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applegrove

(118,634 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 03:16 PM Jul 2018

Richard Spencer learns about strong borders, barred from European travel

CASEY MICHEL at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/richard-spencer-is-effectively-barred-from-europe-30b18131d272/

"SNIP........

Richard Spencer, like the rest of his white supremacist cohort, has long advocated the expulsion of unwanted migrants.

He now knows precisely what that feels like.

This week, in a development first flagged by HOPE not hate, a British anti-racism organization, Spencer learned that he would be unable to travel to Sweden to take part in a conference for young white supremacists. As Spencer’s pal Christoffer Dulny, another white supremacist member of the so-called “alt-right” movement, wrote on Twitter, Spencer was slated to be a “secret guest” at the conference, but will be a no-show instead, having been turned away at a “European airport and denied further travel.”

“The global anarcho-tyranny lives and thrives,” Dulny added.

.......


Per Swedish media, Spencer was prevented from traveling during a layover in Poland. Polish authorities told Spencer that he was barred from traveling in the country, and that “he has to return to the United States,” according to Sweden’s Fria Tider outlet.

.........SNIP"

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Richard Spencer learns about strong borders, barred from European travel (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2018 OP
... nolabear Jul 2018 #1
I just wish the U.S. hadn't let him back in The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2018 #2
+1000. Hortensis Jul 2018 #6
Yes, and if he has spawn, separating them from him would do them a favor. lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #8
Zero tolerance zipplewrath Jul 2018 #3
Spencer got off lucky and cheap gratuitous Jul 2018 #4
Hmmm... I wonder why Spencer hasn't been championing those closed borders in Europe. LonePirate Jul 2018 #5
Oh my! fleur-de-lisa Jul 2018 #7
Good news! Scurrilous Jul 2018 #9

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
2. I just wish the U.S. hadn't let him back in
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 03:23 PM
Jul 2018

but had stuck him in a cage somewhere to await a hearing in the distant future.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
3. Zero tolerance
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 03:30 PM
Jul 2018

I guess, considering Poland's experience in this area, they have a "zero tolerance" policy for his kinda crap.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Spencer got off lucky and cheap
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 03:37 PM
Jul 2018

He was stopped from leaving Poland to go anywhere but back home for readily-identifiable reasons, having to do with his own conduct. He wasn't barred from traveling because he will be killed by governmental authorities if he goes back home or his domestic partner whaled the shit out of him, or any other condition that he has no control over. He wasn't imprisoned. He didn't have his traveling possessions confiscated.

But the whining from his pal Dulny? You rolled the dice and lost, chum. Suck it up.

LonePirate

(13,417 posts)
5. Hmmm... I wonder why Spencer hasn't been championing those closed borders in Europe.
Thu Jul 5, 2018, 03:38 PM
Jul 2018

Isn’t that what he wants here in America?

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