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It's only okay when MY favorite country does it. (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] bouh 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Ah yes, the famous "you're free as long as you obey me". Totally not imperialism.

[–] QuaternionsRock 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What freedoms granted by the Constitution have ever applied to foreign legal entities? And since when did sucking off 200 billion dollar corporations become part of the leftist playbook?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2017/01/30/does-the-constitution-protect-non-citizens-judges-say-yes/?sh=c8b4d9f4f1de

The same way it applied to enemy combatants held at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay in a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision, *Boumediene v. Bush, *which held that the basic right of habeas corpus to challenge illegal detentions extends even to non-citizens on foreign territory.

Unless otherwise specified, the rights granted in the US constitution apply to all people of the world regardless of where they are.

If corporations are people as defined by citizens united, then these protections apply to foreign companies also.

[–] QuaternionsRock 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So we support Citizens United now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

One can only speak for themselves. Is extremely weird to say “we support X now?”. I’m not a we, and neither are you.
Nowhere did I say I supported it, the question was since when do foreign companies get rights, and my answer was merely showing a way in which they would under our current precedents.

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