Joe Lieberman Should be Disbarred for His Disregard for the American Justice System (He’s Lucky He Gets to Keep His Citizenship)
OPS_admin | May 07, 2010 | Comments 0
Quick. Someone strip Joe Lieberman of his citizenship before he causes actual damage to the country. Oh, wait. I forgot; we don’t engage in that kind of Orwellian nonsense in this country.
Yet.
You probably heard about the latest idea from the “independent” senator from Connecticut (who seems to be independent of nothing more than reality) to strip citizenship from people who are accused of having ties to terrorism. Somehow this incredibly stupid idea got codified into an actual bill, which was introduced yesterday. The fact that this knee-jerk response is now present in the Congressional Record is an anathema to our justice system.
Countless questions have been raised about this ridiculous notion advanced by Lieberman. Like, for one: “Why?”
After all, what good does this actually accomplish? The ability to try someone in a military tribunal comes easier when the accused is not a U.S. citizen, but then again, what’s the problem with criminal court? And apparently the Miranda rights argument advanced by Lieberman is erroneous as well.
So why would a graduate of Yale Law, who should know better, introduce such a legally fraught, Draconian law?
Oh, of course! I should have known. Thanks for spelling this one out, Rep. Charlie Dent:
Filed Under: Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
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