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ZombieGak Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 12:03 PM
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43. so what's your approach to defending the Geneva Conventions?
Edited on Sun Oct-29-06 12:04 PM by ZombieGak
Your approach of refusing to embrace the Ninth as the protector of all unenumerated rights and looking instead for courts to expand rights is about as self-defeating as trying to defend the Geneva Convention as merely some long-held international agreement and not recognizing that the Constitution makes all international treaties the supreme law of the land. It’s that latter point that is the strongest card.

Why you would defend Dems as they continue to play a weak card in defending rights instead of rethinking a failing strategy is beyond me. Perhaps you can enlighten me.
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