Obama bans British teenager from the US for calling him "a prick"

[Matt Collins]

British teenager Luke Angel has been banned from the US for sending an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity. The 17-year-old says he was drunk when he sent the mail and doesn't understand what the big deal is. "I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a p***k. It was silly -- the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few," he said. The FBI contacted local police who in turn confronted Luke and let him know that the US Department of Homeland Security didn't think his email was funny. "The police came and took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever. I don't really care but my parents aren't very happy," Angel said.


SOURCE:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09...Email?from=rss

[Humanae Libertas]

Just like Britain, we ban people because of speech. Yay for the Land of the Free!

[Dr.3D]

Wow, so now the president can act like a monarch and ban people from the country, just because they insulted him.

Good thing the lad didn't elaborate even more, perhaps the monarch would have said, "off with his head."

[BuddyRey]

Can he actually do that? Seems like there would have to be some sort of trial first.

[Stary Hickory]

Geez what a prickish thing to do I guess he really is a prick. Reminds of John Adams and the krap he tried to pull.

[BuddyRey]

All the authoritarian leftists are gloating over this at HuffPo.

htt p://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/uk-teen-banned-from-ameri_n_716471.html

Wow...just...wow! Sometimes I can't frickin' believe these people...or that I used to be one of them.

[QueenB4Liberty]

Wow. You'd think this was satire.

[Michael Landon]

I wonder what would happen if a U.S. citizen sent that same e-mail? Would that citizen be exiled from the States? Thoughts?

- ML

[JoshLowry]

All the authoritarian leftists are gloating over this at HuffPo.

htt p://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/uk-teen-banned-from-ameri_n_716471.html

Wow...just...wow! Sometimes I can't frickin' believe these people...or that I used to be one of them.

I only saw 2 idiots out of 15 comments. I wouldn't paint them all with such a harsh label.

[Agorism]

He insulted the king!