British teenager banned from America for life after sending Barack Obama abusive email

 

 

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Last updated at 8:27 AM on 14th September 2010

 

 

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A British teenager has been banned from America for life for sending Barack Obama an abusive email, in which he calls the President a p***k.

Luke Angel, 17, insulted Mr Obama while drunk after watching a programme about the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

Angel was reprimanded by police on both sides of the Atlantic after firing off the message to the White House.

 

 

 

 

Reprimand: Luke Angel, left, had his message to Mr Obama intercepted by the FBI

 

 

The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK who went to see Mr Angel at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

The college student is now on a list of people who are banned from visiting the States.

The teenager told the Bedfordshire On Sunday newspaper that he had sent the email after watching a TV programme about September 11.

When asked about the ban, Luke said: 'I don't really care. My parents aren't very happy about it.

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'The police who came round took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever.'

A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: 'The individual sent an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language.

'We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and went to see him. He said, "Oh dear, it was me".'

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Officers will take no criminal action.

This latest case comes a year after that of computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who is facing decades in a U.S. jail for crimes allegedly committed from his north London home.

The extradition of the Asperger's sufferer - who was searching for evidence of alien life when he hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers - brought a storm of protest.

A review of the Extradition Act - which governs arrangements between the U.S. and UK - was announced earlier this month by Home Secretary Theresa May.

The laws allow America and European Union countries to have British citizens arrested and sent for trial abroad - without presenting the level of evidence which would be needed for prosecution in the UK.

A judge will lead a panel examining whether the Extradition Act and European Arrest Warrant are being used to unfairly pursue Britons.

At the heart of the controversy is the fact the Act is 'lopsided' because British citizens are not given the same legal protection as Americans.

It comes against the backdrop of questions over Freedom of Speech in the U.S. - particularly in light of the row over the building of a mosque on the site if Ground Zero.

 

 

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How ridiculous.

wait what did he call him?

 

a prick? ...thats not even a bad word.

 

Im trying to think of an insult that starts with a p and ends with a K thats bad enough to get you banned from the usa......

 

 

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I got nuthin :shrug:

 

Yeah, prick.

It means penis over here in that context but is only used as an insult, very rarely when actually describing the genitals.

over here its like calling someone an asshole

 

 

still how dumb

 

his own citizens call him worse than that on a daily basis.

 

Its almost funny the things I hear called

 

"Obama is a socialist FASCIST"

 

Obama is the ANTI CHRIST

 

Obama is responsible for hurricane Katrina

 

Obama started the swine flu!!!!

 

 

Ahhahaha <3 God Bless Amurrrrikah

i'd think whatever was written in this bit

The individual sent an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language

is what got him banned, not the word prick.

i'd think whatever was written in this bit

 

is what got him banned, not the word prick.

 

Obviously. And his total stupidity for sending such an email in the first place.:dozey:

 

We want a word with you son:laugh3:

Had they been death threats then the White House would have said they were death threats. Empty threats don't warrant a banning from a country. Not in my eyes anyway.

If he had just insulted with him or disagreed with him I agree, this is far too severe but making threats, death or not is stupid as they take them very seriously.

Still it would suck to be banned from the US though it's a great Country.

If he had just insulted with him or disagreed with him I agree, this is far too severe but making threats, death or not is stupid as they take them very seriously.

 

At least if the email had been sent to Dubya you might not have been surprised. But to Obama?:stunned:

it would suck to be banned from the US though it's a great Country.

 

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At least if the email had been sent to Dubya you might not have been surprised. But to Obama?:stunned:

 

I would be surprised if this kid even managed to email Obama direct. Surely the best email he would have gotten while drunk would have been just a general White House email? It probably was addressed to Obama but yeah this is a little silly, unless he made death threats or something, they do take that srs.

:srs: .

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No, really :blank: If I got thrown out of the States I'd be devestated.

I wouldn't be too bothered if I got banned.

I'd rather not of course, in case I ever decide to go, but it's hardly top of my list. I can think of at least 15 other countries I would rather go to.

so i assume there to send a mail you ought to write your address there?

why that kid used his real one?

wait was email or mail?

i had thought presidents get this sort of emails often anyways.

well that's just stupid.

At least if the email had been sent to Dubya you might not have been surprised. But to Obama?:stunned:

 

Surely you jest.

When I hear this on CNN, I'll believe it. Until then, it's bull.

When I hear this on CNN, I'll believe it. Until then, it's bull.

If you choose to report it. It's hardly a big story for you. It isn't a big story for us.

It's on the BBC which adds more gravitas than a paper like the Daily Mail.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-11296303

 

Obama e-mail teenager gets US ban

 

A teenager from Bedfordshire has been banned from entering the United States for life for sending a "threatening" e-mail to the White House.

 

Luke Angel, 17, of Silsoe, was investigated after he expressed his dislike of President Barack Obama and the US Government.

 

Bedfordshire police, who then visited Luke, said the e-mail was full of abusive and threatening language.

 

"He was told that he wouldn't be able to go to America," they added.

 

A spokeswoman said it was a case of a boy "being silly" and no criminal action was being taken.

 

"We were informed by the Metropolitan Police and so we went round to see him," she said.

 

"He said 'oh dear, it was me'."

 

He told police he could not remember exactly what he had written in the e-mail.

Surely you jest.

 

Nope. Dubya was extremely unpopular worldwide, unlike Barack.;)

Ummm. Obama isn't exactly popular...at least, not over here. He has a Presidential Approval Index of -12 as of today.

 

Link.

Your link took me to http://link./ :blank:

Did it? I'm sorry. Lemme try it again.

 

LINK.