Yep, Prince Jeb scares this democrat, though I don't quite know why. His ascendancy to the throne is inevitable.
The Constitution is, and has always been, generally applicable to all "persons," who are located on U.S. soil, regardless of their citizenship. However, the Constitution does not generally apply to those who are not located on U.S. soil, or to those persons who enter the U.S. with the intent to destroy the nation. The primary reason why the "enemy combatants" are interred at Guantanamo (something which is not widely known to the public), is because the U.S. has a 99 year lease on the land from Cuba, and it has been legally determined that the prisoners are not, and never have been, on U.S. soil, and therefore they are not entitled to the general protection of the Constitution, which might have applied had they been transferred to a prison within the U.S. The President has filled the gap in the gray areas of law by maintaining the prisoners are enemy combatants and not entitled to prisoner of war privileges, while simultaneously keeping them off of U.S. soil so as to deprive them of any privileges under the Constitution. Thus, they exists within a legal netherworld, where the only law that applies to them is the oldest law of all -- might makes right. Which, I suppose, is as it should be, since this is the only law that most of the enemy combatants likely recognize as valid.
The two points that I have been informing most of my friends and associates about since day one. Thanks for the confirmation!
http://www.counterpunch.org/paul07232005.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act More on how the Patriot Act takes away civil liberties and violates the Constitution: http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.05D.JVB.Patriot.htm http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.06D.JVB.Patriot.htm
I'm a Democrat, and a liberal, and I would love to see McCain win the Republican nomination. I respect McCain and his politics, and I believe he would make a good president, even if I don't agree with him on every issue. And Democrat who can beat McCain would probably make a good president, too. Martin
I think McCain wining the Repub. nomination would be advantageous to the Democrats because he is divisive among the Repubs. I would like to see Giuliani run. I think he'd handily defeat anyone the Dems come up with, especially Hillary. Hillary v.s. Condi? That would be interesting.....