Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.
Some people are more terrorist than others.
Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.
I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.