Australia flags denying U.S. whistleblower Chelsea Manning entry visa
Australia has signaled it is preparing to ban U.S. whistleblower Chelsea Manning from entering the country ahead of a scheduled speaking tour, the organizer of the engagements said. Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is scheduled to speak at the Sydney Opera House at the weekend.
However, Suzi Jamil, owner of the company organizing Manning's speaking tour in Australia, said late on Wednesday Manning had received a notice from the Australian government informing her Canberra was considering cancelling her visa. [...] Australian law allows the immigration minister to deny anyone a visa if they do not pass a character test, a broad criteria that affords the government sweeping powers.
Manning is scheduled to travel to New Zealand after finishing her three events in Australia but the center-right opposition National Party has also called for her to be denied entry.
Also at NYT.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:40PM (3 children)
A post which speaks the truth is modded as flamebait ?
If you SJWs wonder why some people don't respect you, look no further.
You are too childish to tolerate views with which you disagree so you seek to silence those views.
This is not the behavior of an adult.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @01:02AM
Sounds like you need one of these:
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @03:01AM
While your opinion may be that they don't want a traitor it seems much more likely that the combination of being trans and a whistleblower are what really did it along with the likely aspect of someone in the US leaning on them a little.
Speaking of childish I'll refer you to this little gem
:facepalm:
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 31 2018, @04:03AM
It speaks a maybe truth, like in "Or maybe they just ..."
Same degree of truthfulness as a maybe not truth. And yet somehow you expect that the maybe truth will be accepted as the truth and those who do not accept it have "painfully limited understanding" and are "comically obvious liberal bias".
Righto, kid, get busy growing up, you have a lot of ground to cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford