Newt Gingrich
The Party of Fear Mongers, i.e. Republicans, are up to their old tricks; they are bombarding the air waves in an attempt to paint President Obama as being "soft" on terrorism by using the case of the Christmas Day bomber. Susan Collins, Sarah Palin, and now Newt Gingrich, "the Master of Incivility," are insisting that the Obama Administration was at fault by granting the suspect his Constitutional rights.
When Mr. Gingrich was informed that the Bush Administration had done the very same thing with the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, he claimed that was because Reid was an American. The fact is Mr. Reid was a British citizen, not American. Did Newt think he was American because his name was Richard instead of Umar Farouk and he was not balck? Anyway he was wrong!
But more importantly, Newt and his Republican friends either are unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution, or even more sinister, are trying to deceive the public as to the contents of the Constitution,
Those who know the Constitution know that the basic Constitutional Rights apply, not only to Americans, but anyone else arrested in the United States. Even the Bush Administration which was not an advocate of defendants' rights, was well aware of this basic principle. For a complete explanation, confer: Greenwald - Salon.com, "Susan Collins spreads central myth about Constitution."
The question becomes: Do Newt, his Republican colleagues, and their media lackeys think the American people are uneducated and do not know the Constitution? Or is it, these guys don' t know the Constitution?
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