Douche-bag of the week

Lot of offerings this week. But to paraphrase Shakespeare, "Brevity is the soul of wit". Seeing as I lack most things in that phrase, I thought I would give it a try.

It is no secret that I have, what can only be described as an anti man-crush, on Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT).

But this is the height of cowardice. Essentially what Sen. Lieberman wishes to do is strip the citizenship away of anyone the State decides is an actor for a terrorist organization before they have been convicted of that offense.

The founders and drafters of the 14th Amendment wanted it to be extremely difficult to rescind or remove citizenship. To keep it from being easy to circumvent the constitutional protections provided, unarguably, to a citizen.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. [emphasis added mine]

The part I highlighted is what this is about. The essential thrust of Sen. Lieberman's bill is to make it easier to deprive, even a U.S citizen, of due process or equal protection under the law.

Advocating for that, in my book makes you a douche bag. So congratulations Senator Lieberman, you have sunk even further.

-Cheers