View Single Post
Old 06-12-08, 03:51 PM   #10
PeriscopeDepth
Sea Lord
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 1,894
Downloads: 6
Uploads: 0
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Quote:
Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
Quote:
Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Last time I checked, the US Constitution was for Americans. Maybe the justices see the whole world as America. Seems to be so lately.

Time to start telling our lacky's like Germany what to do since we own them anyway.

-S
It sets a VERY dangerous precedent. If anybody can be snatched up with absolutely no rights if called an enemy combatant, what stops the government from doing this to an American citizen?

PD
The Constitution. It protects our peoples and our laws. It is not Europes Constitution, nor is it the Middle Easts Constitution.

-S
No. Two US citizens and one legal US resident have been imprisoned indefinitely without being charged/able to confront their accusers.

See:
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Padilla v. Rumsfeld
Google "al-marri"

PD
PeriscopeDepth is offline   Reply With Quote