[jaime1959]

>> On Padilla: "I'd like to talk a little bit about Jose Padilla. He's an American citizen, born in the Bronx, picked up in Chicago, held in an American prison, and now he is neither charged, nor allowed to see a lawyer. Why not? It seems the most basic of American instincts." <<

That's a good questions, don't you think?

I don’t have any problems with holding non-citizens like this, but citizens have constitutional rights. Do you like the State having this power to hold people indefinitely without charging them or allowing them access to counsel? I don’t.

[conserv13]

Thanks, I have said the same thing all along. Most people look at me like I am crazy. What Constitution?

Even Jeffrey Dahmer got due process and a trial