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Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by hsuduebc2 »

elric wrote: post #87
elil17 wrote: post #6

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.

For context: he's accused Belgium of being anti-semitic because a couple of Orthodox Jewish mohels are being prosecuted for practicing illicit medicine (i.e. performing ritual circumcision without a medical license). The investigation started after a complaint was filed by a rabbi, so it's hard to chalk this up to anti-semitisim, but that's modern day US diplomacy for you.

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Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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greenleafone7 wrote: post #141

What is weird in all of this is why is the US obsessed with israel so much exactly! Was it a random choice; did they had a random number generator pick it? Why are they not going to such lengths for other random countries in the opposite side of the world for example? And if an official's number one priority is not the people that pay him and have granted him his power, should he be in that position? The US is turnin…

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Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by chmod775 »

dylan604 wrote: post #136
jszymborski wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A distinction without a difference, he was pardoned by Jared's father in law.

I think it makes a huge amount of difference exactly because of what you stated. A pardon absolves one of the sin as if it didn't happen, legally. It however does not wipe the knowledge from people's mind as if it were the gadget from Men In Black. So, adding the bit just adds to the depravity

> A pardon absolves one of the sin as if it didn't happen, legally.

This is incorrect. A pardon is not an expungement. The conviction remains a usable historical fact and could still be referenced in later legal procedings.

Exact ramifications vary between innocence-based pardons, rehabilitiation-based pardons, and pure discretionary clemency.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by vrganj »

ethagnawl wrote: post #102
blitzar wrote: post #11

free speech, I fear, is in retreat

Which is quite ironic, given all the chuds running around and screeching about _free speech absolutism_.

You misunderstood, they were only ever concerned with the freedom of their speech. You know, stuff like inciting racial hatred.

It was never their opposition's speech they wanted to be free.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by flohofwoe »

danw1979 wrote: post #124
flohofwoe wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The link is police abusing their allowed powers to silence free speech and protest. If you'd actually read the post you'd know that its about the the US ambassador being an asshole and the Belgian police doing their job (quickly removing a supposed 'active threat' from an event - because that's the only information they had - they later realized their mistake and that the 'active threat' was just a journalist askin…

> they later realised their mistake Here’s the very problem. The police acting immediately to suppress a supposed threat (even “active” ones, whatever that means) which allows them to silence protest or even inconvenient questions to a public servant… … and we’re splitting hairs here, but it also allows the police to be manipulated by said public servants to get the protest silenced on their behalf. The police in thi…

I agree that the police could probably have acted more 'flexible' in the first few seconds before removing the journalist from the event. The other somewhat weird fact is that they showed up in 'cilivian' outfits instead of in uniform.

Yet still the *main* problem is the ambassador lying about that person being an active threat.

E.g. what if that information would have been correct? All hell would break lose if the police wouldn't take such a call serious and the supposed 'threat' would be real and people killed, from that perspective they seemed to have reacted quite civilized and calm.

If the events happened as reported, the ambassador should at the very least be summoned and grilled by the Belgian government.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by billfor »

gsibble wrote: post #76

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Sad day when this is number one and highly upvoted. I don't know why they can't use AI to identify posters that leave more than 90% of political postings here, and nicely suggest that at least some of the content be technical. The political postings would be better if they contained at least some technical information, or just go ahead and change the name of the forum to something other than "hackers".

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by rapnie »

yubblegum wrote: post #142
bambax wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Speaking of Jared Kushner, what has happened to our nation that this grifter twit is fronting one of the most strategically consequential negotiations on behalf of this nation? Is there any precedent in our history for what is going on these days?

In US history, pehaps not. In world history, probably.

Re: The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

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Post by [deleted] »

hsuduebc2 wrote: post #161
elric wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For context: he's accused Belgium of being anti-semitic because a couple of Orthodox Jewish mohels are being prosecuted for practicing illicit medicine (i.e. performing ritual circumcision without a medical license). The investigation started after a complaint was filed by a rabbi, so it's hard to chalk this up to anti-semitisim, but that's modern day US diplomacy for you.

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