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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (472115)4/15/2009 1:53:08 PM
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We are bound to oppose torture under our own laws, American values, and individual human consciousness which supersede international decrees. However, in this case it coincides well with the UN treaty. We are not bound to definitions and classifications the UN declares.

The United States Supreme Court in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004) said that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights "does not of its own force impose obligations as a matter of international law."
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