From Raw Story, Friday, April 24, 2009
“A Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are not “persons” according to it’s interpretation of a statute involving religious freedom.
The ruling sprang from an appeal of Rasul v. Rumsfeld, which was thrown out in Jan. 2008. “The court affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the constitutional and international law claims, and reversed the district court’s decision that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) applied to Guantanamo detainees, dismissing those claims as well,” the Center for Constitutional Rights said….”
This is the main argument for my contention that the U.S. Constitution is a Nazi-style document (that is, Federalist = neo-con = self-defining = Fascist = National Socialist = Nazi).
How hard would it have been to have included this clause in the Constitution:
“For the purposes of this Constitution, a “person” will be defined as any human being (regardless of their nationality, race or religion), who falls under the jurisdiction or control of the U.S. Federal Government or branch or representative thereof, in any way whatsoever.” ?
A proper Constitution (if there can be such a thing) would at least define the most imortant terms it uses within the document itself.
ps. Guantanamo has 2 “n”s. The original headline had a typo.