On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:08:24 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:52:57 -0500, George Shirley
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Go here and read all about it. We rent GITMO and have since 1903.
>>>
>>> http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...tanamo-bay.htm
>>
>> OK, I stand corrected. It's the only US military base located in a
>> communist country - which tells you Castro isn't everything they
>> wanted us to believe about him.
>>
>> In any case, it's a US military base and where our troops go,
>> constitutional protection follows.... unless it's the Bush
>> administration trumping up terrorist charges. I'd prefer to think
>> we're not like the North Koreans who jailed and tortured a woman for 3
>> years just because she sang a traditional South Korean song in the
>> privacy of her own home.
>>
>>
>I'm not going to argue the point with you any farther but you seriously
>need to do some reading on when and where constitutional protections
>apply. Not just some blog on the net but serious reading.

that's all well and good, but in large part the constitution is
designed to protect the individual from depredations by the
government. to bend it to deny people's rights is small-minded
indeed, if not a perversion.

your pal,
blake