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World Vital Events Per Time Unit: 2005

Time unit        Births             Deaths        Increase
Year           130,013,274   56,130,242   73,883,032
Month          10,834,440     4,677,520      6,156,919
Day                    356,201        153,781          202,419
Hour                    14,842             6,408              8,434
Minute                      247                107                 141

. . . there is no country in the world in which people are satisfied with having barely enough to eat. —KINGSLEY DAVIS 1991

Should Constitutional Rights Extend to Non-Citizens?



By: Gideon MacLeish
Posted: 6/21/2005 2:20:24 PM on gideon's trumpet

The short answer is no. But the real world answer, I believe, is more complicated.

We have no legal responsibility to extend Constitutional rights, or even the Geneva Convention to the detainees at Gitmo. It is by no means cruel or unusual to deny them the rights of a system they detest as much as ours.

But that's not the point.

The point is, we are waging a war that's as much about perception as anything. Like it or not, long term success (translated: success AFTER our troops have returned home) depends greatly on the respect that the Iraqis and others in the Middle East have of our judicial system and our stance on human rights. While I personally believe the media has overstated the situation at Gitmo, I do think that we have "pushed the envelope". The fact that they're being held anonymously, and without being charged, says as much.

I believe in the superiority of the US Constitution, when its rights and duties are respected. It is a document that provides for greater potential liberty than virtually any other constitution in history, and certainly greater liberties than any constitution in existence.

And so, we would do well to prove it. Give the Gitmo detainees due process, give them a fair trial. Give them the rights that they would have if they were American citizens. After all, that is what they are (ironically) demanding. Let's show the rest of the world that our system is INDEED superior and that the evil deeds of the terrorists were exactly that.

But that's a point we can't prove if we keep them locked up in anonymity.

But that's just my two cents.

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Top Causes of Death in US
Number of Deaths Per Year
  1. Abortion: 1,500,000 - NPR, March 18, 2002
  2. Heart Disease: 696,947 - CDC, 2002
  3. Cancer (Malignant neoplasms): 557,271 - CDC, 2002
  4. Smoking: 400,000 - USA Today, March 13, 2002
  5. Sudden Cardiac Arrest: 250,000 - NBC News, March 19, 2002
  6. Stroke (Cerebrovascular diseases): 162,672 - CDC, 2002
  7. Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases: 124,816 - CDC, 2002
  8. Accidents (unintentional injuries): 106,742 - CDC, 2002
    Motor Vehicle Accidents 44.8 per 100,000 - CDC, 1994
    All Other Accidents 16.9 per 100,000 - CDC, 1994
  9. Infections caught in Hospitals: 90,000 - NPR, March 27, 2002
  10. Medical Malpractice: 80,000 - Ralph Nader, October 21, 1996
  11. Diabetes mellitus: 73,249 - CDC, 2002
  12. Influenza/Pneumonia: 65,681 - CDC, 2002
  13. Alzheimers's Disease: 58,866 - CDC, 2002
  14. AIDS: 41,930 - CDC, 1994
  15. Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome, and Nephrosis: 40,974 - CDC, 2002
  16. Septicemia: 33,864 - CDC, 2002
  17. Suicide (Intentional self-harm): 31,655 - CDC, 2002
  18. Chronic Liver Disease And Cirrhosis: 27,257 - CDC, 2002
  19. Essential (primary) hypertension and hypertensive renal disease: 20,261 - CDC, 2002
  20. Assault (Homicide): 17,638 - CDC, 2002
  21. Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids: 17,593 - CDC, 2002
  22. Food Posioning: 9,000 - NBC News, Jan 1997
  23. War: 3,000+, - Network News, 2001:
    New York City - 2,900+, 2001
    Afganistan - 24+, 2002
    Bosnia
    Kosovo
    Columbia
    Iraq: 1,500 - ABC News, Mar 18, 2005
    Pakastan
  24. Road Rage: 1,000 (Angry motorists killing each other) - NBC News, Feb 1997

  25. TOTAL: 2,443,387 - CDC, 2002

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