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To: WOSG
Demand as a CONDITION OF STAYING IN THE UN THAT ONLY DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES GET A VOTE.

Amen! Although I would amend that to include only nations with a constitution that ensured a limited republican form of government. That would exclude even the U.S. under our current form, whereby the majority of laws are usurped and then upheld by judicial fiat.

89 posted on 09/12/2002 3:10:17 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau
Amen! Although I would amend that to include only nations with a constitution that ensured a limited republican form of government. That would exclude even the U.S. under our current form, whereby the majority of laws are usurped and then upheld by judicial fiat.

I think that would exclude every country on earth then! :-)

We cannot expect perfection, but at least a few ground rules, like: Respect freedom of speech, right to worship, have a system of laws, the right to own property, dont engage in torture or holding political prisoners, and have a representative Republican form of Govt (Was corected on that "Democratic" is a general term these days we use to mean Republics, as there are no nations that are direct Democracies. It's a Republic that works, not Democracy, but the latter term is "popular" with the Demos :-) )

Maybe 2 levels. The first level gets you in, make it easy enough that only the ral outlaw states get booted, like North Korea etc; the second level gives you voting rights. You need some real representative Govt. sorry, Mugabe, Saudis, Pakistan, Syria, Cuba, etc. etc.

130 posted on 09/12/2002 8:00:56 PM PDT by WOSG
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