I’m having some friends over for a poker tournament. I asked each one to raise a hand if they think “anti-Trump comments” was the real reason the French guy was barred. Here’s the result:
Posted on 03/21/2025 5:10:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig
Members of the punk rock band UK Subs have said they were denied entry and detained in the US, according to accounts from the band themselves.
Bassist Alvin Gibbs shared details of the incident in a Facebook post on Wednesday, which comes amid widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US, including a French scientist who said he was barred because of anti-Donald Trump comments he had made.
Gibbs, along with bandmates Marc Carrey and Stefan Häublein, were deported back to the UK following their detainment. Only vocalist Charlie Harper had been allowed entry. Harper ended up playing the band’s scheduled show in Los Angeles with a group of stand-in musicians.
He recounted how after he landed at the LA airport with his partner, he was told he would be questioned after being flagged. He was informed the flagging was for two reasons: first, he was told he had an incorrect visa, but he was also told that there was another reason that the agents would not disclose to him.
“I can’t help but wonder whether my frequent, and less than flattering, public comments regarding their president and his administration played a role – or perhaps I’m simply succumbing to paranoia,” he said
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Ping
Sounds like some malicious compliance going on.
If people hate us so much, they don’t need to come here and make money off us.
free speech can have consequences.
Words mean something.
Yeah. The incorrect visa had nothing to do with it. These clowns are full of themselves.
In the UK they’d get arrested for dirting Starmer, so they have to dirt Trump online to keep their bonafides I guess. Johnny Rotten is a conservative and Joey Ramone (RIP) was.
I’m having some friends over for a poker tournament. I asked each one to raise a hand if they think “anti-Trump comments” was the real reason the French guy was barred. Here’s the result:
LOL!
I have noticed that several punk performers have, or have developed conservative or strong libertarian leanings. Most aren’t public about it. I suspect it has something to do with taxes. jmho.
Joey Ramone wrote a song to Maria Bartiromo.
https://youtu.be/AW5t2mhEj4Q?feature=shared
I hung out with The Damned, backstage, after one of their shows in Hong Kong years back. Awesome concert.
...barred because of anti-Donald Trump comments he had made.
Perhaps, like everyone else being banned, its due to support of terrorist and totalitarian globalist groups.
WTF is a pro big government punk band anyway? Henry Rollins type poseurs.
Why should we allow mouthy foreign a-holes into our nation?
Pound sand, limeys!
CHARLIE HARPER===SHEEN==2 1/2 MEN
Ha This is the first punk band I ever saw around 1980-81 and at CBGBs in New York city. They started playing and I thought a big fight had broken out, but it was slam dancing, today known as moshing.
Precisely.
Incorrect visa.
Pull out another one.
Maybe it’s because your music sucks.
L
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