On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Mikhael Frieden wrote:
At 08:12 PM 11/18/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
At 10:34 PM -0700 11/18/97, Mikhael Frieden wrote:
At 06:53 PM 11/18/97 -0600, William H. Geiger III wrote:
(Geiger)
I think that there is plenty of case law of extending constutional protections to non-citizens. One that comes to mind were the rulings against California inwhich the courts ruled the they were obligated to provide schooling and social services to illegal aliens (a really fucked rulling IMNSHO but if some good can come out of it no sense not making use of it).
(Frieden)
In a much more fundamental sense, if they were not given constitutional protections they really could be rounded up and bussed across the border.
(May)
And what would be wrong with this?
(Frieden)
Not a damned thing. While in this country they are in the act of committing a crime.
And who is it that gets to decide what is a "crime" and what is not? The politicos, the bureaucrats, the hoodlums in DC and elsewhere who think they have the right to run the lives of everybody else. Again I ask the question: What gives the hoodlums in Washington DC the right to draw a line on a map and control people's travel across that line? ___________________________________________________________________ Jon Galt e-mail: jongalt@pinn.net website: http://www.pinn.net/~jongalt/ PGP public key available on my website. __________________________________________________________________