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...Padilla's path from the brig to a Miami courtroom has been riddled with fits and starts. On June 11 in New York (where he had first been held), the ACLU filed a petition for Padilla's release, arguing that as an American citizen captured on U.S. soil, he had to be let go or charged and tried in a civilian court. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in New York agreed, but then the government dodged a bullet: the Supreme Court ruled that Padilla's petition should have been filed in South Carolina, not New York...
...outsiders who may believe the Palestinian people indoctrinated and hate-filled, but reinforced by the fact that we did not hear a single Palestinian person express hatred or blame towards the Israeli people during our research—just incomprehension and despair. It would be hard for an Israeli citizen to have the honor of experiencing this first hand though, for signs at checkpoints to all towns in the occupied West Bank ban Israeli citizens from entry. I was concerned at the apparent ignorance shown by your contributor of the situation in the West Bank. Although it appears...
...hand, compared to the average American citizen, I should be proud that I know where Darfur is, that I care about the genocide raging there, that I raised money in high school to help the victims, that I question myself, that I even feel this moral struggle...
...Martel says he's in this thing for the long haul and will send books as long as Harper is in power. "He has to respond at some point. It would be unacceptable if a Canadian citizen wrote to the Prime Minister thoughtful letters with gifts twice a month, month after month, and there was no response," Martel says, insisting that his letters (posted on his website) are not petty or partisan. He notes that previous Conservative governments, including that of Brian Mulroney, have supported the arts. But what Martel and Harper each think is "unacceptable" may be very different...
...thing he was willing to stretch, or at least test, was the U.S. Constitution. It is debatable whether George, having been born to U.S. expatriates in Mexico, fit the Article II requirement that a President be a "natural born Citizen." His son was asked at the first Republican debate whether that requirement should be changed to allow, say, Austrian-born California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to run. "Probably not," Mitt answered...