Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The state of Georgia or the state of California or the state of Arizona might just very well have as little "intimate" ties with the federal powers as the individual european ones do with the international courts. Not all states, particularly the southern states, have always been "happy troopers" when it comes to federal powers. I compare individual european states to US states. I realize the court you were talking about, but you already got an answer to that. The US doesn't want to join, because it knows it would have a few things to answer. If you asked a felon, the felon wouldn't like to see federal courts either. It's not a very big trick for a big powerful country to set itself above the law be it for moral or for less flattering reasons. But I wouldn't use such considerations as something to be proud of, as you seemed to be when you realized that european countries were actually willing to play by the book or answer to the consequences ... which is all the international court is about. We wouldn't want the GI's in Okinawa raping teenage girls to have to go to court now, would we? All the best, Daniel >From: Allan Wafkowski <allanwafkowski@mac.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves >Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:32:18 -0400 > >Daniel, I'm not sure how you have connected the American Supreme Court with >the World Court. > >Allan > > > >On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 04:48 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote: > >> >>>Americans are not breed to be so docile as to easily give over its >>>internal affairs to an entity called the World Court as Europeans have >>>urged us to do. >> >>So the supreme court is just a bunch of cronies smoking cigars? > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html