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This Ted Cruz bill gives shocking new powers to ... Barack Obama?
Rare / Cox Media Group ^ | September 19, 2014 | Matt Purple

Posted on 09/19/2014 4:36:29 PM PDT by VitacoreVision

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1 posted on 09/19/2014 4:36:29 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision

So, where will you go when your citizenship is revoked? I don’t know much about New Zealand, but it looked nice on Babe. Singapore seems ok. What about the rest of you? Or maybe you can tell me where to go, not that you ever need an excuse before?


2 posted on 09/19/2014 4:44:07 PM PDT by rey
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To: VitacoreVision

There are already laws on the books that strip citizenship from those who fight for a foreign nation against America.

A narrow reading of the law could be interpreted to exclude the scum who fight for ISIS because they aren’t technically a nation.

Personally I can overlook the lack of nationhood of ISIS.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 4:46:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Sen. Cruz us giving progressives strokes. They’ve got to attack him from every conceivable angle. lol


4 posted on 09/19/2014 4:49:07 PM PDT by alstewartfan (You walk like Greta Garbo But you talk like Yogi Bear. What's going on? Al Stewart)
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I don’t think you can just “go” to New Zealand or Singapore. I suspect their immigration laws aren’t as lax as ours.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, and I hope I am. The U.S. used to be the place to go to to flee tyranny. Where to go from here?


5 posted on 09/19/2014 4:54:44 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: rey

i have been to New Zealand and I have relatives there. NZ is very liberal, extremely beautiful but VERY liberal.


6 posted on 09/19/2014 5:00:23 PM PDT by Ditter
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“If we do not pass this legislation, the consequence will be that Americans fighting alongside ISIS today may come home tomorrow with a U.S. passport, may come home to New York or Los Angeles or Houston or Chicago and innocent Americans may be murdered if the Senate does not act today,” Cruz said yesterday.

Here is where he is wrong in my view.

If they are caught in acts of sedition, try them, using the courts, or kill them on the battlefield as they are engaged in said acts.

To just decide their citizenship should be revoked without due process in their own country by fiat is wrong.


7 posted on 09/19/2014 5:00:25 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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Yeah. I know you just can’t go, but if they revoke my citizenship, I am a man without a country. I’m pretty sure if you lose your citizenship because you are labeled a suspected terrorist the number of countries open to you is slim and not good.


8 posted on 09/19/2014 5:07:55 PM PDT by rey
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To go to any of those countries you have to anti up big bucks for business, or have a skill they really want or you don’t get in.


9 posted on 09/19/2014 5:08:59 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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Panama, Uraquay (socialist), Ecuador, and Costa Rica are the easiest expat countries.


10 posted on 09/19/2014 5:10:27 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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Which law would cover Americans who are fighting for ISIS. I don't see how their actions could constitute treason because ISIS hasn't attacked the United States. And I don't think we've declared war against them. Furthermore, ISIS isn't even a nation so I don't think existing treason laws would cover this situation. Would love to be proven wrong, but I don't think it is a simple solution of charging these jihadists with treason.


11 posted on 09/19/2014 5:24:04 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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The Democrats who object are right. We should NEVER open the can-of-worms that any action (besides voluntary renunciation of citizenship) revokes citizenship. Nobody should have their citizenship revoked for ANY criminal conviction, even conviction of treason.

But they can be punished for same.

Should this pass, the unintended consequences will be horrific. Democrats will quickly abuse this law. Soon, any crime the Democrats don't like (such as owning the wrong firearm) could make you an UnPerson. Remember, once you are no longer a citizen, you have no protection under the Bill of Rights.

This idea of Cruz's gets the Nope Train treatment from me.


12 posted on 09/19/2014 5:29:02 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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Too hot. Isn’t interesting that so many terrorist nations are so hot? I think it is that and polygamy that make these guys want to blow themselves up and it isn’t so much the multiple wives that makes them nuts, it is the multiple mother in laws that make them suicidal.


