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Citizen Protection Protocol / Law

Why Is This Idea Important?: From Japanese, German, and Italian citizens during WWII up through incidents and ongoing examples of unjust and illegal treatment of Asian and Middle Eastern descended Americans in the present, we find ourselves repeatedly abusing the rights of citizens, residents and visitors whenever aggressed upon by their countries/cultures of origin. We are a nation of people from other nations and we will continue to face this dilemma. Rather than continue to repeat our reactive abuses so predictably, we should have in place a well thought-out set of laws and protocols aimed at the intentional protection of citizens', residents', and visitors' rights, under such circumstances. Having recognized our errors, repeatedly, it is time to be intentional and preventative, if we are to be taken seriously about not engaging in willful human rights abuse.

Require the federal government to create a set of protocols and laws (with penalties) for the protection of US citizens, residents, and visitors whose national and/or cultural origins match those of current or future aggressors upon the US, to be activated in response to foreign aggression.

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Submitted by vcochran 2 years ago

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  1. bobschacht said:

    It is important to restore Habeas Corpus rights to everyone, and absolutely forbid the government from making exceptions that infringe on this right. This is already the case, in theory-- but the Bush administration ignored these rights without paying any consequences.

    What Congress can do is mandate substantial penalties for failure to provide Habeas Corpus, like removal from office and banning the culpable individuals from government service forever.

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