On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:

> The ICC and the world court have a track record that resembles
> the lowest common demoninator of the governments that sponsor
> it - They support tyrrany, terror, and slavery, and shattering
> confiscation of property.

Agreed.


> For all that is wrong with the US government, remember the
> condition  of people under the great majority of the world:
> poverty and fear, where the political privilege of a few
> shatters the economy and forces the vast majority into poverty,
> for example India, Burma, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, Cuba
> Indonesia, and all the rest.

You forgot to list the US.

> If we were subject to the power of those governments that
> compose the majority of the world's governments, we would be as
> poor, unfree, and frightened as the subjects of those
> governments.

And we are not?

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Yours,

J.A. Terranson
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        "An ill wind is stalking
        while evil stars whir
        and all the gold apples
        go bad to the core"

        S. Plath, Temper of Time

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