No Citizenship for Law Breakers--Or War Criminals?

There was a report on the BBC yesterday which featured the following thought about recently proposed repressive legislation aimed at non-citizen workers:

We shouldn't give citizenship to people who break the law.

That seems like a nice thought. But, what I really like is the converse of it: that some serious law-breakers should lose their citizenship--people like Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney, and all of the others who profit from the illegal war in Iraq.

(I hope to add a reference on this in a future blog.)

The next morning on a BBC Business Program, I heard an even more insightful (and deliberately glib) remark about people who "sneak" into the US to do low paid work....

Although the next segment of the report offered a different description, the initial sting of this deeply unsympathetic description hardly left my ears. Some people are living lives of desperation without the customary guarantees of citizenship, and citizens are profiting thereby.

At any rate, the prominence of business programs on the BBC itself deserves comment for the deep insights it gives us into reality..... but I shall have to wait until I have a better example.