[Reg Niwthgir]

"So, it is your position that Congress could pass a law mandating that all non-citizens within the US be rounded up and tortured to death, and that this law would not offend the Constitution?"

No. Don't be absurd.

So aliens do have some constitutional rights then? Then I think is incumbent upon you to explain to us precisely how the constitutional rights of aliens differ from those of citizens (apart from those places where the distinction is specifically spelled out in the Constitution; e.g., the right to vote or hold public office).

For example, are aliens protected against cruel and unusual punishment? Or are punishments less cruel and unusual when applied to aliens? For example, can a law be passed mandating that an alien convicted of shoplifting can be sentenced to have his fingernails pulled out without anesthesia (which would clearly be cruel and unusual punishment if committed upon a citizen)?

[H.Akston]

No, it's incumbent on Bob Barr to explain why he thinks those deported Chinese reporters who cheered the WTC bombing should have been protected by the 1st Amendment.

Mr. Barr made no exceptions. All I have to do is show one. There is one. Where there is one, there are likely more, and he is wrong.