Thank God for the United States Supreme Court, which would never uphold such a vague and weaselly standard.
“This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country,” Ms Smith told BBC Breakfast.
Named and shamed: the 16 barred from UK – UK Politics, UK – The Independent.
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Even if the question about Communist party membership is still on there, a) no one is holding press conferences to brag about it and b) it does not change the fact that the apparent British standard of “causing inter-community tension” is a laughable insult to free speech that would never be tolerated by a US court. (I can only hope that the actual legal standard in the UK is more rigorous and this is just a case of a grandstanding Cabinet minister).
It wasn’t 50+ years ago – I’m 95% sure the question is still on asylum seeker application forms for the USA. If it’s changed it’s only since about 2005.
I acknowledge your point, but there are some differences …
1) that was 50+ years ago — haven’t we all learned a little bit since then?
2) at the time, the Communist Party was consciously dedicated to the overthrow of the US (and UK) governments … that is a more stringent standard than merely “causing inter-community tension”, which could mean anything.
It must have been a different USA that used (don’t know if they still do)to ask entrants if they had ever been a member of the Communist Party.