tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602662757284657458.post5557845309803618774..comments2013-10-29T00:14:10.042-07:00Comments on Zeus' Chariot: OH NO! What if they are right?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17063758837029022710noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7602662757284657458.post-34582944489220721512009-10-13T11:00:03.643-07:002009-10-13T11:00:03.643-07:00Okay, "You lie" was not an appropriate t...Okay, "You lie" was not an appropriate thing to say, but civility and decorum notwithstanding, Joe Wilson would have been correct to say, "Mr. President, you're either willfully ignorant or stupid." There is Equal Protection under the law found in the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution for "all persons" in the USA whether here illegally or not. In landmark decisions, Supreme Court rulings have held that: (a) the Constitution protects "persons;" and (b) persons are citizens as well as strangers, people born here and people who end up here, people here lawfully and people here unlawfully; and (c) in the area of social services, whatever benefits the government makes available to the general public cannot be kept away from a class of persons based on their immigration status or that of their parents. To suggest that the Harvard Law School-educated University of Chicago-employed professor of constitutional law did NOT know the law when he contended that Congress can keep universal health care away from illegals is ridiculous. He must have known that, short of amending the Constitution to re-define "persons" and "Equal Protection," whatever the Congress makes available by way of social services to the general population, it must make available to "all persons".Brian Terrellnoreply@blogger.com