34 thoughts on “United States citizens abroad have no constitutional protections”

1. So we have to follow US laws when outside the US, but the US government does not have to follow US laws with respect to us when we’re outside the US?

   Right, sign me up for that deal. Sounds fabulous.

2. If you can drag yourself to an Embassy and it is during a business day and not a weekend and there is someone on duty, maybe they will let you in and help unless you are well known in the opposite party party and then you might not be helped. Getting the full protection of the United States is a line of Horse Pucky, as Henry Fonda once said.
   These Socialist, Progressives, Marxist, Liberals or whatever they call themselves this week, just want to damage the U.S.A. and they have done a good job since 1913 when they passed the 16nth Amendment to the Constitution, using their stock in trade-LIES.
   We would get rid of all this garbage if we simply passed the FairTax. A national sales tax that voids all the Marxist Ideas we’ve used for 100 years.

3. @ Wilton Jere Tidwell
   You might find this interesting …
   http://taxpol.blogspot.ca/2014/06/graetz-tax-reform-road-not-taken-yet.html

4. @foo

   Yup, Uncle Sammy can Rendition, Torture and Drone Strike you while outside the Homeland to make you comply with his demands for CBT and FBARs.

   Its called Offshore Constitution Evasion (OCE for short).

5. OK, so a US court has officially confirmed that the USA is a rogue, oppressive nation which has no regard for its own constitution and arbitrarily persecutes its citizens.

6. This puts US citizens who visit US consulates outside the USA in an extremely precarious situation. As affirmed by the federal court, they have no US constitutional rights, and intervention by any host country to protect them is quite unlikely, even more so if they are not a citizen of that host country.

7. Least we forget, in addition to the black helicopters coming to rescue USCs abroad, an addition benefit of US citizenship while living abroad is, get this, US employment anti-discrimination law applies to units of US companies employing USCs outside the US:

   “the following U.S. statutes cover discrimination abroad against U.S. citizens applying for employment with American employers or for employment with American-controlled foreign employers; this coverage extends to recruitment, the application process, and hiring. Specifically (from the EEOC website):

   Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 – which protects U.S. citizens who are 40 years of age or older against employment discrimination based on age – (ADEA); And sec. 623(b) of ADEA states that it shall be unlawful for an employment agency to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of such individual’s age, or to classify or refer for employment any individual on the basis of such individual’s age. And sec. 630(c) of ADEA defines employment agency to mean: any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer and includes an agent of such a person.

   * the older Americans Act Amendments of 1984;

   * Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, and national origin; “Protected Class” concept developed based on the above categories race, color, national origin, etc

   * Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which bars employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of the disability.”

   http://www.fordyceletter.com/2010/06/14/american-employment-law-applies-in-foreign-countries/

8. Innocente, that a very interesting observation.

9. Burger King wants to expatriate by buying Tim Hortons:

   http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/08/24/burger_king_reportedly_in_talks_to_buy_tim_hortons.html