There was no point - it was a joke.

Yea, but like I said I left WW1 off the list on purpose.

I stated:

Any jump you made was your own, not one that I supported or made. Nice try. You fail.

Wherever in the world it operates with US Citizens and it applies to those legal citizens only. So a US citizen captured in the Sudan while in the service of USAID for smuggling hash is subjected to our Constitution?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factitious

1: produced by humans rather than by natural forces
2 a: formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional standard b: produced by special effort : SHAM <created a factitious demand by spreading rumors of shortage>


So what is the joke?

Because it doesn’t support your claim that American POWs are always mistreated.

humourless much?

What have your values and your family to do with legal due process rights for non-citizens? By denying these rights to non-citizens you make torture a legal option.

You know damn well that classic meant "facetious."

You are going out of your way to be obtuse.

Where in the Constitution does it expressly say that legal due process rights are given only to U.S. citizens and not to anyone else who is subject to U.S. law?

What proof do you have that only citizens are included in We the People and that the expression “no person” in the 5th Amendment means “no citizen”? None. You have no such proof because no such proof exists. You have been shown time and time again that legal due process rights are and have been extended to non-citizens that are subject to U.S. law. You are either too dense to see or too obstinate to admit that you are flat wrong. You are not here to discuss, but rather to argue. You are little more than a bully.

Are you honestly trying to tell me you did not get the gist of my post?

The person isn't subject to the Constitution, the government is. Wherever, and with respect to whoever, it operates. If the US citizen is captured in the Sudan by the Sudanese government, they are subject to the Sudanese government. If they are captured by the US government (putting aside the idea of the US government capturing people in Sudan), they are subject to the US government, which is itself subject to the US Constitution, no matter where it is acting.

LOFL - my spellcheck changed it - Holy crap thats really funny.

thanks Glatt!

No I am not. The so-called joke simply bombed. I did not know the meaning of factitious, and before I looked it up I thought maybe it had something to do with political factions.

BTW: The spellchecker for MS Word does not change factitious to something else.

But in the Firefox web browser, the user is prompted to change "facitious" to "factitious."