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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (630)7/4/2002 1:09:34 PM
From: gamesmistress1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 3467
 
This fundamental distrust of government is not a passing fad. It's not Bush cowboyism. This goes back to the founders and it has been a fundamental part of American politics for the entire life of the Union. And we're not going to give it up now, just to play along.

And if we distrust our own government, we damned well distrust international agencies even more. At least with our own government checks are in place, but with all these international institutions, we citizens of the US would have to grant power to them over us without any commensurate responsibility by them to us, or ability by us to change them if they overstep their bounds.

The one argument that Americans will never accept with respect to any governing body anywhere is to give it power, and trust that it won't be misused. All power will eventually be misused; it's only a matter of time. The reason we remain free is because in our system such grants of power are never unconditional or irrevocable.

The United States will never grant sovereignty to any external court which does not answer directly to the people of the United States. The government of the US cannot sign any treaty which creates such a court, and it cannot accept jurisdiction by any such court. This is based on the most fundamental principles we hold sacred about our nation and the relationship between its citizens and its government.

We will never give this up.

Never.

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