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The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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"Belgian police willingly comply with U.S. ambassador's request, and Belgian police stopped your reporting" FTFY > a foreign ambassador had Belgian police remove us Belgian police removed us . FTFY again. The article is making a good point, especially the hilarious irony of all the private companies, and US being complicit in limiting press freedom. But it also fails to recognize the agency and complicitness of the B…

Renting a venue for an event usually comes with the right to decide who may attend and who may not. So if the embassy indeed rented the park, then as soon as the ambassador decided the journalists weren't welcome, they were no longer allowed to stay and the Belgian police were correctly doing their duty in making sure they complied and left. So the article isn't strictly alleging that the ambassador did anything he d…

> The officers, we later learned, had been told that Samuel was an ”active threat.”

The ambassador does not have the right to lie about someone being an active threat.

> A few days before the event, Samuel had published on his Instagram that ambassador White tacitly threatened an American and Belgian resident after that citizen urged the Zac Brown Band not to perform at the event

No right to threaten either.

> how we had got into the event (that the American embassy invited us to).Eventually, they accepted that we were journalists and that they disagreed with detaining us.

You dont get to invite journalists and then try to get police to detain them either.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The ambassador is a representative of the American President, so that fits. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.

I wish I could disagree with you, but I live in Florida.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't want to jump to conclusions, why then didn't you research a bit before posting?

Because search engines suck, it's hard to find reliable information on relatively niche foreign news sources and I'm lazy.

Not lazy enough to keep quiet rather than spreading FUD.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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For additional context, tensions are already high surrounding the US ambassador after he directly insulted multiple Belgian politicians and also attempted to interfere with local criminal judicial proceedings.

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The US ambassador to France is a convicted felon, father of Jared Kushner.

From Wikipedia:

«In February 2026, French authorities restricted Kushner’s direct access to government ministers after he failed to attend a summons from Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, sending a senior embassy official in his place. The French foreign ministry cited an "apparent failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial mission".»

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like they had a legitimate question for the ambassador who reacted badly - which is no surprise for someone in this administration.

I just don't want to jump to any conclusion as I've never heard of this site nor these people before, for all I know they could be known for doing stunts or something. Though if this really happened as they say, it reflects very badly on Belgium as well.

> Though if this really happened as they say, it reflects very badly on Belgium as well.

Not so sure. If the security at the event said "these people are active threats to security", then its the police's job to remove the threat and then investigate.

However it should now be on those lying about it that made the accusation to prevent their evidence, and if that's not good enough then to revoke their diplomatic credentials.

If the event was a private function as it appeared to be, then removing them is fine, but from the report it sounds like more accusations were made then "these people are no longer allowed at our event", and like the boy who cried wolf, that's where the problem needs to be sorted.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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If that’s your opinion, I don’t think you know what actual leftism is.

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Being born somewhere doesn't automatically grant you instant knowledge. For example most people in the mediterranean have no idea about all the history of the roman empire.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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For additional context, tensions are already high surrounding the US ambassador after he directly insulted multiple Belgian politicians and also attempted to interfere with local criminal judicial proceedings.

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> The American ambassador to Canada is also a complete clown

Since we are talking about American ambassadors, Mike Huckabee, American ambassador to Israel, doesn't seem like to work for America, it feels like he is an ambassador for Israel

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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More and more we see the relationship with authoritarianism (police) and tyranny (those in power) out in the open. We see this with the protests in Germany for Gaza. We see this in Britain with freedom of speech taken away from Palestine supporters. And we see this shamelessly occurring from the Trump world. I used to balk at those who were too worried at growing government power, but this is a wake up call. Protecti…

Quite a leap to bring Gaza and Palestine into a discussion about the US ambassor in Belgium.
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