Posted on 05/05/2010 11:28:19 PM PDT by thecodont
A day after suggesting that U.S. citizenship laws should be changed to strip American terrorists of their nationality, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has introduced legislation to do just that. His bill amends existing law that revokes the citizenship of any American who joins a foreign military.
"I'm now putting together legislation [so that] any individual American citizen who is found to be involved in a foreign terrorist organization, as defined by the Department of State, would be deprived of their citizenship rights," Lieberman told reporters Tuesday. "If you have joined an enemy of the United States in attacking the United States to try to kill Americans I think you sacrifice your rights of citizenship."
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It's not clear from the proposal when a person would be designated a terrorist for purposes of revoking their citizenship, but Lieberman also sided with Republicans who said that terror suspect Faisal Shahzad should not have been read his Miranda rights after his arrest. "If [authorities] make a judgment that this was a terrorist act, the person should be turned over to the military," he said.
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Believe it or not, one of those questions was, “Are you a terrorist?”
He obviously answered “no”
Lying on that document is enough to revoke that citizenship.
Absolutely in the old days when someone joined the military and lied on their info forms, they could be bounced out of the military and face a jail sentence.
Later on when we vetted them and ran background checks on them, any lie in those forms could result in discharge and or jail time.
Didn’t soldiers who fought for the Confederacy during the War Between the States lose their US citizenship? If they did, it seems analogous.
Anybody remember Richard Jewell? Under this blatantly unconstitutional bit of legislation he could have had his citizenship taken away.
The idea that the government can take away the citizenship of someone who has not been tried or convicted is a scary one to me. You know damn well that a corrupt administration, such as the current one, could use it on political enemies.
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