Yesterday I was detained by CBP at LAX for over an hour upon re-entry into the US.
I was up, gave them my passport, and before I knew it, 2 other CBP officers came up to the counter and escorted me to the "secondary processing area."
2 big dudes, a black guy and a white guy.
Oh God, this can't be good.
First officer sat me down and started asking me questions.
Second officer took my laptop and phone and instructed me to unlock both for "inspection."
While that officer went through my files, photos, messages, emails, etc., the other officer started his interrogation.
Started with my travel itinerary. Then my work. Then my immigration history. Then my criminal record. Then my social circle.
It just went on and on, basically they questioned me about my whole life history.
45 minutes in, the IT officer summoned the interrogating officer over, whispered something, and then the interrogating officer came back and said:
"My partner, he found something on your laptop. Let's get back to your work. What other work have you done besides software engineering?"
I kinda knew what he was referring to, but I played dumb a little:
"I dunno man, I've done a shit ton of work."
He said, "Well you know what I'm getting at. I know you know. Tell me about your work in the adult film industry."
So I told him everything he wanted to know.
Who I shot for, how I got into the industry, how long did I work, how much I was paid, if I filed my taxes for said work, etc. etc.
He recorded everything.
Then they both retreated into a room.
I waited. And waited. Heart pounding the whole time.
They were probably still watching me on the CCTV.
Then both of them emerged about 10 minutes later.
They handed me back my laptop and phone and told me, "OK, you're free to go."
I heaved a massive sigh of relief.
I asked them, "So why was I flagged? Should I expect this every time I re-enter the US in the future?"
The interrogating officer said, "No reason, you're just flagged. And I don't know, maybe. Depends on what the next officer you encounter wants to do."
I was detained 10:40pm, released at 11:50pm.
Jesus fucking Christ.
What kind of fucking Gestapo state are we living in now?
My advice to all international travelers is this:
1. Bring a burner phone instead of your regular phone if you're travelling overseas. Log out of everything before departure.
2. Clear your laptop of all questionable files, clear all cookies/log out of everything, disconnect your cloud file sharing.
Don't even have bootlegged movies on your computer, who knows how overzealous they'll be to try to charge you with something?
3. Answer CBP's questions truthfully, as lying to a federal agent is a felony.
4. You can of course assert your 5th Amendment rights, but that will simply lead to them throwing the book at you and flexing their legal authority to the fullest.
I'm not sure I'd want to find out how long they'll detain you if you don't "cooperate."
And no, you're not entitled to legal counsel for CBP detentions.
Just be careful if you're travelling nowadays.
The TikTokers aren't lying when they say they've been detained as US citizens upon re-entry.
Just so you understand what border agents and ICE are doing…
Honestly, there are so many more places to hide stuff than what this video is showing. I’ve got entirely too many “you found that contraband WHERE???” stories.
One of the first things I learned when I became a cop is that you cannot be shy about searching someone. I’ve watched too many “I ain’t putting my hands all over another man” cops get suspended because they missed out on contraband.
God bless our Border Patrol and ICE. They’re the real heroes right now.
Colbert (and most talking heads) are nothing more than puppets of the state.
They’re losing their shows bc people realize they can’t be trusted, aren’t entertaining, and are mostly just propaganda arms.
The English state spent hundreds of years eradicating clan allegiances and clan justice due to the dangers it presents to settled authority. We've undone that work in a matter of a few decades.
I don't like making posts like this. I love women, I'm a believer in Christ, and healthy relationships between men and women are important to me. It is indeed my life work.
But the silence of Christian Conservative commentators about apps like Tea and the increasingly feral behavior of women is deafening.
You are LOSING young men because you have lost the plot. You do not understand what is going on in dating anymore, or worse yet, you lack the will to call it out.
Talk about polygamy triggers you when it will affect 1% of relationships, meanwhile the #1 app is a woman-only register of the faults - real or imagined - about the men they've dated.
You had plenty to say about "degenerate men," but nothing about this? No word on the state of modern women and their role in this low-trust climate?
I have always been a balanced poster on here. I've called out men for being weak and lazy, for being dull and lifeless, and for being too afraid to take risks with women. I've been hitting on the red pill for its excesses and negativity - as well as it's lack of good faith - for years.
But men are tired of being lectured about how they should accommodate these endless narcissistic escalations in their relations with women. They are opting out of dating because they were incentivized to play games to get women, and now are being punished for playing the games women demanded they play. They have to be the best men to get women, but then if these men don't give women what they want, they get slandered.
It's not acceptable.
If you want to regain trust and credibility you need to start addressing female entitlement and delusion. You need to stop giving them a pass and saying shit like "men need to step up."
Yes they do, but YOU need to step up first and start creating boundaries around bad female behavior and addressing it. You need to be warning your young men, and making it a stigma for women to act promiscuously and in bad faith, rather than perpetually cater to female victimhood. That you do not and keep talking in holier-than-though platitudes feels like either indifference or incompetence. You seem afraid of the ire of your female flock, which implies you are also afraid of your wives. You have modeled being a man in a relationship poorly - and this is why young men don't trust you or your advice.
If it seems like I'm being harder on Christians it's because I am a Christian, and I want the Christian message to succeed. I believe there is a deep spiritual demand and need for it. But the bottom line is the Church has a feminist problem, and it has burrowed itself deep into the hearts of 80% of its spiritual leaders. And it corrupts all the good that men could be receiving from it.
A renaissance of masculinity is occurring, and to their credit many Conservatives wish this to be so. But what they as of yet don't grasp is that a man is not truly a man if he cannot discipline a woman. Until he can tell a woman when she has been in the wrong, and refuse to accept anything other than better behavior, he is little more than her slave. He has to be willing to walk away - to say no. Yes, he must lead by example and cherish her, but her understanding of her own roles and commitment to virtue are just as important as his - and he has to hold her to them. It cannot just be about what she should receive from her man, but also what she must give.
Western civilization is in a crisis for many reasons. But you can trace almost every problem back to the fact that western men lost the ability keep their women in line. They became too permissive.
The problem is going to be solved; it's just a question at this point if the Church is going to be part of it.
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“English people should be allowed to be proud of being English, in England”
Mick Lynch talking unadulterated common sense to Irish media.
If you think otherwise, fine, but be aware your political project is a complete non-starter.
This is an incredible interaction between a privileged Green Party councillor preaching wokeness about migrants to a working class Englishman who has just had enough of the bullshit. I feel quite sorry for her, but like I said, people are becoming radicalised.
Most residents of Epping will be 'small c' conservative types. I don't think people grasp what instinctively being "far right" looks like��authoritarian mindset, race realist, blood and soil. It's not just "anti-immigration policy" but a gut-level worldview. These are normies.