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2005-11-22 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tu3031 2005-11-22 10:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 About time. Try him fair and hang him fair.

I do believe, I must say, that all American citizens should have their day in court. We should never have a situation in which the government can hold a citizen indefinitely. It's one of the basic rights of citizenship, and one that doesn't apply to foreigners captured on foreign soil in a time of war and interred in a facility on foreign soil.

Posted by Jatch Glock7171 2005-11-22 11:46|| 2005-11-22 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Ack, that was me from a different computer.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-11-22 11:47|| 2005-11-22 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 While we (apparently) can't do it in his case, among the penalties for terrorism should be stripping of citizenship. Yes, I realize he was born in the US. Doesn't matter.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-22 12:38|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-22 12:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, right on.

Robert, that's a bridge too far for me. But then again, I'm one of those who actually value my citizenship.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2005-11-22 12:44|| 2005-11-22 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, there are precedents of stripping US citizens of their citizenship if they take up arms against this country for a hostile power. More than 2500 Americans were conscripted into the German & Italian armies, and about 1300 into the Japanese military, during World War II. The last I remember reading, voluntarily entering the military services of a foreign power, whether an ally or an enemy, can be used to end US citizenship. We need one of Rantburg's lawyers to check it out and give us the straight skinny.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-11-22 13:32|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-11-22 13:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Using the lefts dictionary of law this would mean that Padilla is guilty and wee should move to the sentencing phase.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-11-22 14:49|| 2005-11-22 14:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Officially, thank gosh it's on -- so that it's immune from Supreme Court wrangling. I distinctly recall Antonin Scalia's ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld being, guess what? "Charge or release."

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-11-22 16:01|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-11-22 16:01|| Front Page Top

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