Mitt Romney at the RNC
Mitt Romney shows exactly why he couldn’t win the Presidential nomination in his speech today. He doesn’t even know the Constitution (or the realities of his own Government)! He claimed that the ruling that allowed Guantanamo prisoners to question their imprisonment as both “liberal” and “granting them rights”.
A) A Conservative court made that ruling.
B) The Constitution states:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
It doesn’t say citizen, it says person. All people get the right to due process under the law. This is not something belonging to only citizens. The ignorance of Romney (and all those who cheered in the croud at his statement to that effect) shines through with their lack of knowledge of our Constitution. These people are supposed to be their party leaders and they don’t even know the Constitution? How pathetic!