is jose padilla a citizen? re: Since it's happening to other American citizens
Your answers/questions are complely correct if this was a classroom, or if applied to anything except baldest terrorism. The reason there cant be public trials immediatly, so I am told is that this would make Al queda know who was caught, and cause evidentiary problems like in the Moussoui case.
Many others who have been picked up and detained have in fact been released . Some are in the wrong place at the wrong time liek the saudi student without proper J1 via staying in the Mellenium Hilton that got destoyed at the WTC who took flying lessons and had an active GPS transmitter open in his room, even he got released. Its a damn hard question. I would prefer a spiritual awakening among the crazed Osamaphiles and call for peace among moslems, not continued war like Mathathir wants. The FBi monitors mosques: sound evil? how about the calendar used in many Moslem day schools which had planes flying into the WTC in SEpt 2001? Or the weapons stored at mosques or the recordings of Al Arian at mosques in which he asks for 500 dollars to kill a jew? If you use a religious edifice for terrorism you cross the line
"What does that have to do with my civil rights being violated?
Fema and other control mandates absolutly violate "rights" please see list that was posted.
I am surprised by this:
but not for AIDS or just because you are at a SARS epicenter, unless it's likely you've been specifically exposed.
people in canada and singapore were for sure told to get quarentined. the concept of "specifically exposed" is not scientifically correct.
there is no way of determining specific exposure. epidmiology just uses anybody in contact with, which means anybody sort of in the area. ie you are in building with heating ducts that contain sars, you are exposed until proven otherwise by quarentine
As for Aids, probably an extra 50000 people have HIV at the very minimum (not counting further spread) because of the constitutional rights baloney. At the time of the controversy in the mid eighties in SF, the average man had 200 to 500 contacts a year. given a gay population of 400000, and a 6 month delay that is about 250 times 400K or 10 million contacts. this is enough to infect the entire population assuming only a small percent were actually at the baths at any one time. AT one point more than 50% of homosexuals in SF were Hiv pos.
Do you have a constitutional right to spread a disease which kills? I think these people with aids were murdered by the protectors of constitutional rights to sex in mens baths. Similarly if a man has unprotected sex with a women or a women has unprotected sex with a man and either is hiding the fact that they have HIV, it is murder if the other party is infected. No constitutional rights.