oh..its almost funny..if it wasn't so dang sad..you have no rights in US airspace

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Flyers passing through U.S. have few rights, Arar judge told

Last Updated Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:24:59 EDT

CBC News

A senior lawyer for the U.S. government has told a judge hearing a

lawsuit over Maher Arar's deportation that foreign citizens passing

through American airports have almost no rights.

 

 

INDEPTH: Maher Arar

 

Mary Mason told a hearing in Brooklyn, N.Y., that the government is

interpreting its powers in such a way that passengers never

intending to enter the U.S. connecting to international flights at

U.S. airports must prove they are no threat and could be allowed to

enter the country.

 

If passengers are deemed to be inadmissible, they have no

constitutional rights even if later taken to an American prison.

Mason says that's because they are deemed to be still outside the

U.S., from a legal point of view.

 

" Someone who's inadmissible is in the same category as the people

that the CIA snatches and grabs from other countries, " said Barbara

Olshansky, a lawyer for the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional

Rights, which is suing a number of U.S. officials on Arar's behalf.

 

" You are fair game for however executive branch wants to treat you. "

 

 

 

 

a blinding flash

hotter than the sun

dead bodies lie across the path

the radiation colors the air

finishing one by one