Jörg, Dein Einsatz:
"Two Brits visiting Los Angeles who joked on Twitter that they were
going to "destroy America," and "dig... Marilyn Monroe up" from her
grave, a joke from the American TV show "Family Guy," were deported
from the U.S. last week for their tweets.
The Sun reports that Leigh Van Bryan, 26, who wrote the offending
tweets, and his friend Emily Bunting, 24, were detained by Homeland
Security on arrival in L.A., questioned for five hours, handcuffed, put
in a van with illegal immigrants, and then held overnight.
While they were detained, Bryan and Bunting tried to assure U.S.
officials that they were simply joking, arguing that "destroying" was a
word that simply means partying in Britain. "We just wanted to have a
good time on holiday. That was all Leigh meant in his tweets," Bunting
told the Sun."
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Im Gegensatz zu manch anderem hier halte ich Amerika zwar nicht für
gefährlich und böse, aber bisweilen scheint es, als ob grob die Hälfte
der Menschen, denen man dort so begegnen kann, hierzulande als geistig
schwer behindert gälten und in geschlossenen Anstalten aufbewahrt
würden. Die, die nicht bei der Homeland Security arbeiten, betreuen
offenbar großenteils helpdesks.
Übrigens, das Argument von Birgitta Jónsdóttir ist natürlich Blödsinn:
"Many users do not understand that they are giving away all control of
their web usage... Personal data can be used against you...!This is
very dangerous to those, like me, who are activists, journalists and
researchers. It equally endangers the merely curious."
Wenn ich etwas unter meinem Namen _veröffentliche_, dann muß ich
selbstverständlich zu den Inhalten und Folgen stehen. Anonyme Schreiben
galten in jeder zivilisierten Kultur als zutiefst verwerflich, bei
Hitler, bei Stalin und jetzt bei uns gelten sie als normal. Schlimm
sind nur die Zensurbehörden, die unfähig sind, irgendwelche Inhalte zu
erfassen und mit weniger Hirn als Pawlowsche Hunde allein auf
Schlüsselbegriffe ansprechen.
Übrigens auf Forbes:
"If I might make a small suggestion to whoever is administering the
revenues from the Tourist Promotion Act. You know, the $15 that every
traveller to the US now pays and the revenues from which are supposed
to be used to promote the US as a place to visit?
If I were you I d draw a few thousand out of the account, shout at the
London Enbassy until they issue visas, stick the pair in business seats
on a flight and then hire them a limo to swan around LA in."
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