Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves
From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 14:13:12 +0200

The state of Georgia or the state of California or the state of Arizona 
might just very well have as little "intimate" ties with the federal powers 
as the individual european ones do with the international courts. Not all 
states, particularly the southern states, have always been "happy troopers" 
when it comes to federal powers. I compare individual european states to US 
states.

I realize the court you were talking about, but you already got an answer to 
that. The US doesn't want to join, because it knows it would have a few 
things to answer. If you asked a felon, the felon wouldn't like to see 
federal courts either.

It's not a very big trick for a big powerful country to set itself above the 
law be it for moral or for less flattering reasons. But I wouldn't use such 
considerations as something to be proud of, as you seemed to be when you 
realized that european countries were actually willing to play by the book 
or answer to the consequences ... which is all the international court is 
about. We wouldn't want the GI's in Okinawa raping teenage girls to have to 
go to court now, would we?

All the best,
Daniel


>From: Allan Wafkowski <allanwafkowski@mac.com>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves
>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 06:32:18 -0400
>
>Daniel, I'm not sure how you have connected the American Supreme Court with 
>the World Court.
>
>Allan
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 04:48 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
>>
>>>Americans are not breed to be so docile as to easily give over its 
>>>internal affairs to an entity called the World Court as Europeans have 
>>>urged us to do.
>>
>>So the supreme court is just a bunch of cronies smoking cigars?
>
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