{"id":100,"date":"2010-09-07T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-10-02T18:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:05:53","slug":"politics-7-september-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2010\/09\/07\/politics-7-september-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: 7 September 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read the entire <i>Constitution of the United States<\/i> today for a regular article that I&#8217;m about to write. What I found was that there are a total of 22 references of &#8220;citizen.&#8221; And pretty much without exception, these references have to do with voting: who can be president, senator, representative, and who can vote for them. I bring this up because back a while, I heard some people talking about how only citizens have rights of Habeas Corpus. This is what the Constitution says about this in Article I Section 9: &#8220;The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.&#8221; You see: no &#8220;citizen&#8221; there. Conservatives really like to say that the Bill of Rights is just about citizens. It isn&#8217;t. This goes back to the <i>Declaration of Independence<\/i> (and further), where Jefferson (well, actually Thomas Paine did the first draft) wrote, &#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal&#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s &#8220;all men&#8221; and not &#8220;all men who just happen to be born in a particular place.&#8221; (I don&#8217;t have time to get into the sexism and racism of these documents&mdash;but I will!)<\/p>\n<p>You remember Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida who is planning an International Burn a Koran Day, right? Well, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703713504575475500753093116.html?mod=WSJ_World_LEFTSecondNews\">interview with the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, General Petraeus said that such a stunt would put American troops in danger. Conservative Christian <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101212063610\/http:\/\/blogcritics.org:80\/politics\/article\/general-petraeus-stop-meddling-in-us\">bloggers are going nuts<\/a> over this. They only like Petraeus when he just shuts up and kills people. The pastor is going to &#8220;pray on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama is coming out swinging. This is long (almost an hour), but man oh man, am I proud to call him my President. If you have the time, watch it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><object width=\"350\" height=\"211\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/klO3pM_7YHo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/klO3pM_7YHo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"211\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the entire Constitution of the United States today for a regular article that I&#8217;m about to write. 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