Citizenship

I am somewhat confused by where Constitutional Rights start and stop. A person who is being held captive by any force of the United States must pass a legal test before the constitutional rights of imprisonment kick in. We seem to have no problem labeling those who don't pass the test as sub-human and therefore ineligible for basic human rights. At the same time, the same people who support "enthusiastic interrogation methods" and selective suspension of Habius Corpus also seem to wish to amend the Constitution in a very interesting way.
Today any person born in the United States is a citizen, period. Now there is the selective citizenship drive afoot. It has become very convoluted.
Is a person conceived in the United States a citizen?
The Right to Lifers say yes! Except if that conception is between foreign nationals who manage to slip across our borders, conceive a child and then, what? Go back to their own country, bear the child and then present it at the border as a citizen? Stay in this country and then request amnesty so the child can be born and live here?
The Right to Lifers contend that the unborn are citizens. OK, If they are then we will need to establish a conception test. We will also need to form bands of sex police along our borders in order to prevent what; "undocumented" conceptions? Does that possibility beg the creation of conception documentation?
Go ahead - scoff. Hey, you hotshot lawyers out there! Who wants to take the first test case?
Which brings me to what I see as a truly ironic situation.
Pro Choice people, people who feel that abortion should be available to anyone who wishes to terminate an unwanted pregnancy also seem to, as a class, believe in evolution. Pro Lifers, as a class, seem to believe in creation.
How unfortunate!
If only the Pro Lifers could somehow manage to wrap their intellects around the concepts of selective breeding or survival of the fittest or even just successful strategies for propagation.
They would see that if they just shut up and leave the Pro Choicers alone, the Pro Choicers will abort themselves into oblivion. Problem solved. Just like allowing gay marrage doesn't weaken the institution, it strengthens it.
For years we have been forcing gays into heterosexual unions where they continue to propagate more gay people. I mean, if some people were not born gay they would have been all eradicated by our Judao-Christian morality by now. If we let them marry each other they can't propagate, right? They die out.
That is, unless they really are products of our genetic make up and thus part of God's plan that we just haven't figured out - excuse me - had reveled to us yet.
Onward Christian Citizens! Marching as to war. If sinful lust is your enemy, then have your women wear burkas. There is no freedom if there is no choice.
If you live the way that God wants you to then God Bless You.
If you want me to live the way that you think God wants you live, then you live in fear of freedom. In which case, may God comfort you.

Greetings!

Welcome to my swamp. Some people have expressed the opinion that that is an accurate description of my mind.
I began 2007 by launching my own presidential campaign on youtube. I haven't yet been invited to any debates.
Here are some of my positions:

• Deduct the money that people send home to familes in foreign countries from foreign aid payments. This is Billions of dollars every year. How many billions? We can keep track through all those wire transfer store front services found in every city and town. We can also keep track by having the NSA monitor electronic communications of financial institutions.
• Start planning for global warming today. The time to have a plan for when the honeycombed (catacomed?) underground of New York City floods is now, not when the East river begins to flow down the steps to the subway.
• Government funded health care has an overhead cost of ONE PERCENT - 1%! Private insurance companies have overhead costs of between TWENTY FIVE AND FOURTY PERCENT - 25% and 40%! Just using that statistic, the private sector cannot be as cost effective or cost efficient as the public sector.
• Any medical student who is willing to trade three years of practice for every year of school the government pays for can come work as a doctor for the new Department of Health headed up by the cabinate level Surgeon General in charge of the United States Health Forces
• The Constitution is a legal document that establishes the right of the government to govern "we the people". The government, by agreeing to this covenant, agrees to Establish justice, Keep the peace, Defend the country against foreign enemies, Promote general welfare and Secure the liberty of the citizens and their offspring. Well, Bush has destroyed justice through executive privilege (privilege means "Private Law" - by the way) and signing statements. Bush has not kept the peace because our prisons are overflowing and the crime rates are going up. Bush is not defending this country against foreign enemies, he is creating foreign enemies. He is not promoting general welfare because while he is not tax and spend, he IS tax-CUT and spend. And none of the benefits come back to any but the top 1% of the population. Bush is not securing liberty. There is no liberty, no freedom without choices. There are no choices when everything is outlawed.
• If this country wants to sovle a big chunck of out energy problem, offer a $5.000,000 prize, tax free to each of the first five retrofitable 100 MPG automobile engines that are mass produceable
• It is time for a full accounting of the billions of dollars that the Bush administration has managed to lose in the past seven years
• All employes of private security firms now under US government contract must submit to regular drug screens to rule out the use of amphetamine or steroid type compounds.
• It should be against the law to vote on any law that is not understandable (ie. readable) Congresspeople and senators should be required to pass a written test demonstrating understanding prior to speaking on any bill either pro or con. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie.
  
• It should be against the law for any legislator to vote on a bill if that person has accepted money or other valued consideration from any corporation that will benefit from that legislation. Please note that the legislator is not barred from introducing, sponsoring or debating the bill, just voting on it. Thus conflict of interest is prevented but not freedom of speech.
• Build more trash to energy power plants. have them owned by state departments of energy and use the proceeds to finance neighborhood wind turbines.
• Legalize drugs, sell them in liquor stores and use the money to subsidize electricty producing residential solar roof coverings