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Kicked out of the US over a twitter Joke.

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  • #62
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    RichieC wrote: »
    Freddie bends over backwards to defend ridiculous actions by the US. my bet he is american pretending to be irish.

    Still wearing the 1960s Che G T-Shirt Richie?:D

    LOL, touche, frederick. Touche.


  • #63
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    I would say that's terrible and OTT
    but what you put on Twitter is being publicly published with your name to it, just because it's not in print doesn't mean it doesn't matter
    and also I don't mind because he looks like a poncy twonk who was saying ****e, if he was standing up for what he believed in [that wasn't hate] fine.


  • #64
    DB21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    Failing to see the problem. Stupid person makes stupid tweet which could be misconstrued. Stupid person gets told to f**k off back home as a result of his idiotic action.


  • #65
    TroikaBox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭TroikaBox


    Idiots. You don't post **** like that under your own name and not expect the homeland security of one of the most paranoid countries in the world to hand your ass to you on a plate. I can't say I feel sorry for them.


  • #66
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    To be fair, while I have thought on occasion the Americans are over the top with their rules and regulations, I don't think any of us could really blame them after what happened on 9/11.

    Imagine the same thing happening here in Ireland......would we ever completely trust anyone again?


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  • #67
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    To be fair, while I have thought on occasion the Americans are over the top with their rules and regulations, I don't think any of us could really blame them after what happened on 9/11.

    Imagine the same thing happening here in Ireland......would we ever completely trust anyone again?
    We have had a few terrorist attacks in Ireland, Audrey.


  • #68
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    To be fair, while I have thought on occasion the Americans are over the top with their rules and regulations, I don't think any of us could really blame them after what happened on 9/11.

    Imagine the same thing happening here in Ireland......would we ever completely trust anyone again?

    About three years ago I got off a boat and strolled out onto the street and into a taxi in liverpool. England.


  • #69
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    We have had a few terrorist attacks in Ireland, Audrey.

    3,000 died over 30-40 years. And think how het up we get over it.

    They lost that many in one day.


  • #70
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    Temptamperu wrote: »
    We have had a few terrorist attacks in Ireland, Audrey.

    3,000 died over 30-40 years. And think how het up we get over it.

    They lost that many in one day.

    You cannot expect to act as the US do on the world stage and not be hit with blowback. Even the pentagon acknowlege this. Will it change their ways? fk no. Terror attacks on the "homeland" are great agenda setters.


  • #71
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    RichieC wrote: »
    You cannot expect to act as the US do on the world stage and not be hit with blowback. Even the pentagon acknowlege this. Will it change their ways? fk no. Terror attacks on the "homeland" are great agenda setters.

    Yeah, I suppose that justifies it Richie.:rolleyes:


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  • #72
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    It's actually you doing the justifying here. Gods it's like debating a plank.


  • #73
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    The pair were held by armed guards and quizzed for five hours before being handcuffed

    I wouldn't mind putting Emily in handcuffs and eh, AHEM, well ye know, giving her a right good interrogation. I'd make her sweat! ;)


  • #74
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    My name is URL wrote: »
    What a miserable looking pair of eejits

    Well, they're hardly gonna look happy about it, are they? :pac:


  • #75
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    So the US homeland security has certain words flagged to show up. I would have expected that, I'd also imagine the Irish government is doing the very same. Don't really get what the big deal is..unfortunate couple of tweets


  • #76
    doomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 490 ✭✭doomed


    May I take this opportunity to say what a wonderful country the US is and to say a big Irish hello to everyone in law enforcement.


  • #77
    Run_to_da_hills
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    doomed wrote: »
    May I take this opportunity to say what a wonderful country the US is and to say a big Irish hello to everyone in law enforcement.
    That won't get anywhere, here's how you word it. "May I take this opportunity to say what great crack the US is and to say a big Irish hello to everyone in law enforcement" :p.


  • #78
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Brill: They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you.

    It's a brave new world out there.

    At least it'd better be.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qznsf0i1wQ


  • #79
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    They do a lot more than that, businesses were advised by the EU to transmit all communications in an encrypted form due to concerns about interception by the Echelon program. Just basically assume every single email, message, phone call, facebook or boards post, anything sent over an electronic medium is wide open to security analysts.
    Including this thread. Hi Mr. Analyst?


  • #80
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    No, but it is a 1st amendment violation, surely?
    Nope.. well for one, he wasn't even in the US when he said it, or a US citizen. For the other, nobody infringed on his right to say "I'm going to go destroy America", Homeland Security basically just exercised it's authority to say 'yeah no, you aren't welcome.'

