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To: cryptical
So is this dissenting judge saying that Constitutional rights do NOT extend to the people in DC, since it's not a state? That brings up some very interesting ideas...

Mark

702 posted on 03/09/2007 10:26:17 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: MarkL

And one might wonder what she and her brethren are doing there in the first place if the constitution doesn't apply to D.C., lol!


719 posted on 03/10/2007 12:21:55 AM PST by Jezebelle (Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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To: MarkL; robertpaulsen
So is this dissenting judge saying that Constitutional rights do NOT extend to the people in DC, since it's not a state?

Constitutional rights would apply to people in the Federal District of Columbia even without the 14th Amendment

Which makes United States Code Title 18 Section 241 especially relevant:

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

If two or more Ninja-masked agents of the federal District of Columbia kick in a citizen's door and threaten him with deadly force as a result of that citizen's exercising his rights under the 2nd Amendment, by my reading of the above those agents themselves become subject to fine, imprisonment, or execution
774 posted on 03/10/2007 6:28:42 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
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