the nbaa. in addition to funding our wars, they strike at the heart of the most notorious safe haven for terrorists. it strikes at the u.s. constitution. in which our founders naively guaranteed the right of habeas corpus and trial by jury. but folks, by enschryneing our liberties, that is no way to preserve them. thankfully this bill doesn't. >> under the act the government may detain without trial suspected members of al qaeda or its allies. >> stephen: in other words, -- >> in other words, what we have already been doing for ten years but with the unexpected twist of it to you being legal. (laughter) >> stephen: we didn't see that coming. now of course, of course this up set the al-coddlers on both sides of the aisle. >> indefinite military detention without trial of american citizens is categorically unacceptable. >> you cannot have the president power to arrest american citizens in their own country without the rational of due process. >> it takes a wrecking ball to the united states const

recently the nbaa defect that is unconstitutional.rican people. hopefully, we can see ron paul mickey change for the nation and do what is best for the people. host: let's look at the tally. the numbers are basically unchanged for most of the evening since the race was called about 17 minutes past 8:00 eastern. next up is oklahoma city. republican. caller: hello. before i start, i would like to see a few things. i am a republican, you know. i like to question a lot of things republicans say. second, i am pretty young. i am 14. i have done a lot of things they do not understand. please feel free to interrupt. everyone is saying back mitt romney is electable. i know it is hard for a republican to bring foreign policies against obama because of a lot of things obama has done. mitt romney is going to have a tough time talking about obamacare, because romneycare. mainwould mitt romney's debate topic be against obama? host: thank you. he's 14 years old and watching the election is presumably for the first time. i will not answer that. this

it has rights under the constitution that we're fighting a battle in the nbaa, the bill whether we cann here without the right of a hearing. here you have a situation where you can take someone's life, not detain them, but take someone's life. if you believe all human life are people, a person, you have a moral imperative to stand up for -- for that belief. and in that respect, it's not a fact. you can say, well, a person is a defined term that you can probably define a lot of different ways. i would make the argument that the most welcoming and open way, one that i assume the founders understood and one that i would assume that we as a nation would embrace is we want an expansive definition of free people, we want to include everybody. but it's another point of view to say, no, we're not going to include all people. this is the problem i have with that. obviously, i believe all human life should be considered people. then if we say, well, here are the things that don't make this person make this human being a person. maybe they -- maybe they don't have brain wave or maybe they don't h