tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post7832759378805413213..comments2024-03-23T19:16:01.555-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: UN review puts US on the hot seat about torture treatyjaninsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-59190152565895184302014-11-14T17:38:25.612-08:002014-11-14T17:38:25.612-08:00The UN has no power over us. We signed a treaty an...The UN has no power over us. We signed a treaty and made some promises about our behavior -- the only influence the rest of the world has over our compliance is to withhold their good opinion. They often do. Since the Declaration of Independence, we've thought our legitimacy had something to do with the "opinion of mankind." This seems an outlandish idea, but has more potency than we often realize.janinsanfranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-34190354880765707992014-11-14T12:51:38.785-08:002014-11-14T12:51:38.785-08:00I wonder how much real power the UN has about anyt...I wonder how much real power the UN has about anything. I guess they are down on US states, like Oregon, where the citizens have voted to legalize pot. Since it's considered a dangerous, controlled substance at the UN, they are not happy and trying to decide what they will do about it-- if anything. I was annoyed with them because alcohol is dangerous too if it's misused. In some countries heroin has even been legalized but I never heard them going after them. I have never used pot although my kids have. I voted though to legalize it due to the ridiculousness of putting people in prison for its use/sale when without a doubt alcohol has the equal potential to cause grief. Of course, I've heard of some who would like to have another Prohibition including both-- It was so successful in the 30s.<br /><br />The UN, as it functions today, is another of those places I tend to think more to the right and irritate the left. It is not that I would not like to see a world effort to make things better but not sure, humans, being what they are, it ever works out. Giving a worldwide organization power over our country isn't appealing to meRain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.com