Who said it?

[theweaselking]

About Guantanamo Bay: "Foreigners, in foreign countries, have no rights under the American Constitution."

On the Geneva Conventions and other human rights treaties: "What do they mean? They mean almost anything."

On Guantanamo prisoners arguing that the Geneva conventions apply, and that they should be given trials and appeals and given a chance to argue that they are unjustly imprisoned: "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son. And I am not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy."

Who said it?

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Comments

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

"Foreigners, in foreign countries, have no rights under the American Constitution."

Ha-hah! He says that like he believes that Americans living in America have rights under the American Constitutions. Hi-larious.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Especially as he's so carefully sidestepping two critical points: that the prisoners are, in some cases, Americans, and that the prisoners are being held by THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT in a "foreign country" that is and has been de facto American soil by right of conquest for most of this century, on a US military base.

Try imprisoning, torturing, and murdering Germans at Rammstein AFB and see how far that argument gets you, you semiliterate prejudiced fundamentalist bigot.