On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:37:22 -0400, Thomas Ranger wrote:

Why do you insist on defending an obvious scumbag?

You just don't get it. No one is defending Padilla. They are defending
the Constitution of the United States.. If Padilla is such an "obvious
scumbag", charge him, and let the courts do their business. You don't
"disappear" him, like some third rate country. To allow a government to
lock up it's citizens, *any* citizens, without a trial, is tyranny.