13 posted on 09/19/2014 5:38:28 PM PDT by rey
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You are right, if your fighting for ISIS I say blow your damn brains out and let the world be done with you.

Cruz is an attorney and he’s very good at it, so he knows how to write a bill that doesn’t do what you say it does.

So tell me, why do you support ISIS?


14 posted on 09/19/2014 5:44:35 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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My citizenship? Well I won’t be joining up with ISIS so I am not worried about it. Any scum that joins ISIS should not only lose their citizenship but should be in prison or shot - my preference is to kill them.


15 posted on 09/19/2014 5:46:24 PM PDT by plain talk
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How long will it take for republicans or christians to be declared a terrorist group and citizenship revoked.

It’s been done before. You might remember the jews in germany. they were not even considered persons.

if he wants to start a crisis where he can order government thugs to shoot people he doesn’t like, that’s how he can provoke his own desired crisis to exploit.


16 posted on 09/19/2014 5:47:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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and if you think he won’t consider revoking citizenship this way,

consider he wants to grant citizenship via an executive order, for millions and millions of people he does like. whether he has the authority or not - and he doesn’t.


17 posted on 09/19/2014 5:48:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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My citizenship? Well I won’t be joining up with ISIS so I am not worried about it.

Yeah, because once a precendent (like losing citizenship) has been set, we have NEVER seen Democrats twist and abuse the precendent.

Own the wrong gun? UnPerson.

Eat meat against regulations? UnPerson.

Too much carbon output? UnPerson.

Citizenship should NEVER be lost for the conviction of ANY crime, even treason. We should apply the usual punishments, instead.

18 posted on 09/19/2014 5:50:00 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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Plus, as Millhiser notes, the crime of aiding and abetting ISIS is already covered in the Constitution: it’s treason, and treason has a much higher evidentiary standard than just a “preponderance of the evidence.”

Hmmm...just how many folks have ever been charged with treason in this country anyhow?

This is the list, according to Wikipedia:

Robert Henry Best, convicted of treason on April 16, 1948 and served a life sentence.

John Brown, convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1859 and executed for attempting to organize armed resistance to slavery.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who is frequently identified with "Tokyo Rose" convicted 1949. Subsequently pardoned by President Gerald Ford.

Governor Thomas Dorr 1844, convicted of treason against the state of Rhode Island; see Dorr Rebellion; released in 1845; civil rights restored in 1851; verdict annulled in 1854.

Mildred Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally", convicted of treason on March 8, 1949; served 12 years of a 10- to 30-year prison sentence.

Herbert Hans Haupt, German-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was convicted of treason in 1942 and executed after being named as a German spy by fellow German spies defecting to the United States.

Tomoya Kawakita, sentenced to death for treason in 1952, but eventually released by President John F. Kennedy to be deported to Japan.

Martin James Monti, United States Army Air Forces pilot, convicted of treason for defecting to the Waffen SS in 1944. He was paroled in 1960.

William Bruce Mumford, convicted of treason and hanged in 1862 for tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War.

Aaron Dwight Stevens, took part in John Brown's raid and was executed in 1860 for treason against Virginia.

Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, all convicted by military tribunal and hanged on July 7, 1865 for treason and conspiracy related to the Lincoln assassination.

Samuel Mudd, convicted with the above, pardoned by President Andrew Johnson after assisting in the containment of a yellow fever outbreak.

Philip Vigol and John Mitchell, convicted of treason and sentenced to hanging; pardoned by George Washington; see Whiskey Rebellion.

19 posted on 09/19/2014 5:53:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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WHy do you think I support ISIS? I support this ISIS:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072516/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdBRLV6PGro
Joanna Cameron is kinda hot.

What the bill says is they can revoke your citizenship on a preponderance of the evidence not beyond reasonable doubt. As they like to label veterans and 2nd amendment folks as terrorist or potential terrorist, and it isn’t really a stretch to get a jury or judge to believe that, especially the 9th circuit, there is a chance a few Freepers could be looking for a new home.


20 posted on 09/19/2014 5:55:32 PM PDT by rey
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