🐱 Punk singer deported for mocking Trump

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http://teamrock.com/news/2017-08-02/peter-the-test-tube-babies-singer-deported-for-mocking-trump

Peter & The Test Tube Babies singer Peter Bywaters was refused entry to the US late last week for dressing up as president Donald Trump during a tour of Germany in 2016.

He had planned to hook up with his bandmates at the Punk Invasion Festival in Santa Ana, Orange County, California on Saturday. But after landing in San Francisco, Bywaters was taken aside and interrogated for six hours by customs and border protection officers.

They confronted him with photos and videos of himself dressed as Trump from the band’s German Jinx 'Presidential' Tour last year – where the singer also spoke out against the president.

Following the ordeal, Bywaters had his phone and passport confiscated, was finger printed, DNA swabbed, photographed and forced to make a sworn statement before being escorted to his seat on the plane.

He was denied alcohol on the 11-hour flight back to London after being told that it was United Airlines policy to refuse alcohol to deportees. Once he landed back in the UK, his phone and passport were returned.

Bywaters exclusively tells TeamRock: “I had only been there 30 seconds when the customs and border control guard swung his screen round and said: ‘Is this you?’

“There in full view was a video from last year’s German tour with me dressed as Donald Trump smoking a fake joint.

“From there it all went down hill. Six hours later I was forcibly escorted to my seat on the plane.”

He adds: “Oh well, I expect to still be the singer of Peter & The Test Tube Babies by the end of the year. Will Trump still be president by the end of the summer?

“A US tour or festival will never ever happen again!”
 
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Internet War Criminal dijo:
The US Constitution guarantees rights for US citizens. They are not US citizens. So no, it's not.
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It doesn't guarantee anything, it only acts as a restraining order for the government against its citizens.

And we all know how criminals obey restraining orders.

While we're on that subject, that shit's going to be used on citizens eventually. Don't get mad when I say "I told you so."
 
Yeah this dude definitely left out some information when telling his story. While I suspect a visa issue like someone said earlier, my guess would be he or his band sperged enough on social media to get flagged for something. Border patrol agents at one of the busiest airports in the world are not going to piss away six hours just for a guy who dressed up like the president.
 
A Customs and Border Protection official has informed Entertainment Weekly that Peter Bywaters was turned around at SFO for having the wrong visa.

“The claim that he was refused entry to the United States because he mocked the president of the United States, that is absolutely not true,” CBP spokesman Jaime Ruiz said.

Ruiz said that Bywaters tried to enter the U.S. with a visitor’s visa. Because he was performing, he was required to have a P1 Visa. He also confirmed that the CPB has the authority to determine whether an artist’s work is entertainment or freedom of expression, or a legitimate threat to the United States.
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tl;dr FAKE NEWS. And those guessing "visa issue" were right, of course.
 
El Garbage dijo:
tl;dr FAKE NEWS. And those guessing "visa issue" were right, of course.
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Ha!

Quite a few places reported this story but not all of them have followed up with what actually happened. Hell, VICE literally just posted an article six minutes ago and of course they didn't include what happened with the visa.

Before I get into this I would like to say:

Borders suck, free movement rules, people should be able to do what they want!

However. Peter Bywaters, AKA singer of UK punx Peter and the Test Tube Babies, AKA your absolute fucking dad on a proper big one with the lads, says that he was recently refused entry to the USA, essentially because there's a video of him taking the piss out of Donald Trump.
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The article is written by someone who has a BA in English, I shit you not.
 
D.Va dijo:
Ha!

Quite a few places reported this story but not all of them have followed up with what actually happened. Hell, VICE literally just posted an article six minutes ago and of course they didn't include what happened with the visa.



The article is written by someone who has a BA in English, I shit you not.
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Well duh, having a bachelor's in English is a clear sign that you are sufficiently upper class to not care about the consequences behind a "Borders suck, free movement rules, lemme do what I want" mindset.

English degrees have been a magnet for narcissistic tards even before colleges started embracing the tard magnet strategy for getting people to waste their student loans on worthless humanities degrees.
 
escapegoat dijo:
They don't have some mallcop with a printed manifest doing google searches. More than likely he got flagged by some automated process, and the mallcop checked and found that. I mean, does anyone genuinely think Cat Stevens or whatever the fuck he's called now is a threat to national security?
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I don't think "Yusuf Islam" is a threat to national security, but I do think his direct advocacy for murdering Salman Rushdie is sufficient to make him an undesirable alien who can reasonably be excluded from the country.

Making fun of Trump? Not so much. Maybe they had other reasons for it too, though, and just chose a really flimsy and almost embarrassingly silly pretext.

Duke Nukem dijo:
I guess freedom of speech doesn't apply to foreigners here? Sounds kind of hypocritical to me.
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If you're here legally, you could no more criminally be punished for your speech alone than a citizen could. He wasn't here. He was denied entry. There's some question as to what degree the Constitution applies to non-citizens (as opposed to the Bill of Rights for instance the government can still only do what is in its enumerated powers).

It's clear though that in the immigration context, the government can do things to non-citizens that would be completely impermissible to citizens, such as, for instance, setting quotas as to how many immigrants it will take based on national origin, or excluding visitors from certain countries entirely.

If you discriminated between citizens on the basis of national origin without the most compelling of reasons and in the most narrowly tailored manner, you could be violating their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, just as if you had discriminated against them on the basis of religious belief or race or the other very few presumptively suspect classifications.

However, if you are not a citizen, Congress can establish, under its Article I powers, a "uniform rule of naturalization," i.e. decide who gets to become a citizen or not and, for that matter, who is allowed in the country at all. Congress doesn't have to do this, though, and could establish an extremely restrictive rule or outright prohibit non-citizens entirely, without violating the Constitution.

Once someone is here legally, though, some rights vest and they're generally entitled at least to due process before deportation. However, if that were because, for instance, Congress had declared "all citizens of [hostile country] out now," that due process would be limited to actually proving they were citizens of that hostile country in some kind of hearing. They wouldn't be entitled to raise a defense under the Constitution that they were being discriminated against because of national origin.

Many other rights under the Constitution would apply, though. You probably could not be imprisoned without trial (with the exception of the very limited class of unlawful combatants) or in inhumane conditions (under the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment) or enslaved.

So the answer is yes, no, maybe and it depends.
 
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Dude in 1982 the Misfit, Dead Kennedys, Descendants, Bad Brains, the Exploited, Black Flag, X, etc... all at the height of their creativity and almost a decade's worth of punk and protopunk to listen


There was never any reason to listen to peter & the test tube babies
 
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