Re: [Politics] Re: The United Nations: Unfit to govern

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 19:00:18 MDT

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    --- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
    > In a message dated 5/4/2003 2:48:49 AM Central Standard Time,
    > paatschb@optusnet.com.au writes: Ultimately if there is to be
    > international law that means anything someone has to be able to
    > convince ordinary voting Americans that that is something *they*
    > should care about.
    >
    > Brett,
    > You have gotten to the crux of the your misunderstanding. The
    > ordinary American in overwhelming numbers does care about
    > international law. They have long been devoted to the love of
    > international law.

    We have long thought that the UN operated much like our own government.
    We have learned now that that is not the case. We have learned that it
    is like Texas vetoing New Hampshire defending itself against Quebeois
    terrorists because Texas was making good money selling Quebec TNT under
    the table. That ain't America.

    Nor would we, at this time, accept a world government that was
    structured more like our own, specifically because it is structured in
    a winner-takes-all way, with the only protections being the courts, the
    supermajority protection of constitutional rights, and the ability of
    minority legislators to filibuster. We wouldn't trust it specifically
    because the majority of the people in the world do not live in free
    nations under trustable governments. It is bad enough that our own
    liberties here are eroded by the power of immigrant laden big cities.

    > But that same American does not see his country receiving
    > international law. I think we see French and German conduct as
    > avaricious not as lawful -- there are others involved but those are
    > the leaders.
    > When you state lofty European positions attempting to "reason"
    > with us we do not hear you as reasonable. We hear only a person that
    > is doing one thing strictly for his advantage and trying to talk us
    > into harming ourselves for his advantage.
    > As I said before, "Phony baloney."

    Yes, and it is starting to all come out, the financial shenanigans, the
    bribery of UN officials, the laundering of smuggled oil money. The
    files of the Iraqi intelligence service is indicting our opponents for
    us. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that France was
    hiding Iraqi chemical weapons for them. I would bet that the primary
    reason the opposing countries were opposed was because they didn't want
    the truth of their illegal dealings to be exposed once we won.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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