I’m not inclined to travel these days. I don’t like the BCS at TSA. I don’t have the proper “documents.” I confess to being a bit put out by the impact of DEI on the design, assembly, flight, and air traffic control. And I admit to some lingering concern over their response to COVID-19.
It is still safer than hopping into the Family Truckster for an excursion to the grocery store, but until things measurably improve, if I can’t drive there, I’m not going there. And any aspirations to travel to the UK, even if I could, are on indefinite lockdown.
The bastards would arrest me the moment I set foot on their sovereign soil.
“The UK has declared that it will charge and prosecute Americans for their social media posts, written while still in America, if they travel to its borders. The ACLJ has prepared a legal memo detailing the specific laws at play and the danger for Americans. Specifically, it details how your speech on the internet could violate the UK’s broad ‘hate speech’ laws and how you could be arrested as soon as you step foot in the UK for your posts back home,” the ACLJ reports.
“If an American speaks in the United States in a way that UK officials construe as affecting their national interest or even producing substantial effects within the country, even if it’s just a statement about your Christian faith or your political stance, then you could be arrested upon entry to the UK,”
I’ll presume this applies to any bit of land presumably under the wise gaze of His Majesty’s Parliament just to be safe. And isn’t that a sad tale to tell? The nation responsible for free speech has become one of its foremost enemies. But It’s actually worse than just the threat of arrest upon arrival. According to the American Center for Law and Justice, the UK could request extradition so they could then prosecute you for something you posted on Facebook or X.
The UK first makes a request for extradition through diplomatic channels under Article 8 of this treaty, and then there is a judicial process where a magistrate would need to rule on whether a person is extraditable. Following that, the Executive Branch makes the final call on whether to surrender the person.
There is no chance that this would happen under the Trump administration, but imagine a Kamala Harris presidency or someone like her. A Democrat DOJ, in conjunction with the UK, could theoretically leap the First Amendment barrier by allowing the government of England to extradite American citizens on charges of spreading hate or harmful information almost anywhere on the planet.
Just send them a list of names and troublesome speakers’ travel plans, and then slow-walk any diplomatic response to what should be a good deal of domestic outrage. And before you balk at the prospect, consider what the weaponized FBI, CIA, Five Eyes Intelligence Agencies, and handmaiden media have done since 2016.
I’m surprised they didn’t try it while Biden was still moldering away in the Oval Office.
The potential bright side is that four years of vigorous housecleaning at State, the FBI (congrats to Dan Bongino, by the way, getting appointed Deputy Director), CIA, IRS, and everywhere else – along with crimping the fire hose of NGO money that supports all the progressives and their global agendas – might set the swamp creatures back far enough on their heels to make reconstituting is functional deep state a monstrous task.
Something else that would help is for Congress to put the Fed under the president’s direct control (if they didn’t do the better thing and abolish it) so that someone can audit its books. At present, that’s not an option, and a proper purge of Deep State interests isn’t complete without that.
As for the UK, I have to wonder if there’s any chance at all of saving it without a civil war. Everyone wondered that about America, and we chose the ballot box before the ammo box, but Europe is a mess, and despite the veneer, most of its people have a deep-seated historical hatred of each other and would gladly return to a divided Europe given the proper circumstances.
On a related note, the new German Chancellor has prioritized a unified Europe independent of a meddling America. Germany leading a single-minded European state. The rise of intolerance for free speech in the UK and across the continent. That doesn’t concern anyone?
