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echo: barktopus
to: Ad
from: Geo.
date: 2007-06-14 06:14:50
subject: Re: `a landmark victory for the rule of law and a defeat for unchecked

From: "Geo." 

We corrected that mistake, I'm sure we'll correct Bush's mistake at some
point too. Doesn't make it any less of a mistake though does it?

Geo.

"Ad"  wrote in
message news:466fd61a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Geo. wrote:
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:466dc043$2{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> You state this incorrectly.  This person was a legal resident of the USA
>>> who has basically same constitutional rights as a citizen.
>>
>> Odd, I don't see the word "citizen" in the following:
>>
>> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
>> that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
>> that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to
>> secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
>> just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of
>> Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
>> People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
>> its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
>> as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
>>
>> Geo.
>
> It never applied to non-whites for a long period of time so why should it
> apply to non-US citizens now?
>
> Adam

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