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To: ctdonath2
It's absurd to think Congress meant to apply foreign law, all the way from my speeding ticket in Canada to not voting for Saddam in Iraq (punishment: termination of your family), to the enjoyment of rights in the USA.

If that was the intent of congress, they could have simply said 'conviced in any court of the United States'. They didn't, so it's not the job of judicial activists to read such langage into the statute.

81 posted on 04/26/2005 10:27:32 AM PDT by ClintonBeGone (Malvone = MMK)
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To: ClintonBeGone

Sure they could have said that. It's nuts to think they needed to. It's absurd to think Congress meant to deny a woman her 2nd Amendment rights because she got caught driving a car in Saudi Arabia.

By what rationalle does the Bill Of Rights get subjected to the whims of foreign courts???


94 posted on 04/26/2005 10:38:40 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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