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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by aplusbi on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:24PM (#6917566)
The constitution makes a distinction between "person" and "citizen" and is careful to grant rights to "people" and not just "citizens". This is why freedom of speech applies to illegal immigrants and visitors and not just US citizens.
Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by sliverstorm on Monday December 16, 2013 @03:34PM (#6917619)
This is why freedom of speech applies to illegal immigrants and visitors

Not if we read the text:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Extracting the relevant bit:

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech

Illegal immigrants and visitors "have" free speech because no laws may be enacted against it, period.

Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by aplusbi on Monday December 16, 2013 @04:59PM (#6918130)
You're missing the forest for the trees, but if it will make you happy, "congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble".

Illegal immigrants and visitors have the right to assembly because no laws may be enacted against people assembling, not just citizens assembling.

And perhaps more significantly, let's look at the 14th amendment (which I really should have started with in the first place):

>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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.

Here there is a clear distinction between citizen and person

Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by sliverstorm on Monday December 16, 2013 @06:01PM (#6918453)
Here there is a clear distinction between citizen and person

Yes, there is. There is also a clear distinction between which persons it applies to and which it doesn't;

> ... nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws