(November 17, 2015 at 8:49 pm)Aractus Wrote:(November 17, 2015 at 10:29 am)Dystopia Wrote: A legal issue that exists due a pseudo-objective smug sense of morality that is imposed on western nations for no particular reason other than pity and making people feel guilty. Is there any reason I should care about the UN or consider them a respectable institution in the international paradigm, other than the fact that it is ruled by countries with more power?
No it was made in the wake of the MS St. Louis tragedy, asshole.
If you really don't think it's important, then withdraw from the protocol. You do realise that your asshole country is the only first world State that has signed the protocol but not the convention?
Just one of many we haven't signed. And when we do sign them, we weasel out of them.
http://www.cfr.org/international-law/uni...ons/p11485
Quote:Writing in a January 2002 memo to President Bush, then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales claimed clauses of the conventions referring to the detention and interrogation of enemy combatants were “obsolete.”
See how easy that is, Danny?
