Have I missed something? What are all these people talking about when they mention that we are trampling the "Rights" of terrorists or foreigners in our country? Have I been asleep for 200 years and someone went back and altered the U.S. Constitution?
Our U.S. Constitution provides protections and "RIGHTS" only to United States citizens. It is there to keep them from unlawful searches, protect their freedom of speech, protect their right to own a gun and their right to vote. You know "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."
People who are not citizens of this country either by birth or naturalization are entitled to NOTHING! It doesn't matter if they are here on a visa (or MasterCard for that matter), live in Canada and commute...or cross over the border without authorization (nice way of saying stowaway), they may be interrogated with reasonable regard to their humanity. Now before anyone else bashes me as a supporter of torture, everyone needs to be treated with human decency and respect however, anyone not a citizen of the U.S. is NOT entitled to a public defender, not entitled to Social security, not entitled to public education or any other of the ever-increasing government handouts.
It is time we recognize again that being an American is a privilege and an honor, one that should not be taken lightly. Our freedoms and RIGHTS are reserved for our citizens and no one else. If you like the perks, sign on the dotted line!
Nov 30, 2005
Rights? - I think the word has been bastardized
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The world may not but we're not talking about the world. You are stuck in the group that thinks that at some point we joined "The Divided States of Earth" - We live in a country with laws that govern specifically our country and its' citizens. Yes it is as simple as my post implies.
I don't believe that we should hold people for no reason..on that we agree (gasp!). However the peeople at Gitmo aren't just people who were passing by on the street one day and someone grabbed them up. They are people who took up arms against our country during war and would do so again immediately upon release.
Timothy Mcveigh is a U.S. citizen and is (while I don't like it) entitled to a full and reasonable and fair trial, is entitled to a lawyer free of charge should he chose it.
In regards to your comment on being taken prisoner by some foriegn government without charge... that's been going on for centuries outside the U.S. so nothing is new about that.
We do not police or govern the world, if we did it would be a whole different one.
For once I agree whole heartedly with you
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