State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments

https://www.wsj.com/politics/state-department-revokes-visas-over-charlie-kirk-comments-3c30d9ae

69•standardUser•2h ago

Comments

halperter•2h ago

https://archive.is/jHog0

wrs•2h ago

Well, I hear there are very fine people on both sides. [0]

[0] https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/...

Calvin02•1h ago

“Party of free speech” (tm)

senectus1•1h ago

I mean.. I dont agree with the Trump administration on nearly anything. But deciding that they dont like what an outsider says and blocking them entrance based on that is not a free speech issue, they're not citizens.

stephen_g•1h ago

These seem to be deportations of people already in the country which is vastly different.

But even barring people from entry because they don't toe a partisan party line is pretty ludicrous for the "land of the free".

Cheer2171•1h ago

Tell me where in the first amendment it says these rights only apply to citizens.

some_guy_nobel•1h ago

Would you consider yourself a supporter of free speech?

Do you think it should apply only to citizens?

We can default to the Supreme Court's ruling in Bridges vs Wixon: "Freedom of speech and of press is accorded to aliens residing in this country.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=107220981080384...

b0sk•1h ago

So hypothetically, a future Dem administration can deport right-leaning visa holders?

mlrtime•1h ago

Yes, and you can come back here and see all the comments that either say its justified in this case. Or, comments will state that the other side did it first.

I'll remove my comment if a clear case exists that is not generally celebrating it here.

happytoexplain•34m ago

Note, even if this were true, the entire point of being the free speech party or being a free speech absolutist was that those people supported free speech above and beyond the legal concept of free speech. They explicitly built their free speech crusade against moderation actions on privately owned websites.

stronglikedan•1h ago

Both parties have denied Visas for social media posts in the past - in fact that has been going on since it started many years ago. It's only news now for some strange reason. Although, I'm sure it's "different this time(tm)".

refurb•5m ago

I see so many posts on here that only see the world in black and white. It’s either or, never shades of gray.

No political party that supports free speech claimed it was so absolute that we ignore the national security implications of non-citizens promoting violence against US citizens.

ValveFan6969•1m ago

Encouragement of violence is not free speech.

_wire_•1h ago

The degrees of hypocrisy at play in the GOP today are striking:

Trump / Kirk U.S. Medal of Freedom hit parade...

https://www.independent.co.:uk/news/world/americas/us-politi...

Young Republican leadership's internal language about their countrymen, writ in rampant death & torture threats, unhinged bigotry and hatred, heartbreaking callousness and disregard for the welfare of others, and all of it festooned with a sociopathic posture of contrition to masquerade an utter perversion of the values of brotherhood and personal "responsibility"...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Bazingoh•49m ago

Happy to hear this!

poopiokaka•36m ago

Ok snowflake

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