Re:Denied Entry
by jacquesm on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:16PM
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Someone asked me today when I was going to visit the US again. I told them never. That is, not until this madness stops. The US now treats citizens from allied countries as enemies and that's just plain rude and not called for. There isn't a shred of evidence that any of this has made America safer in any way and it would be pretty easy to argue that it has made America less safe on account of pissing off large numbers of people both inside and outside the USA.
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Re:Denied Entry
by jonnybgood on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:37AM
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> The US now treats citizens from allied countries as enemies and that's just plain rude and not called for.
Alliances are made between governments, not the citizenry. What if the US thinks there's a threat to it within the citizenry of an allied country? What should the US do?
> What should the US do?
Focus on the threat, not ban the whole bloody country or make all travelers from that country suffer somehow. Really this is a totally disproportional response. Note that this specific individual was blocked whereas you hypothesize a general threat, the two have nothing to do with each other unless you're aware of the Curl author being up to no good.
If a "travel ban" or "muslim ban" or (apparently) "guy who coded curl ban" was actually in any way effective, by any yardstick, at reducing danger to the US, then perhaps some action would be warranted. But this is completely hypothetical. I think history will judge Trump and his apologists very harshly.