these clowns now in power, people just do not want to admit that reality.
A very strange story in that family.
It’s possible that they planted more kiddie porn on Scott’s computer, and they’re going after that.
The Banana Republic strikes again.
Are the peons concerned? No, they have NFL football, NBA Basketball and medical marijuana. To take and keep their minds off what is happening.
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