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U.K. Teen Gets Banned from U.S. After Calling Obama “Prick”

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After writing an angry e-mail to the White House in which he calls Barack Obama, seventeen-year-old Briton Luke Angel got himself forever banned from stepping on U.S. soil.

Angel wrote the e-mail after watching a television documentary about 9/11. A few days after pressing send, local British police came to his house, took his picture, and told him he’d never be able to enter the United States.

Angel’s digital rant is apparently being taken very seriously by the FBI, which placed the ban on the politically minded teenager. But Angel’s playing it cool for now. “I don’t really care,” he said, before admitting that his parents “aren’t very happy about it.”

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  • Big Eddie

    There must be more to this story . The kid may have made a threat , which would probably have involved more than taking his picture . Or the British police may have been trying to scare him . Big Eddie usually tells the coppers to take him in or buzz off .

  • Tony the Fist

    This whole banning people with big mouths from countries is getting kind of loopy. It reminds me of how Britain banned Michael Savage, yet they allow a whole host of real scumbags in. (see Madonna). ;)

  • http://SailRabbits.com Magister

    I don’t buy the kid’s story and that’s not just because the first link about it led to a Sky News report. They didn’t originate the story and the quote from the local cop seemed to back it up, but I still think the punishment may have been exaggerated as it moved down the pipeline and everyone seems too laid back to me.

  • http://SailRabbits.com Magister

    Clarification: The first link that I saw and not the first link in the above post.

  • greg454

    If George W. Bush had done this the media would have called him a tyrant and a dictator. Funny the priorities of this administration, when it comes to protecting the border in Arizona they’re against it, they’re even suing Sheriff Arpaio for “profiling.” Yet when it comes to a harmless 17 year old kid who’s gonna come to America for a week and then leave, oh, he’s a security threat. Yeah, right. I’m more afraid of Mexican cartels than of British teenagers, common sense, people!

  • pbauer

    That’s okay. If he simply walks into the US via Mexico, Obama will make him a citizen!

  • Tony the Fist

    “That’s okay. If he simply walks into the US via Mexico, Obama will make him a citizen!” You just made me spit out my Mt. Dew.

  • felixw

    The Left has zero tolerance for abuse directed at the President. You know, the kind of stuff that they hurled at Bush on a daily basis. That’s exactly the kind of stuff they don’t like.

  • DrFunke

    What we have to understand is that people are allowed to say whatever they want about Obama b/c that is freedom of speech

    But when a Republican comes into office, we should NOT allow ANYONE to insult the President b/c we need to support the President at all times

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicole-Belle/558603592 Nicole Belle

    Absolute crap. Irresponsible journalism from the start and worse, echoed through a craven media unwilling to do even the basics of their job and you know… FACT CHECK.

    Nobody gets banned from a country for calling someone, even the President, a prick. Hell, Obama gets called worse by members of Congress every single day.

    The stupid kid admits that he doesn’t remember what he wrote, but thinks the worse he did was use the word “prick”? And that merits Homeland Security getting involved.? And no one asks why 9/11 is somehow Obama’s fault and sent this teenaged goon into a rage?

    C’mon, Mediaite. That doesn’t pass the smell test for even the most stupid. Stop using your platform to celebrate the most ignorant.

  • CAconservative

    Wait a minute!! Don’t we afford everyone (illegal aliens) every Constitutional right a legal citizen enjoys? Or, is this another example of that “living document thing”?! If Obimbo is a “Prick”, he’s the most flaccid prick we’ve ever had in the White House. The only place blood rushes to in his body is his ego!!

  • Arkansas Steve

    pbauer said:
    That’s okay. If he simply walks into the US via Mexico, Obama will make him a citizen!

    Good comment. Very funny. Probably also accurate.

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