A bill has been introduced in the United States Senate which will
authorize the federal government to revoke the citizenship, creating
practical expatriates, of American citizens.
Introduced by Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman and Massachusetts
Republican Scott Brown, S 1698, the “Enemy Expatriation Act,” is a
simple, 2 page document which offers apparently innocent amendments and
additions to existing federal legislation. (1)
That legislation, known as Title 8, “…outlines the role of aliens and
nationality in the U.S. Code.” And it is just one small piece of this
massive and complex law which the Enemy Expatriation Act seeks to
modify, that being Section 349, the means by which “a person who is a
national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall
lose his nationality…,” that is, his citizenship.
(2)
Though there is currently little contained in Section 349 which would
alarm any American citizen, one phrase added to the legislation by the
“Enemy Expatriation Act” would change everything. For it states that
anyone voluntarily
“engaging in, or purposefully and materially supporting, hostilities against the United States” will lose his “nationality.” And nationality means citizenship!
(1)