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Thread #127208   Message #2836147
Posted By: 3refs
11-Feb-10 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Torture in a civilised world
Subject: RE: BS: Torture in a civilised world
That's a tough one to answer, but to steal a line from another country: "We The People"!
"The Preamble serves solely as an introduction and does not assign powers to the federal government".

I'm not a big fan of The United Nations. As a Canadian, my emotions are mixed, mostly because of the following about Lester Bowles(Mike Pearson;

Pearson drafted the speech in which Prime Minister St. Laurent proposed the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), signed the enabling treaty in 1949, headed the Canadian delegation to NATO until 1957, and functioned as chairman of the NATO Council in 1951-1952. Pearson also headed the Canadian delegation to the UN from 1946 to 1956, being elected to the presidency of the Seventh Session of the General Assembly in 1952-1953. As chairman of the General Assembly's Special Committee on Palestine, he laid the groundwork for the creation of the state of Israel in 1947. In the Suez crisis of 1956, when the United Kingdom, France, and Israel invaded Egyptian territory, Pearson proposed and sponsored the resolution which created a United Nations Emergency Force to police that area, thus permitting the invading nations to withdraw with a minimum loss of face. For this he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize!

Gotta start somewhere!

You have to find out what you can agree on first. I'm not a big fan of "reasonable doubt". I don't think I'd ever want anyone executed solely on eyewitness testimony(most unreliable evidence that can be presented in court), physical evidence(can be planted), DNA can be screwed up(not to mention corrupted).

Some people walk this planet that really don't deserve to take one more breath!