Is EVERYONE protected by the U.S. Constitution?

I think the concept of Natural Rights transcends the Constitution. God/nature gave us our rights, not a piece of paper (it just affirmed and protected them).

Thus, all people should have "Constitutional" rights.

Unless we are at war...

"its just a G** d*** piece of paper "
-george bush

I agree with you, but we still have to respect international law, and remember that US citizens were/are in Guantanimo.

as American Nationals.
The Liberty a society retains is inversely proportional to the number of Lawyers in the Government.

"The important point is that the Constitution doesn't apply to Americans, it doesn't apply to citizens, it doesn't even apply to "people." It applies to the federal government. The body of the Constitution tells the federal government what it is allowed to do, and in some places it explains how to do it (election procedures and such). The Bill of Rights tells the federal government what it is not allowed to do . . ."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne27.html

Thank you for bringing it up. I'm very interested in what DPers think. I have not thought a lot about this yet.

Every DPer should read this post.

There are 51 constitutions in this country. Each of us is "protected" by two of them.

The first is our individual state constitution. The second is the Constitution of the United States.

Each of these describe the limits of government in certain areas. It is the limits on government that by contrast give us our rights.

It really does not matter whether they are a US citizen or not. The State (ie, government) has rules of conduct. The state cannot violate these rules. They apply to the state, not the individual.

As far as other "rights" such as voting or participating in social programs, these are justly conferred as benefits of citizenship.

We flew planes over Iraq, dropping millions of pamphlets all over the cities to let the people there know we would be back shortly to round up terrorists and that anyone who would help us find the terrorists would be given what is to them a small fortune.


This created a finger-pointing frenzy - everyone pointing a finger at everyone else, for no other reason than to get their hands on monetary reward. Those who had fingers pointed at them were snatched up off of the streets, with absolutely no investigation into the accusations against them, and whisked off to a military prison. All it took for them to be arrested and branded as terrorists was a pointed finger.


Now it is being said of many of these "terrorists" that they are too dangerous to ever be tried OR released. So we have a military prison full of people with no formal charges against them, and who will never have a trial to determine whether or not the charges against them might be true, and who will never be let go.


Constitution or not, this is WRONG to do to ANYONE, ANYWHERE in the world, for ANY REASON! We see the detainees as terrorists. The rest of the entire world sees US as terrorists.


I bet your attitude will be different if/when this happens to us on our own soil, which may not be too unrealistic in the near future.

The bill of rights are unalienable rights granted by our creator. So, the distinction must be in who created these mass murderers, correct? So only those people created by OUR creator are eligible for human rights. Glad you brought this to light. Why even bother with a trial for mass murderers anyway. since they're mass murderers already, a trial would be redundant and we should do away with them immediately, or at least as soon as we've obtained information from them with whatever means necessary. Remember, being born to a certain person or certain geographical area mean inherent birth rights above those of all other human beings. It's a good thing we fought for our independence from royalty.