Be careful of what you tweet...

They tried to stop me getting into the U.S years ago because I did the same job as my Father in Law who lived in America, they put me in a room for interrogation because they thought I go and work for him illegally, great start to my holiday.

Like a real terrorist is going to tweet his intentions...

A story closer to the source, from the Sun tabloid, as if that is any better than a checkstand tabloid. :)
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"Like a real terrorist is going to tweet his intentions..."

It would not be any different from the first attempt that was made to *take down* the World Trade Center tower with a bomb-in-a-van. The group responsible had one *terrorist* try to get the group's rental deposit back on the vehicle a couple of days later....

Dumb is as dumb does.

It's all just graffitti to me...Looks like the terrorists won this one.

It's one thing to use the posts as a red flag- quite another to bar entry minus any other evidence of actual intent to commit the actions suspected. "Destroy America" is pretty damn non-specific. Digging up Marilyn Monroe is impossible, as her body is above ground in a mausoleum.

I think the facts should have been sufficient to not ruin their vacation (two British kids, no evidence of extreme views, reasonable explanation of language used, and so on). It's not like there was an actual record of anti-US opinions or activities.

While they're busy repelling these "threats", people can easily enter undetected through our porous border to the south. That's just a fact. I do not want to veer this discussion into illegal immigration, I'm just saying that it's silly to be so hard on these people when the Federal government cannot really control who enters this country. I don't consider myself to be one bit safer by the action taken against them.

We need security checks when people enter at our airports; I guess checking tweets is a part of that. But common sense says tweets have to be taken as casual conversation, with things said in them to be considered in that context.

Don't you long for the good ol' days?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S9H6RO0bKA&feature=related

a famous Dutch historian said a few years ago that the Americans have no sense of irony. This seems to prove his point. That said it's unbelievable what BS people throw around on social media.

Great clip Tim and frankly not all that far from the truth, even now ;-) Did you notice that sign: Terminal Security? Think about that one for a minute...

It is good to see the US keeping up its War on Figures of Speech. In this case hyperbole gets it which is possibly a bit extreme. It is just as well they didn't say that their visit was an open secret or they would have been done for Oxymoron too.