Posted on 09/24/2014 11:05:33 AM PDT by John Semmens
The suggestion that Americans leaving the country to join ISIS ought to forfeit their passports was rejected by Iowa Democratic Congressional candidate Staci Appel during her televised debate with her GOP opponent David Young.
“The right to travel is fundamental to what it means to be an American,” Appel maintained. “A person shouldn’t have to worry that someone else will judge the reasons for his travel as illegitimate. What if the American tries to join ISIS but is rejected for some reason? Shouldn’t he still have a home country to return to? What if he fights for ISIS for a while and needs to come back for some R&R or to visit with family? What if he tires of slaying unbelievers and wants to leave ISIS? Do we really want to bar the door to his return?”
Young added his own questions to Appel’s litany. “What if ISIS sends this American back to the United States on a mission of mayhem? Might not guarding against this possibility be a good reason to throw up a roadblock against it by revoking the passports of those known to have left the US in order to join ISIS?”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2014/09/19/dem-operative-says-obama-planning-october-surprise/
....”How DO these people who are supposed to be our leaders get where they are, if they are NOT aware of fundamental, long-standing rules and laws that the REST of us LIVE BY?”....
They’re aware...they simply don’t care about such thing and neither does the public voting for them...it’s called a ‘lawless society’.
Even IF that story is satire, it says a lot that it is indistinguishable from the daily and hourly disclosure of crimes and other misdeeds of people who are supposed to know better and DO NOT!
There have been laws about U.S. citizens becoming mercenaries, extending back into the ‘80’s, and beyond.
Back then, the term ‘soldier of fortune’ was the word.
They should lose their heads!
these asahats’want to tax use every mile we drive.
cops’scream at drivers that travlling by car is a privilege not a right.
yet this putz says isis trainees have a right to travel and can’t have their passport revoked.
i expect to see God, very, very soon. the world goes more and more insane.and the damn insane ones can’t of course, see that it is.
geez i ddn’t check the source.
given what is news today, my reaction isn’t far afield.
Exactly!
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