Reply #29: Yeah, it always applies. An enemy combatant is some bullshit label to willfully evade the rule of

[TheKentuckian]

law that can be applied at will to any soul on the planet.

The government does not have extra-constitutional powers, such is in effect, an oxymoron.

You are talking childish, ignorant, and emotional nonsense. You want a boogie man status outside of the law and what our founders called inalienable and natural rights that the law nearly enumerated but did not bestow. Such reaches are not only contrary to the principles of limited government but make them impossible. The two cannot exist at the same time, in the same space.