Liberal Lunacy at its Finest

Dear NeonLeon:
I appreciate your thoughts against prosecuting terrorism suspects in federal courts rather than military tribunals. I must, however, disagree with your conclusion. We can have federal court trials for suspected terrorists while providing for our physical and economic security.
The rights and liberties provided for by the Constitution apply to everybody. We do not get to pick and choose when or to whom the government of the United States applies those principles.
Sincerely,

Kurt Schrader,
Member of Congress


Dear Congressman Schrader:
Thank you for your timely response in regard to granting First and Fifth Amendment rights to foreign nationals who have been captured by our military in foreign battlefields as those foreign nationals supported and abetted the enemies of the United States, whether in-or out of-uniform.
I appreciate your position, untenable though it may be, that our Constitution offers certain clearly defined and limited protections to Citizens as well as to sojourners: the so-called "Miranda Rights" are exemplary of that concept.

However, enemy combatants are just that, combatants who are our sworn enemies. They are not pickpockets, not embezzlers, not burglars. They shoot at, and kill,  American soldiers.  They fly planes loaded full of innocent travellers into buildings filled with innocent workers.   They blow up trains and automobiles and nightclubs and they slaughter by the thousands innocent lives, all for some twisted anti-Semitic, anti-American bloodlust.

Please point out to me the specific passage in the United States Constitution which affords citizen's rights to foreign combatants. Please.

I await your response.
 
Note:  His is the sort of thinking that got us 9/11'd in the first place.   But we have a Commander in Chief who has never been even so much as a Cub Scout:  what did you expect, another Patton?