From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: It's escalating...
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 18:11:24 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-05-12 18:08, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-05-13, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> ...and none of you will care until it impacts you directly:
>>
>> 'Border goons detain US citizen for having an opinion
>>
>> As reported in UserMag, CBP agents detained Hasan Piker â a popular
>> progressive streamer and a New Jersey-born US citizen â when he flew
>> back from France this weekend. The authorities in Chicago questioned him
>> for two hours about his political views, Twitch bans, and his interviews
>> while abroad.'
>>
>> <https://boingboing.net/2025/05/12/border-goons-detain-us-citizen-for-having-an-opinion.html>
>>
>> 'The agent asked about his purpose in Chicago (a speaking engagement at
>> the University of Chicago journalism school) and his occupation (Twitch
>> streamer). The questions then shifted to his streams, asking if he
>> discussed current events, drama, the internet, and specifically "the
>> news." The agent then inquired about "the war" and "Trump." Piker found
>> these questions unusual, stating, "I literally straight up told him,
>> 'Why are you asking me this? What does this have to do with anything?'"'
>>
>> So apparently, "free speech" is only free if Trump's junta likes what
>> you say!
>
> wow!
> How come you libtards were silent when the DOJ was spying on the Catholic Church?
Cite, please!
> Or school board meetings?
Same!
>
> Give me a break.
Nope.
I really won't.
This was a US citizen, detained for what he wrote and thought.