[extropy-chat] Re: Iraq and legality again

[Brett Paatsch]

Samantha Atkins wrote:

> If I was Iraqi I would almost certainly be in the resistance and  
> consider those cops turncoats to their own people.

Samantha, like you I am concerned for the Iraqi's but unlike you
I am not a citizen of the United States of America. 

Isn't the Constitution of the United States of America, every last
clause of it, *yours*?

Do you think you own fully enough what is *yours*? Do you
understand the powerful social system that is your inheritance
and at your disposal and has as its basis the US Constitution?

Please read Mike's post that points out that treaties duly ratified
are part of US law. I would like to discuss it and I would like
to discuss it with you as well. 

Before I return to my planned days work let me make one final
point Samantha. "Believing" was what the US President and his
allies claimed to be doing when they went into Iraq to find 
weapons of mass destruction. 

Believing at least strongly suggests a faith based view and 
professing belief in an emotionally charged discussion is like 
calling for others, perhaps even followers, to  answer with their
hearts and not be concerned much with the hesitancy that might
be the good counsel of their heads.  

One day I hope you might choose to express your moral 
concerns, your humanity and your convictions without invoking
"believing". 

Head and heart should proceed together. We have seen what
happens when they do not. 

Your words are yours to choose. 

Regards, 
Brett Paatsch