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Call me suspicous but this sounds an awful lot like a PR stunt. One of these two is a same-sex amrriage advocate?
Pretty fucking unlikely that it's be HIM and his husband of all the potential gay couples that gets stopped.
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quote: when the customs official at Pearson International Airport rejected their family customs declaration form, insisting that they fill out separate forms as single people.
Meh, so they just had to fill out a different form.
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Huh. Anything deragatoty I write about them sounds like a gay-bashing comment.
Not like I'm mentioning that today is "talk like a Pirate day and they're butt pirates" or anything insensitive like that...
Nope. I'm just saying they're probably attention grubbing fuckos that could cost a border patrol guard his job for their publicity.
It's not my fault: i'm just following my spirit guide: unfortunately my guide is one of those deep-sea anglerfish with the long sharp teeth.
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Yeah, because, it's not like the U.S. airline industry keeps a list of dangerous leftist subversives. Oh, wait.
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The airline industry considers gays subversive? Better check out those stewards. Fl-am-in!
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I am not suggesting that they are actually on that list, but people who say certain politically unpopular things have been having more difficulty boarding flights. So it is not, you know, crazy.
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And before Omega leaps in, you got anything to prove that, Simon old chap?
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Actually, it is nothing more than a serious matter of National Security.
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Saltah'na
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I think the U.S. was totally wrong to invade Iraq. And I think George W. Bush is an ego wrenching, power crazed, oil hungry, dictatorial lunatic.
There, now I've said a politically unpopular thing. I expect to be denied entry/held at gunpoint/thrown in the tombs/anally fingerprobed.
Seriously, I wonder if there are people who go up to a U.S. Customs official and say that straight to their face.
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Believe it or not, Customs officials could care less (as a rule) if you're wearing a dress and snapping your fingers in a "Z" formation. They're looking for weapons, drugs and imporntant things. I'm sure many customs officers feel just as strongly against Bush as you do.
This couple probably heard of some assinine regulation that would prevent their crossing and set out to make a stink about it. It could cost someone their job in a region where jobs are hard to come by.
And for what? So they wont have to take an extra second and fill out an alternate form? It's not like using the "married" form instead is a big treat or that it's somehow easier to fill out.
quote:Mr. Elliott said he's also investigating whether any legal action can be undertaken on his clients' behalf.
I see a publicity lawsuit in the near future. Probably just in time for the '04 elections.
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Liam: Sort of. That I am not completely sure about it is why I am not holed up in secret mountainous location. It's going to take me some time to find the articles I was thinking about, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Saltah'na: I expect to be denied entry/held at gunpoint/thrown in the tombs/anally fingerprobed.
So, really, it won't be much different from your normal holiday weekends.
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"And for what? So they wont have to take an extra second and fill out an alternate form?"
Principle, dear, principle.
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Saltah'na
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Thank you, Cartman.
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