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To: Sully- who wrote (79536)	5/6/2010 3:24:42 PM
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Sens. Lieberman, Brown introduce bill to strip citizenship from terrorists By: Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent 05/06/10 1:32 PM EDT Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Scott Brown, R-Mass., will introduce a bill to strip Americans of their citizenship if they become involved with foreign terrorist groups. While the legislation would not apply to Faisal Shahzad, who is now under arrest for attempting to detonate a bomb in New York City’s Times Square, Lieberman said the bill was prompted by Shahzad and other Americans who have joined forces with groups that want to harm the United States. “It illustrates again the problem that has been recurring with American citizens becoming part of terrorist organizations,” Lieberman said, adding that the bill would make it easier to quesition terrorism suspects because they would no longer have the same rights as an American and would not be entitled to remain silent and hire a lawyer. An identical bipartisan House bill is forthcoming and will be introduced by Reps. Jason Altmire, a Democrat, and Charles Dent, a Republican, both of Pennsylvania. Brown said the bill was not partisan or political but rather a measure needed to keep American safe as groups like Al Qaeda work to recruit U.S. citizens to carry out terrorist acts on U.S. soil. Shahzad, for instance, said he trained in a Pakistan terror camp. “As they change the way we do business, we need to adjust the way that we respond,” Brown said. The two described the bill as merely an update of an existing law, passed in 1940, that targeted U.S. citizens fighting alongside an enemy of the United States. But it may be really difficult to pass their measure. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she had questions about the bill and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the constitution would make it “pretty difficult” to strip an American of their citizenship. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (79536)	5/6/2010 3:41:19 PM
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Roger Ebert Equates American Flag With Soviet Hammer & Sickle By John Nolte on twitter Big Hollywood My guess is that the only pause Ebert gave this Tweet was to worry about whether it was insulting to the Commies to equate the American flag with theirs. The Internet really has been the gift that keeps on giving with the Roger Eberts of our world. With no editors or producers, no one intelligent between them and their moral illiteracy, they just can’t help but expose their true nature to the whole world. God bless the SEND button. Gee, why is Hollywood’s approval rating in the toilet again? The incident the once universally respected Ebert is referring to involves students in America who dared to wear t-shirts emblazoned with American flags on Cinco de Mayo. For this offense the students were kicked off campus by school administrators. Whether the students were openly protesting or merely looking to quietly enjoy their God-given right to free expression, it appears as though Ebert agrees with the administrators: Some people’s speech is more free than other’s. You can sit on this bus, but only in the back. .

To: Sully- who wrote (79536)	5/6/2010 5:25:36 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Is Wearing a Mexican Flag on the 4th of July Illegal? By: Daniel Foster The Corner VDH, preposterous. Five California teens were kicked out of school for wearing American flag t-shirts and bandanas on Cinco de Mayo: <<< On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population. Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office. "They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today." The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus. >>> First of all, Cinco de Mayo is a second-rate holiday in Mexico. It celebrates a short-lived tactical victory in a war started over a debt default, and in the United States functions mainly as an (unneeded) excuse for college kids to drink. Mexico's Independence Day is September 15. Second of all, I have no idea if the boys' clothing was meant to be "incendiary" or not. But even if they were trying to be jerks -- what, precisely, is incendiary about the American flag to Mexican-Americans? The French flag, maybe. Third of all, at least one of the students was of Mexican descent: <<< Dominic Maciel said his father is of Mexican descent. “I have no problem with them wearing their Mexican stuff, their Mexican flags,” said Maciel. “I just thought I'd show my pride. American pride.” >>> Fourth of all, is not the real outrage here that an public employee asked a child to turn an American flag inside out? .