The Boston
Bombers have been caught, at least the two suspects we know about. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to
the FBI as a Suspect, was killed Thursday night, officials said. His younger
brother, 19 year old Dzhokhar
A. Tsarnaev, was caught in Watertown, Massachusetts last night around
9:00 p.m. while hiding in a boat in a residential backyard. The police
should be commended for tracking these two suspects and catching them.
Now it sounds like a success for the whole nation, and it is, until you get down to what happened when the suspect was caught. Let's back it up a bit though.
In April 2002, Anzor Tsarnaev apparently arrived in the United States on a tourist visa with his sons Tamerlan, 15, and Dzhokhar, 8. They had lived in Chechnya, a region of Russia in between the Caspians and Blacks seas. Over time, the family gained asylum, and Dzhokhar became a U. S. citizen.
Let's make it clear, only one of the suspects involved in these bombings is a U.S. citizen. Both Dzhokhar and Tamerlan applied for citizenship, but Tamerlan was denied citizenship but because he didn't have "good enough moral character" to become a U.S. citizen. But Dzhokhar did make the cut. Now I want to take a look at what this citizenship means. When a person takes the oath and becomes a citizen, he gets all the rights and freedoms that someone born in the U.S. gets...supposedly.
So what's the point of all this? When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, he wasn't read his Miranda Rights. He doesn't "have the right to remain silent" or "the right to an attorney". So if he's a U.S. citizen, and he has all the rights and privileges of being one, how come he doesn't get an important Right that he is entitled to?
Now some are defending his rights being suspended by saying he was insincere in his oath of citizenship, but if that's the case, why did we let him become a citizen in the first place? Should any legal immigrant that commits an act of terror or crime get his citizenship revoked and lose all his Rights? And on the other side of the coin, should Americans-born citizens in the U.S. lose their Rights if they are "un loyal" to their country? To me, the answer is a resounding NO. We can't just suspend Rights on a whim, we do that and we have little separating us from a country like Russia? What's next, shooting unarmed suspects on site and getting rid of Habeas corpus? The U. S. government may not like it, but they should treat every citizen the same and follow what the Constitution and Supreme court says.
Now it sounds like a success for the whole nation, and it is, until you get down to what happened when the suspect was caught. Let's back it up a bit though.
In April 2002, Anzor Tsarnaev apparently arrived in the United States on a tourist visa with his sons Tamerlan, 15, and Dzhokhar, 8. They had lived in Chechnya, a region of Russia in between the Caspians and Blacks seas. Over time, the family gained asylum, and Dzhokhar became a U. S. citizen.
Let's make it clear, only one of the suspects involved in these bombings is a U.S. citizen. Both Dzhokhar and Tamerlan applied for citizenship, but Tamerlan was denied citizenship but because he didn't have "good enough moral character" to become a U.S. citizen. But Dzhokhar did make the cut. Now I want to take a look at what this citizenship means. When a person takes the oath and becomes a citizen, he gets all the rights and freedoms that someone born in the U.S. gets...supposedly.
So what's the point of all this? When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, he wasn't read his Miranda Rights. He doesn't "have the right to remain silent" or "the right to an attorney". So if he's a U.S. citizen, and he has all the rights and privileges of being one, how come he doesn't get an important Right that he is entitled to?
Now some are defending his rights being suspended by saying he was insincere in his oath of citizenship, but if that's the case, why did we let him become a citizen in the first place? Should any legal immigrant that commits an act of terror or crime get his citizenship revoked and lose all his Rights? And on the other side of the coin, should Americans-born citizens in the U.S. lose their Rights if they are "un loyal" to their country? To me, the answer is a resounding NO. We can't just suspend Rights on a whim, we do that and we have little separating us from a country like Russia? What's next, shooting unarmed suspects on site and getting rid of Habeas corpus? The U. S. government may not like it, but they should treat every citizen the same and follow what the Constitution and Supreme court says.
Sorry about the background color, I've been having issues with it. Hopefully it will be resolved by next post.
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