    In addition there are limits to free speech, such as incitement to violence, or prime examples such as yelling out "Fire!" in a crowded theater, or "Bomb!" on an airplane.


  • #81
    Mr. Analyst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Mr. Analyst


    Overheal wrote: »
    Including this thread. Hi Mr. Analyst?
    Hi.


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  • #82
    Overheal
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    Mr. Analyst wrote: »
    Hi.
    Sup Doc?


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Sup Doc?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY5OX7Lim5A


  • #84
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    Brill: They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you.

    It's a brave new world out there.

    At least it'd better

    Oh but dont worry, they need a court order to spy on you if youre a yank.. :rolleyes:

    its us foreigners that dont have the right to privacy... Imagine a brown country was intercepting their private communications... Bunch of fking hypocrites


  • #85
    Overheal
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    RichieC wrote: »
    Oh but dont worry, they need a court order to spy on you if youre a yank.. :rolleyes:

    its us foreigners that dont have the right to privacy... Imagine a brown country was intercepting their private communications... Bunch of fking hypocrites
    No they can monitor any of my public access internet content to their hearts content. The spying you speak of refers to things like wiretaps and putting GPS devices on my car. Essentially they can scour your post history here if they really wanted to, or bloody well have the time.


  • #86
    Run_to_da_hills
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    RichieC wrote: »
    Oh but dont worry, they need a court order to spy on you if youre a yank.. :rolleyes:

    its us foreigners that dont have the right to privacy... Imagine a brown country was intercepting their private communications... Bunch of fking hypocrites
    One of the conditions for keeping up the visa waiver scheme to enter the US was that governments of countries participating including Ireland and most of the EU would be the surrendering of personal details of those wishing to travel to the US, This would include personal records registered to that person.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57945193

    We were Initially lead to believe that the above would help track down terrorists but instead only turns the US into a paranoid kip of a country that less and less ordinary people will want to visit.

    So basically the US authorities would have demanded the details from the UK authorities on these two and ran a buzz word search through them.
    This case is the above coming to the worst and I am sure we will hear plenty more of them down the line.

    At least in the old days if there was an issue over a visa application it was a simple trip to the US Embassy in Ballsbridge to sort out the problem. Today these simple issues could be quite a costly in wasted flights and also possibly land you behind bars in a foreign country.



    .


  • #87
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Im gonna guess my email to then president bush would probably stop my entry..


  • #88
    Father Damo
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    Sindri wrote: »
    , Facebook tracks the sites you visit even if you're logged out. ?


    Is that actually true? Sorry but it sounds like some rubbish you would read on the CT forum by the same retards who believe there were bombs planted in the WTC to bring down the towers, or who had already dediced that the Bin Laden hit had been stage managed within two mins of hearing rumour that it may have happened.

    And that the planes were holograms.

    And that George Bush directed the whole thing using a Gameboy while doing that school reading in Florida.

    And that instead of a mouth Bin Laden had four arses. And a tremendous fear of stamps.

    Even if it was true, wouldnt it hold up half the people entering? Im interested in the news. Ive read a sh1tload on Wikipedia on Al Quaeda figures, Gaddafi, Saddam etc etc. Anyone whos interest in the world extends beyond Jersey Shore and the Sunday Independent, and therefore isnt retarded, probably has as well.


  • #89
    LittleBook
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    Overheal wrote: »
    No they can monitor any of my public access internet content to their hearts content. The spying you speak of refers to things like wiretaps and putting GPS devices on my car. Essentially they can scour your post history here if they really wanted to, or bloody well have the time.
    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    it's monitored by programs which are tuned to watch for certain key phrases or combinations of activities which have been deemed suspicious. If something gets noticed, then you get the guy in the suit looking at it.

    Which means that the only people who will ever be "caught" using this process are numpties like these guys who put the words "destroy" and "America" in one sentence?


  • #90
    MagicSean
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    LittleBook wrote: »
    Which means that the only people who will ever be "caught" using this process are numpties like these guys who put the words "destroy" and "America" in one sentence?

    You just did it there. Dam it, now that I've quoted it I did it as well.


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  • #91
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Father Damo wrote: »
    Is that actually true? Sorry but it sounds like some rubbish you would read on the CT forum

    They might do it for collecting stats and what not and it wouldn't be too difficult to implement either.

    Seems entirely likely imo.


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