Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
They won’t because we are expected to toe the imperial line. We are a vassal state of the US.
It’s batshit that DFAT haven’t issue a travel warning, I agree. There’s warnings for China (reasonable), but damn, I feel no worry about travelling to China, just don’t do anything political.
I’d never in a million years consider travelling to the US.
Like someone else said, there are warnings for the UK. Certainly not a healthy country in 2026, but for the UK to be given a safety warning when the country with literal brownshirts roaming the streets does not is just absurd.
The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we’ve had over the last year??
I think I know where I’d rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes.
The UK is speedrunning the US to fascism, and they are ahead, even if they don’t have a blowhard running the show, just a traitorous mealy mouthed tool of the oligarchy. Cancelling the magna carta, the right to protest, defenses to decades in prison for protesting, bad faith terror designations by their corrupts lawmakers, a masterbaitorbase, age controls, the last two of which to give Thiel access to everything to make secret social scores to use against the population.
So when are countries like the UK (and my own Australia) going to update official government travel advice to warn against travel to America?
They won’t because we are expected to toe the imperial line. We are a vassal state of the US.
It’s batshit that DFAT haven’t issue a travel warning, I agree. There’s warnings for China (reasonable), but damn, I feel no worry about travelling to China, just don’t do anything political.
I’d never in a million years consider travelling to the US.
Like someone else said, there are warnings for the UK. Certainly not a healthy country in 2026, but for the UK to be given a safety warning when the country with literal brownshirts roaming the streets does not is just absurd.
Holy shit we have it at level 1.
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america
The UK is level 2.
https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/europe/united-kingdom
That’s gotta be a joke right?
The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we’ve had over the last year??
I think I know where I’d rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes.
The UK is speedrunning the US to fascism, and they are ahead, even if they don’t have a blowhard running the show, just a traitorous mealy mouthed tool of the oligarchy. Cancelling the magna carta, the right to protest, defenses to decades in prison for protesting, bad faith terror designations by their corrupts lawmakers, a masterbaitorbase, age controls, the last two of which to give Thiel access to everything to make secret social scores to use against the population.
and now they plan on making vpn use illegal without doxxing the user prior to internet use.
Remember when everyone was up in arms against China for their social credit score? I guess it’s fine as long as it’s administered by a billionaire.