CANBERRA, Australia – Convicted classified document leaker Chelsea Manning will not be allowed to enter Australia for a speaking tour scheduled to start Sunday, her event organizer said on Thursday.
Think Inc. said it had received on Wednesday a notice of intention from the government to deny Manning entry. The group is calling on her supporters to lobby new Immigration Minister David Coleman to allow her into Australia. While she can appeal, past precedent suggests the decision has already been made.
Think Inc. said it had given the government more than 10 letters of support from individuals and organizations who support Manning’s entry to Australia.
“Ms. Manning offers formidable ideas and an insightful perspective which we are hoping to bring to the forefront of Australian dialogue,” Think Inc. Director Suzi Jamil said in a statement.
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“(Mr.) Manning offers (seditious) ideas and an (leftist) perspective which we are hoping to bring to the forefront of Australian dialogue,”
You mean “his” organizer. Don’t play the game.
Wow, what a change in policy. Used to be a person HAD to have a criminal record to get into Australia.
Who wants to hear a lecture from an obviously deranged man? Apparently Australians don’t. Suck it up manning, nobody wants to hear anything you have to say.
Manning is a towering figure in democratic circles along with David Hogg. That tells you all you need to know.
The party leadership has gone completely insane and typical of most all democrats the majority of all registered dems follow blindly along.
Really?
Australia doing something rational?
Knock me over widda feddah!
izlamo delenda est …
Hey! It doesn’t matter! I’m sure Chelsea Boy goes down under plenty up here in the states.
Don’t want to know what’s down under.
Chelsea Manning Not Allowed To Go Down, Under
I’d hit that, like Reginald Denny
Commas, save lives.
Score one for common sense visitation laws.
I still think Taylor Swift should sue him for stealing her look.
As they say in San Francisco, fabulous.
This guy should be breaking rocks in a gated community.
Good. Maybe the butt hurt will give him the push to finish the suicide attempt from a few months ago.
I wish the news would stop calling him a her.
Ain’t that something? And here, I’d have given any odds that whatever it is has lots of experience going “Down Under!”
“Ms. Manning offers formidable ideas and an insightful perspective which we are hoping to bring to the forefront of Australian dialogue,”
You mean, like how to use emojis and twitter?
I think Think Inc doesn’t think.
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said
Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover