From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 11:35:24 MST
John Clark said:
> "Hubert Mania" <humania@t-online.de>
>
> >The USA will be acting against international law and YOU KNOW IT.
>
> But that's exactly the problem, many of us don't know it. You claim to
have
> that knowledge so tell us, exactly what "international law" did the USA
> violate, what are the penalties for transgressors, how are they enforced,
> where are they written down, where can I see the signature of the USA
> agreeing to these regulations,
The international law (German: Voelkerrecht = people's law) Bush is now
acting against is written down in the charta of the United Nations. And I do
remember that the USA signed at least *this* treaty. And therein it is
stated that a preemptive war is against international law if it is not
approved by the security council of the UN. The conditions for the council
to approve of a preemptive war are very restricted, and so far no sane envoy
is willing to see such conditions to agree with the US viewpoint that they
are so deadly threatened by Saddam that they would have to stop him before
he pushes the button.
Now, the UN has not approved of a preemptive war, so Bush is acting against
international law. He doesn`t give a shit about the rest of the world. Maybe
you should really start turning to European news sources from now on. At
least here in Germany we can read the statements of all dominant governments
in the world who condemn Bushs announcement of his solo effort last night
and his violation of international law. Even the German Christian
conservative party, for almost 60 years now on excellent terms with every
US administration, is somehow shocked about the way Bush disregards the
UN security council.
Nobody will officially punish the US for this transgressing. So you don't
need to worry :-) but your country has lost friends by the dozens.
> and most important of all is there any reason
> US citizens should bet their lives that this mysterious fuzzy thing called
> "international law" will protect them from another 911 type attack?
Sorry
> for all the questions, I've asked them before but nobody had an answer. Do
> you?
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
John, there IS no protection. You must protect yourself. You have to choose
between a deadly cold "security" in a police state where everybody spies on
everybody else or you accept that you can die any moment. How in the world
can anybody ever prevent a team of determined mindfuckers to blow another
skyscraper in Washington, Paris or Berlin? And if I happen to be in this
Berlin building at the wrong time, I am fucking unlucky. That's all.
You have to live with the rest risk. You have to loose your fear and your
desire for revenge somehow. Nobody can protect you against terrorism.One
preemptive war after the other will suck your economy dry and the further
downfall of the USA is ensured.
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