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...culture, says his former robotics coach Steven Scott. After graduating in 1999, al-Halabi enlisted in the Air Force; his defense lawyers say he was a "star performer," promoted to senior airman and recognized in 2001 as 60th Supply Squadron Outstanding Airman of the Year. He became a U.S. citizen and worked as a supply clerk before being sent to translate at Guantanamo, where he spent eight months, from late November 2002 until his arrest in July...
...Charged. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, 31, civilian interpreter at the Guant?namo Bay prison camp; with lying to federal investigators about alleged possession of classified documents; in Boston. Mehalba, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, is the third Guant?namo worker arrested for possible security breaches...
This is a fundamental contradiction. How can I, as an American citizen, have individual rights and the ability to make with my life what I want if I am forced to give the profits of my toil disproportionately to those who have not toiled themselves? No one has an entitlement to private possessions they have not earned...
...moral values must remain detached from one’s political views. While I sympathize with all of those who do not feel that they have reached their ultimate goal of happiness, it would be wrong to let my personal emotions determine my responsibilities as an American citizen. I have always been taught to feel lucky for what I have—and always to give back to those with less than I. For this reason, I always have and always will be supportive of private charities and public service. But this is my personal responsibility, not the government?...
...equality of opportunity does not mean that each and every citizen will start at the same socioeconomic position in life. Just because all Americans are entitled to identical resources does not mean that all should be given those resources. For American happiness cannot be weighed on a collective, utilitarian scale: the government has no right to decide at what level of comfort each individual ought to live. Instead, it grants us the individual rights demanded by “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and we are each free to follow our individual beliefs...