If they are not citizens they have no constitutional rights, and if they are citizerns they they are traitors and need to have their rights taken away. I guarentee that if they heard my phone calls they would be able to tell in five minutes that I am not a terrorist. If they had a need to open my mail I would let them because I have nothing to hide. So why do you want to give them rights when we all know that they will use our system against us so that they can kill me, you, your family, and every other American you know, no matter their political affiliation?
2007-01-06 06:10:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Actually, you do not have to be a citizen to have constitutional rights. I am a legal immigrant and I have most rights enumerated in the Constitution. Those rights are there for a reason. I used to be perplexed by the Second Amendment but then, on this board, I read a convincing argument for it. The gist was that it is there to stop government tyranny. All other rights conferred by the Constitution protect us from government tyranny.
Now, what your question really refers to is the Geneva Convention, ie, how we treat prisoners of war. That used to be simple. two countries went to war against each other, people got killed and captured and, at the end of the war those lucky enough to still be alive were returned to their homeland. It is not quite so simple now. There is no official declaration of war against al-Quaeda. There cannot be. However, that should not mean that government can ride roughshod over rights which have stood the citizens of this country in good stead for over 200 years. It is incumbent upon those chosen by the American people to carry out the people's business to design a set of rules which deals with realistic terrorist threats without infringing on our basic set of freedoms.
The Bill of Rights was written over 200 years ago. It should be defended, not necessarily for today, but for the time in the future when we may have a real tyrant in othe White House.
2007-01-06 06:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by skip 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
really? if they heard your phone call, they would be able to tell in five minutes that you aren't a terrorist huh?
a conversation of two terrorists talking about bomb components:
"hi sweetheart, I am at the store getting a few things. Do you have any tape left? i have a few presents for some special people I need to wrap. do you have any of it left, or do i need to pick some more up?"
that isn't a made up story, that was a conversation busted by Australians of two terrorist talking about some kind of bomb components. do any of your conversations, sound anything like that?
or even the old drug dealer conversations:
"hey man whats going on? I have the hundred bucks i borrowed from you last week. Are you going to be out tonight so i can give it to you before I end up spending it?"
I guess none of your conversations sound anything like that do they?
also, they aren't terrorists, until they have been found guilty, guilty by association does not make you a terrorist, it makes you a suspect, and that is all you need to be, to be whisked away to wherever they keep terrorist suspect these days!
2007-01-06 06:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by qncyguy21 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
quite? in the journey that they heard your telephone call, they might have the flair to inform in 5 minutes that you at the instantaneous are not a terrorist huh? a verbal substitute of two terrorists talking about bomb aspects: "hi sweetheart, i'm on the save getting some themes. Do you've any tape left? I actual have some substances for some particular human beings i'd opt to wrap. do you've any of it left, or do i'd opt to %. some more desirable up?" which couldn't a made up tale, that grew to develop into correct right into a verbal substitute busted through potential of Australians of two terrorist talking about some style of bomb aspects. do any of your conversations, sound something like that? or perchance the previous drug broking service conversations: "hi guy whats taking position? I actual have the hundred bucks i borrowed from you very last week. Are you going to be out this evening so i substances you it to you until eventually now i ultimately finally end up spending it?" i imagine none of your conversations sound something like that do they? also, they at the instantaneous are not terrorists, until eventually they have been stumbled immediately to blame, to blame through potential of affiliation does not make you a terrorist, it makes you a suspect, and that is all you'll probable manage to opt to be, to be whisked away to everywhere they preserve terrorist suspect on the instantaneous!
2016-10-16 23:52:28 · answer #3 · answered by sherie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One does not have to be a citizen to have constitutional rights. (why do we have to explain reality to Republicans?) Everyone on US soil is under the constitution. That includes Gitmo.
Accused terrorists are criminals, not some special category. Accused criminals are protected by the constitution.
And don't be so sure you have nothing to hide. You don't know every detail of the lives of everyone you are in contact with. Someone you know may be an animal rights activist in secret. The FBI has declared them the greatest threat to America. If you contact one of them completely innocently, the FBI WILL open a file on you.
And you will BEG the ACLU for help.
2007-01-06 06:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"... if they are citizerns they [sic] they are traitors and need to have their rights taken away."
Great, except we don't know if they are traitors until AFTER we've violated their civil rights.
If we go around randomly violating the civil rights of ordinary citizens to find out if they might be terrorists, then we have become a police state. That is the worst thing that can happen to this country. I would rather be killed by terrorists myself than give up the liberties that make us Americans.
2007-01-06 06:18:49 · answer #5 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
No one cares about giving terrorists rights, they care about giving SUSPECTED terrorists rights (such as the right to a fair trial), how can you establish if someone is guilty if they don't have a fair trial? The potential exists for the government to start labeling people they don't like as "terrorists" and then ship them off to Cuba or like.
You really are foolish if you think something like this could never happen in the USA. The purpose of having rights and freedoms is to PROTECT us from the government.
2007-01-06 06:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Nick F 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
All Americans should want to follow the Constitution, ESPECIALLY those government officials who have sworn to "Preserve, protect and defend...". One of the latter is infamously well known to have subsequently said the "Constitution is just a GD piece of paper"! Wanna guess who that is?
2007-01-06 06:36:29 · answer #7 · answered by rhino9joe 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. But Liberals want Americans to keep their rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
2007-01-06 06:14:28 · answer #8 · answered by Sean 4 · 9⤊ 1⤋
why dont you consider trying to educate them?
Do you love war or something?
Some issues can be settled without force (i know its an alien concept to you). Consider that. Its because of actions like what you are implying that people hate us. Its because of ignorant people like you that there are terrorists in the world.
2007-01-06 06:18:53 · answer #9 · answered by sur2124 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I'm not sure I see your point... spying is a violation of the constitution... this is how you choose to protect it, by defying it?
2007-01-06 06:23:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