I know you feel the need for security. I know you have to protect yourselves and your people. But his is getting really bad. Most South Africans know this person mentioned in the article below. He is agood man, known all over the world, and a great critic of terrorism. Why throw him out? Why give him a visa and then revoke it when he arrives? Why not give any reasons? On the radion here this morning, the Us Ambasador said that he does not haveto give the reasons this man was refused entry.

This, I am sorry to say, is going to far

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He does not have an automatic right to enter our country. We are not obligated to give reasons why. It may be he is associated with terrorists. By revealing all of our reasons we know we may tip off terrorists to things that we don't want them to know or how we are obtaining some of our knowledge. Much of this is classified. Keeping him out seems pretty reasonable to me.

Jafar Panahi, celebrated Iranian film director was held like a criminal and deported as he was (wait for it!) on his way to receive the 'Freedom of Expression Award' from The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures for his film, 'The Circle'.

Of course, Kiarostami had already suffered the same treatment. Not big on cultural exchanges, are they, these 'free speechers'?

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Nawbut, I waited for it and it certainly was worth while: The Freedom of Expression award!

Bush had driven America into the world of George Orwell's 1984.

Democrats warned and Republicans s(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ed and snided but it has started to happen -- the laws meant to stop terrorism are now being used to suppress freedom.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Should we even be letting in people from terrorist countries? Are liberals weak on Visa security too?

And we shouldn't stop there, either. We ought to be rounding up every last Syrian, Iranian, Afgani, Iraqi, and North Korean American we can find and throw them all into concentration camps. And that's not enough, either. We have to declare Bush dictator for life, strip ourselves of all our dangerous civil liberties, and let Bush take complete control of our entire lives. Then we have to keep ourselves in a constant of warfare, because as the old saying goes, "War is Peace."


Anyway, I find it completely bizarre that such a man who is associated with so many humanitary organizations would be deported. Perhaps it was a fluke, a case of mistaken identity by an inexperienced officer, I don't know. For all any of us know, maybe he really was involved with some terrorist organization. It's a crazy world we're in right now, and without more information on this particular matter, I can neither condemn nor praise the US for this action.

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The views expressed in the above post are not necessarily those of Joker and/or any of his affiliates.

. "You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

Lord Acton's axiom sure sounds great coming out of Dems, until you realize how brutally the Dems suppress free speech on college campuses, with insidious Politically Correct nonsense.

Look here in this forum. If it's immoral, unforgivable, and offensively wrong---Dems support it. And then they also try to silence those with whom they disagree. Murder your kid? We'll send a taxi to get you there faster---across state lines and without parental permission. Parents have no rights---just ask the scummunist left.

Odd, isn't it, how many Dems remained silent when I wanted to silence the racists here. It was the non-racists who argued the most about my attempt at censorship.

I tried it the Dem way and it failed. I was absolutely not surprised.

Dems control higher education---their single greatest and most catastrophic failure. If your kid can't read or write---thank the Dem teacher who passed him on rather than actually teach him.

If you want America to fail---elect a Dem.

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I'm sure the authorities here that revoked his visa and escorted him out know more than you do. You say----everyone in your country likes him. But that doesn't mean they know everything about him.

Occassionally someone will commit a horrendous crime and his family will say, "He was a good family man; everybody liked him." Point being......even one's family can often be fooled. The authorities have a reason or else they wouldn't have done it.

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

Now you see the harm in overclassification.
Who knows what the reason is. Most likely it's a mistake. But it might not be... or it might have a purpose that's utterly ridiculous.
We can't know and chances are no one will even look into it... because it's all secret.
When an administration has a track record of classifying EVERYTHING, even getting caught on occasion classifying some really petty things, when funny things happen people get suspicious.
Who knows whether they have a good reason, a 1984ish reason, or (what I think most likely) a stupid bureaucratic mistake reason?
The point is when EVERYTHING is secret it makes us all suspicious. It endangers the very legitimacy of government.

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That information is classified and to be given only on a need-to-know basis...

And I do not need to know.

I appreciate that you don't condemn the authorities and the Bush administration for this and that you don't want to stone everyone indiscriminately. I just think it is a legitimate question whether we should be letting in persons from countries who openly support terrorism when we are at war with terrorism. Of course this would not appy if they were fugitives from those countries.

Entering our country is not a right but a privilege. Is it sensible to be letting all these people into our country from countries who hate us, support terrorism and would like to see us go up in a mushroom cloud? Does this question really sound that radical to you?