Posted on 08/25/2022 1:18:47 PM PDT by dennisw
Plus a free phone, free housing for the length of your stay, free food, free transportation, the list is endless because EVERYTHING'S FREE IN AMERICA!
No offense taken whatsoever by me.
I can assure you many of them carry some type of transmittable disease from Tuberculosis to Covid.
In Biden’s America there are two standards of Justice. He and his minions operate as dictators.
Novak Djokovic is denied entry into the U.S.A. because he chooses to remain unvaccinated. He does not want to get the Covid shot. You know the Covid vaccine that Dr.Fauci, the CDC, NIH and big Pharma said would prevent anyone from getting Covid. They all lied.
Imagine that it is okey dokey for millions of invaders from hundreds of countries to cross our Southern border at the invitation of Joe Biden without being vaccinated. Two standards of Justice. It’s Banana Republic time.
Nadal is taking full advantage of the situation.
“...for the night is coming when no man can work”
John 9:4b
When so many Freepers were attacking Australia back in January, I wrote that the USA had the same rules, and I was laughed at by many on this forum assuring me that Novak would be allowed to play. It is hard to believe that now, after everyone sees how ineffective the vaccines are, that there are still these types of bans on international travel.
Reading John here, and the journeys of the Apostle Paul.
Listening for the Last Trumpet every evening.
I was attacking Australia, but I didn't laugh at you when you wrote that the USA had the same rules.
Many countries are overrun with retarded children running the government. The US is one of the primary examples.
I never challenged Australia's right to enforce their laws...I just suggested that an exception could be made in that extraordinary situation.
And now I find my country making the very same silly mistake.
I don't know if you've seen it but our "CDC",the government agency that's in charge of such things as "epidemics",just admitted the other day that they got it wrong from the very start. Also,Dr Anthony Fauci (I call him Fauxi),who's the top "expert" at the CDC,just announced that he's retiring in December...a month before Republicans are expected to seize control of the House and/or the Senate. And on TV last night he said that he'd "entertain" the possibility of honoring any Congressional subpoena he might receive.
Just another example of the wisdom of President Reagan's famous warning that the nine most dangerous words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
However,when I arrived at the airport all they did was look at my vaccination card and take my temperature.They never called me for the results of the post arrival test they required. Ten seconds total.
I’ll tell you, a lot of Australians are finding this bloody hilarious.
And my attitude toward this current situation is exactly the same. But added to *that* situation is that The Big Guy is allowing millions of Third World residents in without even a mention of testing or danger.
So my basic opinion is that if the ban for the US Open stands the winners of both tournaments should have an asterisk after their name...one that very probably wasn't necessary.
Just sayin'...
Yes, some Americans were taking the slightly different position that America might be just as bad - but most of what we were having thrown at us was bloody stupid ill informed bigoted crap.
Djokovic came into this country without permission - even if you think he should have been able to get permission, the simple fact is he did not have a valid visa and as such, he sought to enter the country illegally.
That is the fundamental reason he wasn't allowed to stay.
Australia has secure borders. That is our absolute right and one of the most basic principle that protects our sovereignty.
Americans who think we should have made an exception for Djokovic after he entered the country illegally - I genuinely don't understand where they are coming from.
If this had been handled better, and things had been sorted out before he arrived in Australia, I do think a valid case could have been made to allow him entry. But once he turned up without valid permission, that changed everything.
It's hard to know for certain - but I think the odds are that he would have been given permission to enter Australia a day or two after this all happened, if things had been handled better. Once the Victorian government had made it clear they had no issue with him coming to Melbourne, Tennis Australia, probably could have contacted the Commonwealth government and got an agreement to allow him in. But that isn't what happened. Instead, they seem to have just told Djokovic he could come, without even contacting the authorities with actual legal power to give him an entry exemption. But the screw ups that stopped that happening were screw ups by Djokovic (and his people) and Tennis Australia. Not by the Australian government.
Djokovic wasn't most to blame for that screw up. Tennis Australia - importantly, a private company, not a government organisation - gave him misleading and inaccurate information that I, do believe, made him think he'd be allowed in. And I will criticise Tennis Australia until the cows come home for that monumental stupidity. I do think Djokovic compounded the error by what I believe is fairly described as sloppy errors on his entry paperwork, if not actually deliberately dishonest (albeit over an issue that he, or whoever filled in the paperwork, probably regarded as trivial). That made it very difficult for him to try and argue he was totally blameless - which might have made a difference.
But it wasn't the Australian government to blame, and unless you believe private companies should have some power to overrule the government on matters of border security, the criticism of Australia in general, honestly, seemed rather foolish to me.
Americans who think we should have made an exception for Djokovic after he entered the country illegally - I genuinely don't understand where they are coming from.
There's evidence on your profile page,and mine,that we've done a fair amount of international traveling. As a result we're both aware that an airline that transports a person into a country who doesn't have the proper documents is heavily fined and is responsible for returning the person to the point of departure. So,given that *and* the (bad) advice he was given he had every reason to believe that everything was kool. He shouldn't be confused with the Mexicans who are crossing our border with the border patrol instructed to look the other way.
He clearly didn't intend to break any laws/regulations.
Oh well,it's late,I'm tired and I'm driving to NYC in the morning.I guess we'll never fully agree on what happened in January and *I*,at least,don't agree at all with what's happening here at this time. I'm just glad that the Brits were able to see reason and did the right thing...thus allowing Novak to remind the world that he's still #1.
Yes.
Tennis Australia told him he was exempt from vaccination requirements. He wasn't.
There's evidence on your profile page,and mine,that we've done a fair amount of international traveling. As a result we're both aware that an airline that transports a person into a country who doesn't have the proper documents is heavily fined and is responsible for returning the person to the point of departure.
Djokovic had a visa which is all the airline was obliged to check. The problem was that that visa was issued on the basis of his claim that he had a valid exemption to enter Australia - and he may well have believed he did. But when he arrived and presented his medical documents, he didn't.
The airline that flew him here was legally obliged to return him, but they weren't at risk of fines. They met their legal duties.
He clearly didn't intend to break any laws/regulations.
I don't believe he intended to enter Australia illegally. That doesn't change the fact that that is what happened.
And while this was being investigated, a couple of other problems were identified that were his fault. The first is, he was asked on entry paperwork if he had travelled in the previous two weeks. He said he hadn't. He had. In other words, he had now presented a false statement. Note - he admitted to this before the court. That is actually a serious offence under Australian immigration law by itself (the form actually says so - "Giving false or misleading information is a serious offence. You may also be liable to a civil penalty for giving false or misleading information."
There was no reason he shouldn't have filled that paperwork out properly - answering "Yes" instead of "No" would have made no difference to his being allowed or denied entry. But it does help to make him seem careless rather than just an innocent victim of incorrect information. It also created a second reason to refuse entry that was, unambiguously, his fault.
That was, I think, the nail in the coffin.
There was also the issue that he hadn't followed laws in his own country on isolating when infected (again, he admitted this). I'm not sure if that had any impact at all, as it wasn't a violation of Australian law - but it does add up to another issue that was his fault.
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