If their charter doesn't explicitly say ...

Post #384,560 by drook 12/23/13 4:09:26 PM Reply	If their charter doesn't explicitly say ... "... where not prohibited by existing treaty or local, national or international law." does that mean they're clear? -- Drew
Post #384,574 by boxley 12/24/13 9:43:39 AM Reply	the constitution doesn't adress non US issues except when dealing with inter govenmental treaties, executive signs them, senate ratifies them. After 20 years they are no longer in force, standard US behavior dating to all of the early treaties with Indians, Mexico, UK etc. Rules have no meaning to America outside of our borders. Been that way since 1776 why change now? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #384,580 by folkert 12/24/13 11:20:32 AM Reply	Wow. I'm almost beginning to think you actually DO believe your own spew. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #384,582 by boxley 12/24/13 11:46:48 AM Reply	You have any evidence to the contrary that the US wipes its ass with any treaty it doesnt like after a few years? Read a history book. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #384,592 by hnick 12/24/13 4:11:38 PM Reply	Curiously enough... Box is right on this one. As a country, we have a number of faults, but keeping our word is not one of them. It's getting worse. Now we're lying to our own as much as outsiders.
Post #384,638 by mmoffitt 12/26/13 11:10:46 AM Reply	I think that was the single greatest contribution... of my nine year old self being in Soviet Russia. That experience taught me at a very young age that my government was fully capable of lying to me.
Post #384,729 by Ashton 12/28/13 9:31:19 PM Reply	Lucky us! 'Twas My Gramma who sowed the fertile seed of Questioning the unicorns in my 'civics' books.. I owe her much--mainly time and sentimentality saved, about flags and related paraphernalia of jingoism everywhere. You need to write Your book, too--You vas Dere! Charlie; I reckon not many still above ground possess such experience, and textbooks reveal Nothing. The kid-brainwashing can be ameliorated only via rilly-good Stories by people who have lived the various 'sides' and Can calmly set-out the +/- experience(s). I wot.

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