Pretty scary stuff. The one thing that strikes me though:
"If passengers are deemed to be inadmissible, they have no
constitutional rights even if later taken to an American prison. Mason
says that's because they are deemed to be still outside the U.S., from a
legal point of view."
Foreign citizens don't have Constitutional rights.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ot_flyrights_20050811
This is scary.
"Mason (a senior lawyer for the US government) said the interpretation
means travellers can be detained without charge, denied the right to
consult a lawyer, and even refused necessities such as food and sleep."
Is this for real? Sounds sort of insane to me.
I guess it's now "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free...unless they're just passing through...then
tell 'em to watch out!" <grin>
T
