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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:20:46 GMT
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk -
International Criminal Court is the Latest U.N. Outrage: Komrade
Klinton has ordered a U.N. ambassador to sign the
1998 U.N. Rome treaty, which establishes an international
court. The senate probably won't ratify this, but it's still really
bad news. The treaty allows the accused to remain silent, guarantees a
translator and a defense attorney free of charge, but the decision is
made by the judges, not a jury, and there appears to be no requirement
of search warrants. Also, anything in the treaty can be changed by a
2/3 majority of the member states. I agree with Ron Paul that it's
time for the U.S. to pull out of the U.N. They're getting too big for
their britches.
There's a new issue of The Libertarian Enterprise:
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Letter from Joel C. Simon: an interesting take on the history of
the California "assault" weapons ban.
Once there were these crazed packs of rifles roaming the streets of Californian cities, assaulting people at random. Since the rifles were of different breeds and were a little difficult to identify, people just called them "assault rifles." You could tell an assault rifle from the regular kind not from what they did, since few people ever saw them actually assaulting people, but from the way they looked. You know, the way affirmative action works. If they had protruding hand grips or detachable magazines or folding stocks or flash suppressors or bayonet lugs, they were bad.
