[muggs]

and Jose Padilla, a US citizen (someone who probably shouldn't have gotten citizenship - if we had listened to one of the real Thomas Jefferson's warnings) is given a military tribunal. That's backwards.

Maybe I'm wrong, as I often am, but I thought Jose Padilla was born in Puerto Rico, which would make him a U.S. citizen from birth, the same as someone born in Ohio.

[nopardons]

Jose Padilla was born in BROOKLYN, N.Y., USA . His parents were born in Puerto Rico. Now, since Jose and Johnny Jihad were both born in the continental USA, of American citizens, there isn't any dofference between these traitors' status and any FREEPER, who was born in the USA, of American born , citizen parents.