http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALaw/USJapanSecurityTreaty.html

And the whole foundation of American government is based on natural law:

http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALaw/LawsofNature.html

It never felt so good to ban someone.

But there’s a major flaw in your hogwash. You’re running around at the speed of the Internet visiting blogs so you can run back here all outraged to post what others you agree with are saying about some story.

Take Amnesty International, an organization I could really care less about. But when a argument is too outrageous and pat, it’s usually thickly sliced baloney. If you bothered to actually read the report I believe you’re outraged over they cover the point:

“The briefing does not cover in any detail the broader implications of the bombing campaign. It does not evaluate the extent of the human rights impact, including violations of the rights to life or economic, social and cultural rights such as the right to food, health and housing, and does not address longer-term economic impact and the massive internal and cross-border displacement. Nor does it address the attacks by Hizbullah into Israel and their impact on civilians – these are being addressed elsewhere. This briefing highlights one aspect of the conflict, but underlines the need for an urgent and comprehensive international inquiry into the conduct of the hostilities by both parties.” - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE180072006

(emphasis added)

I’m not defending the report. AI should cover all aspects in this situation. But they made it clear the focus of the report and to read a lot of other stuff into it is convenient spin.

Intl law doesn’t get into natural law: you’re criticizing an apple for being insufficiently orange-y.

Gulags? Commies? Those terms are absent from the post above. Stop making sh*t up and stick with what’s on the page.

As far as “codified” international law the whole point of the piece was to take the law to task for ignoring natural law, the highest tenet of which is a right to life which by its self evident nature give a human being the right to survive, i.e. self defense.

The way you rebut this isn’t by screeching to the heavens about gulags and commies, but by finding self-defense codified in intl law.

Glenn Reynolds has been pointing to several people talking about a UN report that minimizes the importance of what many hold to be the most basic of all human rights, that of self defense.
20. Self-defence is a widely recognized, yet legally proscrib…