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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: koan who wrote (241823)9/3/2013 8:24:08 PM
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once upon a time, when the world was much larger and younger,
there was a body of overseers called the united nations. it was
comprised of representatives from countries all over the world.
its purpose was to help make decisions in the world about important
international things that were larger than one nation's scope of power
and action.

they'd issue guidelines and address complaints by individual
countries whose sovereignty was being impinged upon
by other individual nations. (i think they also had a small list
of a few basic human rights that all people living on earth should
enjoy like breathing and eating and not being tortured or killed.)

genocide used to be frowned upon by the world community.
if a country engaged in genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass
murders, etc., they were called before the UN body and questioned.
if it appeared that these crimes against humanity were taking place
they would be asked to stop it!

i believe this UN body also had joint military forces to provide enforcement
of some important international laws, rules and suggestions.

if we had a UN now we would take a vote on syria's use of
chemical weapons and the secretary would write out a ticket to
the offending country and ask them to cease and desist the offensive
behavior or risk occupation and even arrest and trial by an international
force of 400 million police-type dudes and some kind of international
or world court with one million judges like oprah winfrey.

i wish we still had an international body like that. we need international
rules and referees. you saw what happened when the NFL officials went
on strike. it's not pretty.
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