If I were in his shoes, I'd be packing up the car for a quick trip across the Canadian border.
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I'd be asking for asylum after getting across the border.
Apparently, they’re starting to deploy CBP agents on exit routes into Canada. It seems they started doing this months ago, with predictably catastrophic impact on Canadian cross-border tourism. But the obvious subtext is that they’re looking to more tightly control the movement of everyone, including US citizens - and in light of NSPM-7, they’re probably going to try going after ideological opponents.
So put your phone in lockdown mode before when crossing any US border, and restart it (and don’t unlock it before you’re through all border controls) so that it’s in BFU mode (this makes it a good bit more technically challenging for them to fuck with your device/scrape it for data/install any surveillance malware on it).
Ain’t no probably about it, Trump and Miller have already announced that they’re using terrorism charges to go after big Democrat donors and organizations.
Almost every phone that doesn’t have security hardware is vulnerable to forensic imaging software even in BFU. Unless you have a Pixel with GrapheneOS you’re better off wiping the phone and restoring it after your traveling is complete.
Well I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure I just caught the scent of fascism wafting in the air now. :|
The fumes have been getting thick
This is terrifying.
The Iron Curtain dropped in a single night. Just saying.
Can't get in. Can't get out.
The only terrifying thing is someone was able to social engineer the airline into canceling his flight after he was through security.
If it was the government he wouldn't have been able to book another flight for the following day and stay at the airport hotel.
Unless they were just doing it to send a message. Like, "we have the power to do this."
Would be a pretty powerful message to send to a scholar on fascism.
It probably would have helped if he hadnt written the op-ed about how he needed to flee the country until after fleeing the country
Like, step one of needing to flee the country is flee the fucking country. Not opining about it to the media before the bags are packed
It's not his fault, mate. It's not normal to have your flight cancelled by the powers that be because you wrote something. He can't be blamed for not thinking of absolutely everything that might go wrong and acting on each.
The bottom line is that he should, by law and rights, have been allowed to travel.
It’s not normal to have your flight cancelled by the powers that be because you wrote something.
Unless you're fleeing a fledgling fascist dictatorship. Then it's to be expected.
Here's where I am right now - you have all these fucking backwoods yokel retard nationalists....excuse, me - PATRIOTS - spouting "IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT HERE THEN LEAVE!!"
This guy does exactly that, and.....someone tried to stop him. Unsuccessfully, but nevertheless, they tried.
This is how you know it's all about control.
This is out of date, he took another flight and already landed in Spain.
The system works.
It’s not. If you read the article it very clearly says that. If you even opened the link the title said he left after being blocked.
Yes, that's my point. The OP is out of date, neither the title nor the first paragraph match the current version of the article.
Considering it was posted yesterday....
This is a lot of fear mongering for no reason.
Someone social engineered the airline and got his tickets cancelled. Then he rebooked his flight and stayed in the airport hotel.
This is a lot of fear mongering for no reason.
Someone social engineered the airline and got his tickets cancelled.
Seems bad.
I am wondering why he didn't just go... Okay, so can I fly standby?