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To: BCR #226
If we bend on this, why not bend on the right to a speedy trial, or due process?

POWs deserve a speedy trial?

Respectfully, you confuse civil acts with acts of war.

Again: when a person in Germany, who is not a citizen of the U.S. calls people, which U.S. judge has the authority to grant a warrant to wiretap? None. This is foreign policy. That he happens to call someone in the U.S. from time to time, should not make him immune to military surveillance.

160 posted on 02/21/2006 12:16:35 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

So a US citizen is counted as a POW? Come on... Let's get a bit of perspective here... This is a very dangerous line that is being tread upon and our freedoms are being put in great danger by them. If you can't see that, I pity you.

I agree, that any non-US person should be treated as a POW in the current situation. HOWEVER, any action taken regarding a US citizen should be handled by a civil court under civil law including warrants for any actions taken. We are NOT in a declared state of war according to the Constitution at this moment so the Government does not have the right to suspend our rights for it's convienence.

Remember what Franklin said, "Those that would give up freedom for safety deserve neither."

Mike


163 posted on 02/22/2006 5:34:24 AM PST by BCR #226
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