Bryan Tew Returns to America / Open Thread

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Bryan’s adventures in Panama have come to a halt. He applied for asylum and even attended an interview, but claimed the translator was corrupting his testimony (no evidence provided) and decided to leave several days after the interview.

Bryan ends up taking a flight out of Panama back to New York City where he passes through immigration and returns to American life. For how long is not clear.

Here’s the adventure so far:

Bryan gets into an argument with police officers at JFK Airport. The officers have zero tolerance for Bryan’s bullshit and lies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7y9rSSrqM&t=46s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmy6KZRGuNo&t=2s

After being given the bum’s rush at JFK Airport, he ended up at a city-run veteran’s shelter:

Bryan left the veterans shelter after a day or less, apparently because he thought they were harvesting his DNA through the use of COVID testing, which makes no sense at all. DNA doesn’t change, so if they actually care to catalog his DNA, they need only take it from a single sample, not from countless continued samples taken on an ongoing basis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtMT-C3YvtM

90 thoughts on “Bryan Tew Returns to America / Open Thread”

  1. He’s at LAX and had the usual experience of security hassling him but not the other people waiting around.

    https://youtu.be/2YwakARHXHQ

    I haven’t flown anywhere in a long time and, as such, I don’t have any first hand experience with the latest in airport security technology but I strongly suspect that it’s trivial with modern facial recognition databases to match a face with their travel itinerary and, as such, airport security can probably fairly easily distinguish between people waiting between flights and homeless people using the airport as a free hostel.

    Bryan talks about wanting to contact the Chinese consulate about his missing 10-year visa. At the end of the video, he shows a detailed scan of his still in-date visa which seems like something someone absolutely shouldn’t post publicly if there is to be any chance of China letting one back in.

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  2. It looks like Bryan is rage-quitting New York and is headed off to Los Angeles.

    I don’t think he’s going to have any better a time in the Los Angeles shelter system, so why is he only choosing to go to the biggest cities where the VA hospitals are the most overwhelmed?

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    • I suspect the bigger cities have more resources/hand-outs for the homeless. He’d have a harder time in smaller locales where the shelters are purely private operations rather than public/private partnerships with more $$$ flowing in.

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      • But yeah if he doesn’t change his behavior, he’s going to have the same problems in LA.

        He’ll end up in the streets again or back in some LatAm shithole.

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        • His stay in L.A. didn’t last long, he’s taken a train to San Diego, possibly his last stop in the United States before he starts endlessly drifting around the world again.

          I think him leaving the VA system in New York City was a mistake as I don’t know how much longer he can go from one third world hostel to another at his age and in his physical condition.

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  3. It’s worth listening to this one, at least after the hour and ten minute mark. Bryan gets called “arrogant and obnoxious” by a hospital physician.

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    • I’ll try to catch up and listen to these.

      I’m getting the impression that something happened at the shelter, cops were called, and Bryan got himself admitted to the hospital. Bryan didn’t like whatever the doctors were doing (or not doing) and decided to leave on his own. He was escorted out by hospital PD and told he was labeled in their system as a troublemaker which offended Bryan (I guess Bryan doesn’t recall the assault he perpetrated in 2017 at the San Diego VA, or at least refuses to admit he behaved badly).

      I saw a video where there was a lot of trash and water thrown outside of his door. My instinct is that Bryan must have cranked up the volume really high and was asked to turn the volume down. Bryan likely refused and he was given wet garbage as a gift.

      I’m guessing this led to some sort of altercation that Bryan was on the losing end of and hence the hospital trip.

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      • According to Bryan, someone was playing with his food, so Bryan threw a Coke at him, and the other guy whacked him with a food tray.

        The audio certainly seems to corroborate that there was a guy who was acting a lot like a high school bully in the cafeteria to Bryan, and obviously a homeless shelter is going to have numerous people with mental problems acting obnoxiously, so I can mostly buy Bryan’s version of events even if we don’t have the full picture of Bryan’s past interactions with this guy that might have led the guy to single out Bryan.

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  4. So, when Bryan says after 36:00 that he doesn’t need a psychological or cognitive assessment because he already had one, is he talking about an assessment he had recently or is he talking about the one he had back in 1989?

    If it’s the latter, I don’t think psychological assessments from one third of a century ago, when he was only 21 or 22 years old, still carry much weight, at least when it comes to applying for benefits from Veteran’s Affairs. I think they want an assessment of his current mental state that’s a little more “au courant” (up to date).

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  5. Bryan says his enclosed room (it’s enclosed, but the walls don’t go all the way to the ceiling, so yeah, you can still hear things going on outside) isn’t good enough and is demanding a private apartment as a “reasonable accommodation”.

    Just a few weeks ago, Bryan was listening to “Christian content”(TM) at a high enough volume that the staff told him to knock it off (and Bryan made frivolous legal threats).

    It’s okay for Bryan to listen to his devices at a loud enough volume to bother other people, but it’s not okay for other people to talk or listen to music.

    Yeah I’m gonna say that this isn’t a reasonable request. Your hearing isn’t selectively damaged that your own audio doesn’t hurt your ears but everyone else’s does. Such bullshit.

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    • The image is probably too blurry. His writing reads:

      “Severe acoustic trauma to ears from directed energy attack. UNABLE to tolerate noise. Request private studio apartment or 1 bedroom while I wait”.

      There are other pages, but they don’t contain anything of interest. It’s just a required HIPAA authorization form saying he agrees to the release of his medical records to support his request. He didn’t attach anything besides the request form.

      I guess this is why he wants the audiology exam, although if the results look the same as his previous several ones, it won’t support his request. A pair of earplugs would be a reasonable accommodation. He already has a private room.

      Bryan, what about noise cancelling headphones?

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  6. Nothing super interesting happening with Bryan lately.

    The new shelter he’s at has private rooms. Earlier he complained about the noise of the open environment in his previous accommodations, now he complains that “they” are stopping the “random and chaotic conversations needed to defeat the system” with the enclosed room. Whatever Bryan gets, he complains about it.

    He’s been to a few different doctor’s appointments with various specialists. I’m not entirely sure of the results, because I don’t feel like listening to hours of his “Just Press Record” recordings that he has been taking.

    I know at one of the specialists he went to at the VA, he told them he had microwave brain damage and wanted a brain scan, but the doc told him they can’t do that there. Tew accused him of brushing him off and it kinda went downhill from there. Bryan went through his spiel afterwards about “MEDICAL COINTELPRO” and said he was going to find another hospital to go to.

    (Bryan always wants tests, not treatments, and there’s always some excuse or diversion of his doing that keeps him from actually receiving any kind of care. Bryan, if you have a specific problem, tell the doctor what problem you have instead of just demanding tests and let the doctor create a treatment plan, which you never do).

    I think it’s been a couple weeks since Bryan threatened the previous shelter with a lawsuit. As far as I know Bryan hasn’t followed up on his threats to sue, nor has Bryan claimed to have received any settlement money that he was demanding (I don’t seriously believe they will give him anything, of course).

    Bryan’s mouth looks pretty horrible these days (see attached). Not many teeth left.

    Oh and Bryan started talking about his “lust” again. I guess that means he’s rubbed one out inside his private room.

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  7. Bryan files a grievance over “rude” treatment by staff at the shelter. Talk about no self-awareness..

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    • Semi-related pet peeve, I hate the Youtube Shorts format, at least when viewed in a web browser on a PC or Mac. I want to zoom in to read what Bryan wrote but I don’t even get the “fullscreen” option with Shorts the way I do for a regular Youtube video.

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