FDR wrote:


"David" wrote in message
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/nyregion/10civil.html
"Would not such treatment of a detainee - in any context, criminal,
civil, immigration or otherwise - violate both the Constitution and
clearly established case law?" Judge Trager asked.

The reply by Mary Mason, a senior trial lawyer for the government, was
that it would not. Legally, she said, anyone who presents a foreign
passport at an American airport, even to make a connecting flight to
another country, is seeking admission to the United States. If the
government decides that the passenger is an "inadmissible alien," he
remains legally outside the United States - and outside the reach of
the Constitution - even if he is being held in a Brooklyn jail.

If a flight that goes over American airspace has an inadmissable alien, can
they arrest him while in American airspace too? After all, that is our
territory.

That's where they're heading. Our selected president has decreed that
all planes flying over American airspace have to submit a passenger list
to the feds to be checked against no fly lists. It doesn't matter
whether the plane's destination or departure point was in America. If
it's flying from Vancouver to Quebec, and passes over American airspace,
it has to be preapproved by the feds. If it's flying from Mexico to
Europe, and passes over Florida, ditto. This goes against every law of
aviation there is. Osama must be loving how America is tearing itself
apart to guard against terrorism. That was his goal, indeed that's the
goal of every terrorist. Not bad for the price of 19 box cutters.


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