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To: The Electrician
Control Arms called on governments to introduce global principles to regulate transfers of weapons and ensure that they do not end up in the hands of human rights abusers.

The problem with this statement is that it ignores the fact that GOVERNMENTS are predomininantly the human rights abusers.

21 posted on 06/19/2006 6:55:33 AM PDT by Disambiguator (I'm not paranoid, just pragmatic.)
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To: Disambiguator

How true... And how predictable... Lefties routinely cheer on government abuses (it's for the sake of the children, after all)...


31 posted on 06/19/2006 8:16:00 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: Disambiguator
During the 20th century, wars killed about 40 million people while governments killed over 100 million of their own citizens.
36 posted on 06/19/2006 9:44:56 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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