Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-07-02 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030701.1734, Jan Coffey wrote: You don't think power corupts, and so you are not concerned as much about the system. That's not what I said. I know that power corrupts, but over here we consider people in power

Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-30 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Stardate 20030629.0253, Steve Sloan wrote: I think it's rather odd that you have such mistrust of your government. After all, the people in your government are there because you *elected* them

Re:Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-30 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Martin Malmkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if I got Ibrahim's message right, but I think that there is no real idea in continuing this discussion. The original purpose was to highlight some probable causes why there is so much anti-americanism out there, and I think those

Re:Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-28 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030627.1753, Jan Coffey wrote: Does the American public actually have any idea about how we perceive your extreme distrust of government and anything that reeks of government involvement? No please explain. I

Re:Justice in the US vs Europe

2003-06-27 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Martin Malmkvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Jan Just a humble note to your dialogue about justice in our most esteemed nations. By the way: Congratulations on creating the most successful headline on this list yet :) I changed mine for the sake of variation. The law-stuff: 1.

Re:ICC was Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-27 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030626.2044, Jan Coffey wrote: Exactly! What you propose for the ICC is representative governance, but you don't use that same system for your own country. What do you mean? We DO use representative governance!!! You

Re:ICC was Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030626.0002, Jan Coffey wrote: IIRC, that's not going to happen: the EU recently decided NOT to federalise. Yes and the lack of the other two branches is troubeling. The EU doesn't have these three branches yet

Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030626.0014, Jan Coffey wrote: That has nothing to do with the concept of trial by jury. The jury system doesn't have any more safeguards against an innocent man being convicted than our system has. Your system has

Re:Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030626.0018, Jan Coffey wrote: I trust an average person taken from the street far more than I would trust someone who does it for a living. So, when you feel ill, you ask a not-medically-trained average person from

Re:Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See other post about law complexity. Where more technical points of law are involved, the judge is involved, and he/she can dismiss the case, declare a mistrial, exclude evidence, instruct the jury on the points of law, order the jury not

Re:Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-25 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jorpho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the way the ICC is set up, they would not recieve a trial by their peers. Without that we do not beleive that IUPG works. Then you really need to study how things are done in other countries. I'll use The Netherlands as an example: we don't

Re:ICC was Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-25 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030624.2056, Jan Coffey wrote: Personaly I see the ICC as a step twards European federalization. I think that is a good thing for Europe, but not for the States. It's too much too fast. Let Europe federalize first

Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-25 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030625.2101, Jan Coffey wrote: This is exactly why the US is staying out of the ICC. The regulations are not sufficient to guarentee that they will not be abused. Can you guarantee that someone who is given a trial

Re:Re:Re:It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-25 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jeroen van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Stardate 20030625.2102, Jan Coffey wrote: I trust an average person taken from the street far more than I would trust someone who does it for a living. So, when you feel ill, you ask a not-medically-trained average person from

US doing it's part for the environment :It's not just Bowie, or is it?

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Coffey
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/21273/story.htm BELGIUM: June 24, 2003 BRUSSELS - The United States will join forces with the European Union and other countries this week to develop a new technique to fight global warming pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) underground, EU

Re:Why?

2003-06-11 Thread Jan Coffey
I don't think that would be the most benificial. I think that this whole buisness needs to be played out for it ever to end. After all how would you feel in the same position? I know how I would feel. The question is, does Mr. van Baardwijk actualy want it to end? Can he humble himself to

Re:Why?

2003-06-11 Thread Jan Coffey
--- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let it go, and leave the old list alone. Or don't let it go, but call it for what it is. Their is no reason to sculk away, but resolution requires personal honesty, humility, and dignity. Come one Jeroen, do the honerable thing and step up. You wouldn't