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Commented on Policy change: future US visits
I completely approve. The most practical way for citizens as a group to slow this down would be if states "protested" Trump's crazy by not paying (their residents') federal taxes; if ruby red Trump America wants to create an American...
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guthrie commented on
Policy change: future US visits
Given what it sounds like things are now, that would count as obstruction and willful withholding of information and result in non-entry to the USA....
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anonemouse commented on
Policy change: future US visits
The only mitigating aspect of this is that the first rule of an intelligence operation is that raw information goes in, but it must never be disclosed (to do so could compromise the operation). Only carefully sanitised, digested reports can be made available to vetted clients. My worry about ICE and CBP and DHS is that they're basically amateur rentacops in comparison with NSA Good news! At least one of those sets of rentacops now much expanded access to the raw take....
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Jean Lamb commented on
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"Every time a house goes off the grid, an oil rig dies." ROTFLMAO!!! I trust that no kittens were harmed in the creation of that post? mark --No, though the cat sleeping on my lap as I type this still resents the Horrible Shots she had to have earlier this week. Glad you enjoyed the phrase, feel free to use it as required....
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Wōdan Shodan commented on
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Do note I've no idea about the character of Ms Zimmelfarb - her name is not exactly auspicious, but her position would suggest she's a 'good egg'. However, do note the hidden dark irony / bitterness. The 'unmentioned' part of the first revolt is that part of the reason that an entire caste was wiped out harks back to Herod (and his purges of dissidents when Big-J was allegedly born) and the rather distasteful bit where a lot of the deaths were internecine. i.e. a mini-civil war kicked off during the Roman siege of Jerusalem. The 'zealots' (this term is...
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Wōdan Shodan commented on
Policy change: future US visits
One might be tempted to make a mirror allusion backwards towards the USA over all that love for a revolt that was actually mostly about a civil war and what they're actually LARPing (and getting with the DeVos appointment and so forth). One might also be tempted to imagine that was the meaning all along. Be wery careful of Messianic Modal Thought Patterns. Who knows? No Romans anymore, or so it's said, but the Royal Gallery is watching. (The Stellar one, well: broken hearts can get mended). ~ Subtle? Well, depends on your Eyes: from this vantage that was a...
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