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Originally posted by Spanky
Of course they are inalieable. But that doesn't mean it is the US government jobs to enforce such rights for all human being. The Declaration of Independence gave people the right to rise up against governments that abuse rights. It did not place an obligation on US citizens to extend these rights everywhere.
As far as the obligations of the US government they are alienable. That is why the US government doesn't have to go around enforcing such rights all over the world every time another govenrment abuses them.
Jefferson did send the marines to Tripoli. Do you think that all the "world citizens" that our armed forces faced off against when we invaded Tripoli were given the full protections of the US constitution as if they were US citizens, or that Jefferson expected our armed forces to extend them such protections?
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We're not talking about any obligation on the part of the US government when, e.g., Libya jails Libyans. We're talking about what happens when the US government jails, e.g., Libyans. You are suggesting that the US government can jail (e.g.) Libyans indefinitely, without giving them the chance to challenge this in court, just so long as it happens outside the 50 United States. (Or maybe you think that foreigners in the United States should be jailed in this way, too.)
