Comments on: Padilla Case Heats Up http://donklephant.com/2005/12/28/padilla-case-heats-up/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ford4x4 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/28/padilla-case-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-4835 ford4x4 Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:09:35 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/28/padilla-case-heats-up/#comment-4835 I wonder why the US hasn't declared that: When he bacame an enemy combatant, he revoked his own citizenship, and therefore isn't afforded the same rights as an American citizen. There is no doubt that he joined Al-Qaeda, and Al-Qaeda can be defined as a "foreign army". Joining a foriegn army (or being elected to office in a foriegn country) is grounds to have your citizenship revoked. Wouldn't that have made this case a little less troublesome? I wonder why the US hasn’t declared that: When he bacame an enemy combatant, he revoked his own citizenship, and therefore isn’t afforded the same rights as an American citizen. There is no doubt that he joined Al-Qaeda, and Al-Qaeda can be defined as a “foreign army”.
Joining a foriegn army (or being elected to office in a foriegn country)
is grounds to have your citizenship revoked.

Wouldn’t that have made this case a little less troublesome?

]]> By: BrianOfAtlanta http://donklephant.com/2005/12/28/padilla-case-heats-up/comment-page-1/#comment-4833 BrianOfAtlanta Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:12:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/28/padilla-case-heats-up/#comment-4833 Luttig is rebuking the administration, but not for being too tough. He's rebuking them for being too easy on Padilla, for not keeping him in military custody indefinitely. I can see Luttig's point - if the administration truly believes that it has the power to keep enemy combatants indefinitely, then do so and don't send these mixed signals. Luttig is rebuking the administration, but not for being too tough. He’s rebuking them for being too easy on Padilla, for not keeping him in military custody indefinitely. I can see Luttig’s point – if the administration truly believes that it has the power to keep enemy combatants indefinitely, then do so and don’t send these mixed signals.

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