{"id":232807,"date":"2024-06-04T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=232807"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:11:04","slug":"us-seizes-passport-of-former-us-marine-un-weapons-inspector-scott-ritterscott-ritters-passport-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=232807","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>US seizes passport of former US Marine &#038; UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter\u2019s passport at airport<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/news-selections\/world-news\/us-seizes-scott-ritters-passport-at-airport\">READ HERE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<h3>Former US Marine, and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter was physically stopped from visiting Russia today, by U.S. government hirelings.<\/h3>\n<h3>The US State Department seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he said on Monday.<\/h3>\n<h3>Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cMy passport was seized by the State Department,\u201d Ritter said in a message. \u201cI was pulled off the\u00a0airplane.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m fine, just aggravated,\u201d he added.<\/h3>\n<h3>Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, who later served as the US and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He is also a Russia Today (RT) contributor, writing about international security, military affairs, Russia, and the Middle East, as well as arms control and nonproliferation.<\/h3>\n<h3>He most recently visited Russia in January, spending time in Chechnya, Moscow and St. Petersburg, among other places.<\/h3>\n<h3>The most recent post on Ritter\u2019s Telegram channel put the Clooney Foundation for Justice on notice for its alleged crusade against \u201cRussian propagandists.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHere I am. In your face. If telling the truth about Russia makes me a propagandist in your book, then I accept the title,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBring it on. I\u2019ll school you on the First Amendment.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou have zero concept of what free speech is. Try and arrest me and you\u2019ll find out. In spades. It\u2019s war,\u201d he added.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}