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Ridiculous. No nation on earth allows foreign visitors unfettered and unlimited rights to protest and otherwise disrupt society.

Doing so (a) raises obvious national security concerns and (b) interferes with our (Americans’) ability to govern ourselves.

[b]Should devout foreign students visiting the US be allowed to protest against gay rights and call for violence against LGBTQ people?[/b]

Should Russian tourists be allowed to protest against US support for Ukraine?

I don’t think so.[/quote]
And yet, President Trump vociferously defended the right of a British nation, living in the United States on an O-1B visa, to exactly that during his first administration.

Remember Milo Yiannopoulos?

Milo was a writer for [i]Breitbart[/i] in 2014-17.  As you might imagine, Milo embraced every far-right talking point he could get his arms around, and antagonized every minority group his friends loathed.  Muslims?  Absolutely, and he made clear that he wasn't talking about extreme Islam: "I'm not talking about Islamists. I'm not talking about terrorists. I'm not talking about radical Islam. I'm talking about mainstream Muslim culture."  Feminists?  He described them as "dumpy lesbians" and boasted that "feminism is cancer" and "a mean, vindictive, sociopathic, man-hating movement."  He also wrote that "birth control makes women unattractive and crazy."  Blacks?  His personal attacks of actress Leslie Jones, who he referred to as a "black dude," were so bad that Tweeter banned him.  (Of course, Elon Musk reinstated him.) Gays?  Also on his hit list: "Gay rights have made us dumber, it’s time to get back in the closet."  Oh, did I mention that Milo is gay himself?

And what about Milo's friends?  Well, here's Wikipedia synopsis of them: "In 2017, Yiannopoulos was depicted singing ''America the Beautiful'' at a karaoke bar, where a crowd of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including Richard B. Spencer, cheered him with the Nazi sieg heil salute. In response, Yiannopoulos denied observing the Nazi salutes while he was singing, citing what he claimed to be ''extreme myopia''. [[i]sic[/i]] According to the bartender who was working on the night of the incident, Yiannopoulos, Spencer and their entourage came into the bar and asked to sing karaoke even though it had ended. When the bartender saw the Nazi salutes she rushed the stage and told Yiannopoulos and his friends to leave, at which point they began harassing her, chanting ''Trump! Trump! Trump!'' and ''Make America Great Again!'' According to her, Yiannopoulos was getting the others ''roused.''

Anyhoo, during President Trump's administration, Milo got the wonderful idea of taking his show on the road.  [i]The Dangerous &lt;Insert Gay Slur Here and a Reminder that Milo is Gay&gt; Tour[/i], he called it.  He opened his circus tent on college campuses across the country.  Predictably, college students were not happy -- especially at the University of California at Berkeley.  In their counterprotest to shut down Milo's event before it began, students turned violent -- fires, overturning police cars, the whole nine yards.  University officials got the message and cancelled the event.

President Trump was not happy: "If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" he Tweeted.  Yeppers, President Trump threatened to take away federal funds if foreign nationals weren't given University access to protest, criticize, and insult Muslims, feminists, lesbians, and blacks.

So, yes, it appears that guests in our country can protest to their heart's content -- so long as they protest against Muslims, feminists, lesbians, and blacks.

[url]https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-uc-berkeley-milo-yiannopoulos-234530[/url]
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/could-milo-deported-immigration-attorney-explains-guest-blog-213228247.html[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos[/url][/quote]

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