<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Tell me Bear, why didn't Native Americans get to keep their land if treaties are valid?</DIV>
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<DIV>Treaties are rather meaningless if the US Government can withdraw from them at anytime. </DIV>
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<DIV>And again, you fail to understand that the treaty is only valid because the US Federal Government Approves of it as law, not because an outside entity does. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 3/31/09, bear@moscow.com <I><bear@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: bear@moscow.com <bear@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com, donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com, sunilramalingam@hotmail.com, idahotom@hotmail.com<BR>Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 12:39 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Donovan, you wrote, <BR><BR>"I don't see the United States government as having the right to concede powers it doesn't<BR>have. <BR>The people of the United States never consented to international law. So it isn't valid<BR>unless if also <BR>happens to also be federal or state law.<BR>Treaties are simply agreements between to two or more parties. I don't consider them law <BR>abiding. They are simply if and then statements, such as if you give a $10 Billion and<BR>shut down <BR>your ship production I will not bomb you. If you don't I will continue, or if you allow us<BR>to ship in <BR>100 million auto parts, we will allow you to ship in 20 million computer parts if you<BR>don't, we <BR>won't. You must have the consent of the governed, international law doesn't."<BR>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<BR>* * * * * * * * * * * <BR>I am still amazed that you don't understand
the 6th Article of the US Constitution which<BR>stares in <BR>part: " Article Six establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United<BR>States made <BR>in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land".<BR><BR>End of argument, the US Constitution makes treaties the supreme law of the land. They ARE <BR>federal laws! Officers of the Executive Branch of government take an oath "to support and<BR>defend <BR>the Constitution of the United States", so if the violate the Supreme Law of the Land,<BR>they are in <BR>violation of that very<BR>oath!<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This message was sent by First Step Internet.<BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.com/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.com/</A><BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since
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