Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!h-sc1!shiue From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Meir Kahane Message-ID: <641@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 14:34:25 EST Article-I.D.: h-sc1.641 Posted: Sat Oct 26 14:34:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:24:00 EST References: <971@decwrl.UUCP> <1760@akgua.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 27 > > Didn't the U.S. government take away or is it in the process > taking away Mr. Kahane's citizenship because he has been elected > to the parliament in Israel ?? If it has already been done does > that affect his right to free speech (public address) in this country. > Does the government have the authority to restrict the free speech > of aliens of which Mr Kahane may now be ?? If they took away his > citizenship I hope he fights the move in the court system. I think > however I need to recheck the Constitution on this point. I seem to > remember that no citizen can accept a "title" like duke or prince > from a foreign country but I can't specifically remember if it excludes > all political involvement. > > Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb} I believe (just an impression - I'm not too informed about this whole situation) that what the U.S. gov't. is trying to do is constitutional, but that Mr. Kahane's attorney Alan Dershowitz is defending him on the grounds that similar action wasn't taken against other Israelis who held positions in the Knesset and higher, such as Golda Meir. -Steve Shiue King to grovelling peasant: "Try to see things from my point of view."