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Baltimore? Detroit? a visit to the People's Daily newsroom? Rev.Wright's for dinner? Harvard? The Peoples Democratic Republic of UC enclaves? Havana? MSNBC?
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The Roseburg Beacon publisher David Jaques says Obama is not welcome after his comments politicizing the shooting death of nine people at Umpaqua Community College.
It would be good if law--abiding Constitutionalists everywhere took the same position with regards to law breakers such as Bloomberg, Obama, Soros and Hillary. Put out the unwelcome sign.
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by the end of his term he'll likely not be welcome anywhere.
Doubtfull - by reading some of the facebook postings I've seen he could rape a 5-YO boy on the front lawn of the Whitehouse in broad daylight and they will still love him and think of him as the greatest thing in the history of the world. And if you dare object YOUR RACCCIST!!!
[ARSTECHNICA] Stockton, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Mayor Anthony R. Silva attended a recent mayor's conference in China, but his return trip took a bit longer than usual. At the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... International Airport (SFO) this week, agents with the Department of Homeland Security detained Silva and confiscated his personal cell phone among other electronics. According to comments from the mayor, that may not even be the most alarming part.
"Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property," Silva told SFGate. "In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices."
The mayor's attorney, Mark Reichel, told SFGate that Silva was not allowed to leave the airport without forfeiting his passwords. Reichel was not present for Silva's interaction with the DHS agents, either. The mayor was told he had "no right for a lawyer to be present" and that being a US citizen did not "entitle me to rights that I probably thought," according to the paper.
As of Friday, Silva had not yet received his property from the SFO detention. SFGate reports Reichel contacted the US Attorney's Office in Sacramento, but they would not comment on whether they still had the mayor's possessions. The paper also reached out to a spokesperson at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but that office also refused comment. (Ars has reached out to the mayor's office for any new information, and we'll update this story accordingly if we hear back.)
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If they got the password through threat or coercion, anything found would become inadmissible as evidence in court. May take some appeals, but there's enough 4th Amendment precedent to uphold such a ruling.
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Stockton is a currently corrupt bankrupt shithole. Who paid for this punk to take a trip to China?
there seems to be more to this story , like an ongoing investigation of him. The search and password demand may be entirely legal: Legal rulings from more than 40 years ago found that border searches are protected by “a narrow exception to the Fourth Amendment prohibition against warrantless searches without probable cause” and “the reasonableness of a search or seizure depends on the totality of the circumstances, including the scope and duration of the deprivation.”
Two years ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that for law enforcement to conduct a forensic examination of a returning international traveler’s computer, it must show a “reasonable suspicion, a modest requirement in light of the Fourth Amendment.”
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If he used fingerprints to secure his phone than they can compel him to open it. Password, I would demand my right of habeas corpse and put it before a judge. The first thing that I would ask the judge is to allow me access to legal counsel.
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I learned that most of your constitutional rights don't apply at the border but:
"Silva was not allowed to leave the airport without forfeiting his passwords."
He's an American citizen, right? Sounds like illegal coercion to me.
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Rules from a 200-plus year old document apparently don't apply to the Homeland [In]Security - at least under Obama.
He should have claimed to be an Illegal Alien from Iran and he would probably have been given an police escort to wherever he wanted.
Funny how if this had happened under Bush the media would have been up in arms.
#6
Certainly he could afford an external hard drive or use drive to hold his illegal stuff. Is the mayor really that stupid or lazy to carry incriminating evidence with him out of the USA?
h/t Instapundit
In a press briefing Friday, President Barack Obama said that Russian President Vladimir Putin entered Syria "out of weakness" and called his actions against anti-Assad forces "counterproductive."
Obama echoed the White House narrative that Russia was forced to enter Syria because the Assad regime, a long-time Kremlin client state, is in danger of collapse.
"Mr. Putin had to go into Syria not out of strength but out of weakness because his client Mr. Assad was crumbling and it was insufficient for him simply to send them arms and money. Now he's got to put in his own planes and his own pilots," Obama said.
In an attempt to rebuke the popular notion that Putin is a mastermind who the White House is scrambling to keep up with, Obama reminded the audience that Russia is part of a three-member coalition while the United States leads 60 nations. And has Gay Marriage. Oh, how millions of oppressed Russians yearn for freedoms like these!
#5
Mr. Obama and his camp's objective is, and long has been, to forge a post-presidential political machine. That's where the money and power will be, who the Democratic party will follow, and who the Western elites will come to.
Everything said and done is to advance that goal. Retain and reinforce the current "progressive" voter base. Cultivate the potentials. Line up more donors, and convince the doubters that your machine had better be the one they're donating to.
Placate or buy off the rubes and the unbelievers. Easy enough to do in D.C. and with help of the media, perhaps a bit harder and uglier outside the Beltway.
Everything that doesn't advance that goal gets ignored, or dismissed out of hand, or trash-talked, or neutralized one way or another.
Oh, and hope nothing catastrophic happens before 2017.
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I don't think he understands the meaning of weakness. Or .aybe he's dyslexic.
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Oh, and hope nothing catastrophic happens before 2017. Posted by Pappy
Yes indeed! Manufactured crisis and strategic diversion are the regime's bread and butter. Something worthy of much prayer, even for those who pray very little or seldom if at all.
#8
The strong horse takes off with a quickness.
Sez Preezy: "He runs out of weakness!"
Sez Kremlinite Pharaoh,
"Cliche Caballero
Will only beat me at the Preakness."
#9
More existential or strategic reasons for Mama Russia than just saving ally Baby Assad from collapse.
Putin doesn't want the ISIS/ISIL on two or more of Russia's flanks, NOT in Islamist-pressured Neo-Ottoman Turkey, nor in AFPAK building up to strike Central Asia + Russian Far East.
Also good for giving Russia-led SCO-CSTO = Eurasian Customs Union both stability + mucho international credibility + kudos.
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