Setting aside for a second how disgracefully stupid this Bill is on the part of Scott Brown and Joe Liberman, the article talks about their Bill that would strip terrorists of their citizenship, and ends with this gem of a paragraph:
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder rejected the notion that reading Miranda rights to Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad, the naturalized U.S. citizen whose alleged action led the filing of the measure, hindered investigators. He told Congress that Shahzad’s cooperation is ongoing and that he has provided useful information.
No segue, no natural progression, the article just jumps to that paragraph. Now, what could possibly be the connection between a Bill that strips people of citizenship and whether the Times Square Bomber was read his Miranda rights? Uh oh, if you said "Because non-citizens don't get Miranda rights or something?" then you are hopelessly, and shamefully wrong. You're a jackass! You're a lot like the rest of America in that sense, so don't feel bad or whatever.
But maybe your defense - depending on how unsure you sounded in that ridiculous answer - is that you just relied on news people to know their shit. And, so, the reason that last paragraph appears in that article is BECUASE non-citizens don't get Miranda rights or something? I mean why the fuck else would the newspaper include that connection? Why else would a person bestowed with the privilege to write for a newspaper include that fact unless he thought it was related!!?? Ok, I hear ya. I guess it's not your fault.
And, maybe that's my point. Let's see as this proposed Bill gets debated how often people stop and point out this critical and glaring and never-to-be-disputed-by-even-the-most-modestly-informed-individuals FACT:
A person's Miranda rights are independent of, and not conditioned upon, their status as an American Citizen.
I await the media's treatment of this issue with anticipated red-hot fury.
