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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-11 08:15 AM
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1. Scalia may be correct as far as the application of the 14th Amendment
and that fact is what's more troubling. What Scalia means is it isn't just women who aren't protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution.

Guantanamo is still open for business with mostly Arabs being held indefinitely, without habeas corpus or remote chance of release.

Koramatsu -- Japanese-Americans and to some degree, German-Americans are held in military-style communities during World War II solely based on their ethnicity and country of origin during a war.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is pulling on the leash to "investigate" anyone whom he deems an "Islamic Terrorist" without any specific criteria. Recipe for mass persecution.
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