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Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:09:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

  
   Also, I think it needs to be stated that citizenship alone isn’t sufficient to qualify an attack as a rebellion; if someone becomes a citizen and soon thereafter launches an attack, then that person’s motivation in becoming a citizen must be questioned. But for a native born or long-time citizen, then the issue becomes rather more murky.

Heck, the whole thing is murky anyway.

Yup.

   It is completely murky which is why I think that forcing the rules to be “Rebellion” or “Invasion” is an overly literal reading. These attacks are somewhere in between the two which in my opinion puts them into the spirit of the US Constitution with regards to habeas corpus.

Yes. And why I think Specter was being obtuse.

  
   And it really needs to be said that there are too many Daves and Tims in this discussion.

And not nearly enough “John’s”:-)

JOHN



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