The United States ought to extend to non-citizens accused of terrorism due-process.

The US shouldn't give these rights to people who are commiting an act of war to take away life and pursuit of happiness from innocent people. I will offer the following definitions to support my case. Non-citizen: A person who is not a member of any of the US states nor owes alliance to the state he or she currently resides in. Constitutional Due process: Due process is the principle that a person has a right to receive notice, and be heard in an oderly trial proceeding in order to protect his or her rights that the United States have given to them as citizens. Accused: A person or select group of persons who are charged with or highly suspected of a criminal, capitol, or war crime. Terrorism: A deliberate act of War using fear and violence on a group of people, expecially for political purposes. Protection: The act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.\(sources: Black Law Dictionary, Webster's Dictionary) This debate will be decided on the rights of the American citizens, along with the definition of terrorism and accused. criteria: Social Contract, Vale: Rights Contentions: 1) 5th and 14th Amendment War Rules (only mention 14th if Aff brings it up) The Fifth Amendment says that in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger, the rules stated for the Grand Jury no longer apply. Terrorism is definitely a public danger. Within U.S. territory, non-citizens have rights because of the 14th Amendment, which declares "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. If these people are found outside of the States, they have no right to a trial."Sources: US Constitution 2) How We Could Have Prevented the Many Deaths of the 9/11 Attack On September 11th, 2001, AlQuida terrorists hijacked four US passenger planes. These planes then were crashed into the Twin Towers, killing 2,977 innocent people. Of those, 343 were firefighters and 60 police officers were also killed. Do you think those horrible people who killed American citizens, and the servicemen that day deserve the same rights as the people they brutally murdered? Of course not!! But here"s the thing: We could"ve prevented this. Aside from the many reports we had gotten about extreme religious groups and their hatred for their own country, and reports of Arabic men taking extensive flying lesson, but never bothering to properly learn how to take off and then land, we also received a fatwa from Osama bin Laden, a known terrorist. September 6, 2001, we received this declaration of war. Islamic Religious Law states that you have to give any group you are attacking notice of war three days in advance, no sneaking up. America did nothing. We just passed it off because of laws stating we couldn"t just hold and interrogate before this tragedy had happened. We could"ve stopped all of this so quickly had we been able to at that time just hold these non-citizens that had been accused of terrorism until we were able to get to the bottom of the plan. The hijackers were just accused non-citizens at one time. We did nothing, and so they killed thousands. If we offer due process, we"ve just made it a free for all on the entire country. Sources: New York Times, The Governments Fallback in 9/11, Harriet Strieber 3) America"s Future if We Were to Take this Path If we offer protection to these people, sooner or later we"ll be back under that rule. If we show these heartless killers mercy like what you"re suggesting, USA will no longer be the strongest country on Earth. We will be the weak link, easy to control or destroy in the eyes of the many enemies this great country has. We can"t let these people out where they can potentially cause more harm. Now, before (insert name here) objects to this by saying holding them is Unconstitutional and Un-American, let me remind you of Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, otherwise known as the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. During the War on Terror, this detention camp was used to house captured combatants. Dick Cheny, the then Vice President, has stated "Prisoners of War could be detained until the end of the natural conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. This camp becomes Camp Delta later on. The prisoners, known as detainees, were placed there seeing as they were accused of terrorism. America has held accused terrorists before. The US Supreme Court has deemed in constitutional under times of War. It was done for the US"s safety, a precaution to keep our freedom. In (insert name here)"s case, they would rather have us just hope that these people will be grateful we"ve let them go where they please, and not attack us because of this. Sources: Global Security Military Site and Islamic Truth And these are the the reasons I stand in firm negation of the resolution.