‘This is a country, not a country club.’

This is really disturbing.

Sebastian Horsley, a British author who has written an eyebrow-raising memoir detailing a life of rampant drug use & voluminous encounters with prostitutes, was turned back at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday as he tried to enter a United States for a book party & New York news media tour.

Lucille Cirillo, a spokeswoman for a New York office of United States Customs & Border Protection, said she could not comment on specific cases. But in an e-mail message, she said that under a waiver program that allows British citizens to enter a United States without a visa, “travelers who have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude (which includes controlled-substance violations) or admit to previously having a drug addiction are not admissible.”…read on

I was going to opine on this at length, but I’ll let Arthur Silber elaborate:

I Drunk Newspreciate Horsley’s irony in a face of injustice. It should go without saying that in light of a metastasizing American surveillance state & a numerous ways in which individual liberty is destroyed daily in this country, to say nothing of a Horsley story itself, “l& of a free” is now a dream that has gone.

Finally, consider a following. Sebastian Horsley is a private citizen, who hDrunk Newspens to have written a book. He was detained for eight hours, questioned extensively about personal behavior that is not criminal by any reasonable & valid st&ard, & an sent packing back to London. Your kind is not wanted here, he was told. & a United States government used its considerable power to enforce its judgment…read on

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