Smirk messing with foreign journalist - don't want them to witness

[donsu]

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1256588,00.html

Journalists hit by new US visa rules

A crackdown by US authorities on issuing visas to foreign journalists threatens to cause chaos for overseas broadcasters and newspapers just five months before the presidential election.

The new rules, which come into force next week, will ban overseas reporters and news crews stationed in the US from renewing their visas without leaving the country first.

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From next week the estimated 20,000 foreign journalists stationed in the US, who used to be able to renew their visas with ease in any major city, will be forced to leave the country to do so.

Rather than applying to renew their visas in Washington or New York, they will be forced to leave the country and re-apply at a US embassy or consulate abroad, delaying their application for between four weeks and six months.

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The state department said it was taking the action to comply with new homeland security legislation, which requires all visas issued after October 26 to include biometric information, including fingerprints.
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the criminal bushgang is closing down our country, getting rid of foreign journalists so they can't report on the next bushgang coup d'etat

(at the right time they will close the internet too. blackouts anyone?)

[htuttle]

1. When Mugabe kicked all the foreign reporters out...

...didn't the rest of the world get really mad about it?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. And the sheeple don't even care.... *sigh*

[flordehinojos]

3. Yeah! The Bush Boy is really afraid of accountability!

Yeah! The Bush Boy is really afraid of accountability. No Foreign Press to witness our elections, no verified paper-trace voting machines down in Jeb's controlled neck of the woods. I wonder how many Bushistas have ever watched THE SOUND OF MUSIC as civil liberties began to erode around Baron Von Trapp and his Von Trapp Family Singers and how in the beginning the sting of the coming dictatorship felt more like a "was I really stung?" kind of thing for the Baron and his friends, and how when eventually the realized what was about to be unleashed upon them they almost lost their lives trying to escape it. I wonder how many have made the connection between viewing what the beginning of a German imposed dictatorship in Austria as reflected in the movie was like ... and the beginnings of our own Bush imposed dictatorship here in the U.S. I wonder how much blood we will have to spill here before Bush and his Junta can be stopped. I wonder if we will be able to stop him come November without any bloodshed in our own American soil.

[tnlefty]

4. kick

:kick:

[Pathwalker]

5. This should scare the hell out of everyone!

Makes me think they're going to do something they don't want the world to see...like an impending "terrorist" attack...I'm thinking the DNC Convention...this is scary.

THIS BEGINS NEXT WEEK - YIKES!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. BINGO!...and scary as hell...bushco is gonna do another "pearl harbor"

but this time in boston in july...i've been saying this for months ..that bush* neocons will again friegn another terrorist attack in order to cancel the election that he/they canNOT win.