Dick Durbin

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Originally Posted by wendybeth

Btw- since when do only Americans deserve basic civil rights? That's so frikken elitest, I don't even know how to respond. We had the good sense to draft a constitution just in case a situation like this arose, so that means only we get the special treatment?

Not elitist in the least. Citizenship has always had benefits for the citizens of any given country. Only American citizens are privileged t ohave the rights gauranteed by our Constitution. This is the way it has always been.

Interestingly, though, when we dare to suggest that other countries grant similar liberties to their own citizens, we are accused of trying to impose our own form of democracy and society on these other cultures. Isn't that something else that is frequently regarded as elitist?

How dare us not grant our own civil liberties to those who would attack us for trying to bring democracy and similar civil liberties to their region of the planet!