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Leftwing pundit Hasan Piker says US border agents grilled him on Trump and Gaza
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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A two-hour "interview" is more an intimidation tactic than an "interview":
His responses were brilliant - and I'm taking note:
No. Never talk to police.
There is no police and right to a legal defense anymore in the US. Just goons.
Not true. Don’t comply in advance.
I didnt meant to say that you should give them anything, just that you shouldnt expect to be granted the rights you might expect. They will absolutely just put you in a cell for days, weeks, months if you dont answer their questions. People should be prepared for that.
Don’t expect it, demand it. Dissidents like Rumeya Ozturk have been freed after pursuing justice in the courts. What you say could happen but then it will be up t lo public pressure to force them to comply with the constitution and laws.
In the absence of legal protections, there is still no benefit of talking to police, even in the face of torture. Thugs have already made the decision to hurt you by the time they pull you off the street, nothing you say will convince them otherwise, and everything you say will be twisted to justify their behavior.
He's discussed how he did this to learn more about the process, and only because he's in a position of privilege being a public figure which gives him some measure of protection.
He has stressed that normal people should never talk to ICE or the police, except to clarify if they are being detained or to request a lawyer.
I think the issue is this is routine...
If he had said anything close to "yes" to those questions, they'd have called him a terrorist and sent him to the death camp.
I know I am on lists. I flew out of ORD yesterday. I have TSAPrecheck. Metal detector flagged me for “random” additional screening, which means body scanner. Body scanner flagged my groin, I lifted my shirt to show my belt buckle. “No, it’s lower than that.” I got a big old feel up for my trouble.
I don’t even have two testicles. Now I know I’m on lists. That shit was not random.
Try flipping a coin and see if you get an unusual pattern after a few tosses. Could be some heads in a row or tails in a row or alternating.
They're weighting the coins funny.
He should have leaned in and answered those questions with, "Are you a Nazi?", with a dead serious stare into the guy's soul.
And the interviewer wouldn't have given a shit.
🙄 We got a genius over here.
Is he actually a pacifist? That was not my impression.
Yeah, all those times he advocates for the end of wars. Extreme bloodthirst, that Hasan, not wanting children to be killed.
You don’t have to be a pacifist to not want children to be killed. Pacifism is a very strong stance against violence that very few people adopt.
... cool. That's what he said he is, so unless you have evidence he isn't (not sure how) I'm going to agree with him that he's a pacifist.
I’m not claiming he isn’t but considering I’ve not heard a word from him about this before today it doesn’t seem likely. He’s also made supportive statements of Hamas and Luigi Mangione—both very clearly not pacifists.
I mean, I don’t blame him for lying to get out of there but if he really is a pacifist that would be of interest to me since I find pacifism an interesting topic.
Pro Hamas edgelord streamer
He does like and support Hamas, he proudly says it every other time but wimps out when there's no camera on him.
I mean let's assume he does support Hamas (he doesn't, the furthest I've really seen him go is saying their resistance is justified in the face of genocide). But if we assume he does personally like them, should that put you in prison? It's clear they were trying to get him to say something that they could detain him for, which is then pretty understandable why he "wimped out" in that situation. The fact that they were asking him about that to potentially detain him over it is insane and clearly a first amendment violation.
He does support Hamas, I've seen him say it. No, I don't think it should put you in prison. Legally it gets murky since we do have laws against materially supporting designated terrorist groups, but I don't think he materially supports them.