10-01-2011, 12:10 PM
We don't let felons carry weapons or vote. Why should we allow terrorists, not matter where they were born, to have the protection of citizens they chose to kill?
Enemy combatants don't have the same protections as regular citizens. Did you know you give up your citizenship in the US when you take an oath to be part of another country? That same principal applies when you give your oath to the Taliban. I looked it up, you renounce your citizenship when you fight for a foreign army.
This guy fought for the Taliban. We made him give up his citizenship. You ARE NOT an American the second you side with the enemy. How you live is a better indicator or your citizenship than where you were born.
"Yaser Esam Hamdi (born September 26, 1980) is a now-former American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It is claimed by the U.S. government that he was fighting against U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance forces with the Taliban. He was named by the Bush administration as an "illegal enemy combatant", and detained for almost three years without receiving any charges.
He was initially detained at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was later transferred to military jails in Virginia and South Carolina after it became known that he was a U.S. citizen.
Critics of his imprisonment claimed his civil rights were violated and that he was denied due process of law under the U.S. Constitution, including imprisonment without formal charges and denial of legal representation.
On June 28, 2004, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the United States Supreme Court rejected the U.S. government's attempts to detain Hamdi indefinitely without trial.
On September 23, 2004, the United States Justice Department released Hamdi to Saudi Arabia on the condition that he give up his U.S. citizenship."
Enemy combatants don't have the same protections as regular citizens. Did you know you give up your citizenship in the US when you take an oath to be part of another country? That same principal applies when you give your oath to the Taliban. I looked it up, you renounce your citizenship when you fight for a foreign army.
This guy fought for the Taliban. We made him give up his citizenship. You ARE NOT an American the second you side with the enemy. How you live is a better indicator or your citizenship than where you were born.
"Yaser Esam Hamdi (born September 26, 1980) is a now-former American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It is claimed by the U.S. government that he was fighting against U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance forces with the Taliban. He was named by the Bush administration as an "illegal enemy combatant", and detained for almost three years without receiving any charges.
He was initially detained at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was later transferred to military jails in Virginia and South Carolina after it became known that he was a U.S. citizen.
Critics of his imprisonment claimed his civil rights were violated and that he was denied due process of law under the U.S. Constitution, including imprisonment without formal charges and denial of legal representation.
On June 28, 2004, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the United States Supreme Court rejected the U.S. government's attempts to detain Hamdi indefinitely without trial.
On September 23, 2004, the United States Justice Department released Hamdi to Saudi Arabia on the condition that he give up his U.S. citizenship."