Originally posted by DaMod
reply to post by hp1229
Possible, but even his father was an American citizen who also was due the same rights.
What rights are these exactly? Once an American citizen "sides up" for the enemy in wartime, or becomes a participant in an insurrection effort, he
becomes an enemy combatant and is subject to the rules of engagement in wartime. That means if we find you, we can kill you. In fact, we are going
to try to find you...just so we can kill you.
The rules are different from an Foreign Enemy than they are for a United States Citizen.
Once you become an enemy combatant, or as some would describe an illegal combatant, you cross a line. You are no longer considered a person suspected
of engaging in criminal activities, and thus entitled to legal "due process". You are considered an enemy of the state, a combatant for an enemy
with which we are in a state of war. The location of your birth, or your citizenship status, ceases to become a matter of any legal consequence.
Our constitution does not protect foreigners, but it does protect Citizens regardless of the crime.
As already noted, the U.S. Constitution provides the Government special powers during times of war and insurrection. During the Civil War, for
example...were lawyers used to put down the Confederate States, or were guns and cannons used? Weren't Confederate Soldiers American citizens
too?
Are you suggesting that the U.S. Government of the day was required to take out Indictments on each and every one of the combatants in the
Confederacy...and were required to bring each of them in front of a jury of their peers, as opposed to engaging them in battle?
The order should have been apprehend not bomb simply because of the fact above. We have these rights for a reason, and we have due process for
a reason.. No exceptions.. The rules of Law are the rules of law!
Yes, but I would submit that "the law" is a rather large and complex body of instructions and standards...and that you are perhaps not fully aware
of the aspects of it that apply to cases such as this.
