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Liz Cheney is UnAmerican

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Liz Cheney wants us to question the values of lawyers who would represent terrorist suspects at trial.  She wants us to question the Department of Justice that employs them and its credibility in the area of Justice if it is in the practice of hiring people who defend the guilty.

This is, aside from being idiotic, thoroughly unAmerican.

What does it mean to be American?  An American is not someone born here.  An American is not someone with a particular religion or one of a specific set of last names.  We are Americans because we subscribe to a particular form of government: A government of laws, not men; based on Freedom, Justice, and Equality; and deriving its just power from the consent of the governed.  This is not possible if anyone is presumed guilty until proven innocent or denied due process.  To assert that some are not entitled to due process is objectively to be unAmerican.