Well now, what have we here?.....

The following is a continuation of the theme of the last couple of days, 'Hypocricy in Action'....
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MEETING OF CONSULTATION OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Committee for Follow-up to the Twenty-fourth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Rio Treaty)

OEA/Ser.F/II.24CS/TIAR/RES. 1/0116 October 2001

Original: Spanish

SUPPORT FOR THE MEASURES OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE SELF-DEFENSE ESTABLISHED IN RESOLUTION RC.24/RES. 1/01 THE COMMITTEE DESIGNATED BY THE TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING OF CONSULTATION OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

EMPHASIZING the commitment of member states to maintaining and preserving international peace and security, in accordance with the OAS Charter and the United Nations Charter;

RECALLING the inherent right of states to act in the exercise of the right of individual and collective self-defense, recognized by the OAS Charter, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty), and the Charter of the United Nations

TAKING NOTE of resolution RC.24/RES. 1/01 of September 21, 2001, adopted at the Twenty-fourth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, acting as organ of consultation in application of the Rio Treaty, which resolution provides that "these terrorist attacks against the United States of America are attacks against all American states" and that "all states parties to the Rio Treaty shall provide effective reciprocal assistance to address such attacks and the threat of any similar attacks against any American state and to maintain the peace and security of the continent";

CONSIDERING that resolution RC.24.RES. 1/01 also provides that "the states parties shall render additional assistance and support to the United States and to each other, as appropriate, to address the September 11 attacks and also to prevent future terrorist acts";

NOTING the measures taken by the United States of America and other states, individually and collectively, in the exercise of their right of self-defense, in accordance with the OAS Charter, the Rio Treaty, and the Charter of the United Nations; and

REAFFIRMING the duty of states parties to implement effectively the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, including resolutions 1267, 1333, and 1373,

RESOLVES:

1. That the measures being applied by the United States of America and other states in the exercise of their inherent right of individual and collective self-defense have the full support of the states parties to the Rio Treaty.

2. That the states parties to the Rio Treaty reiterate their willingness to provide additional assistance and support to the United States and to one another, as appropriate, taking into consideration all the provisions of the Rio Treaty, in connection with the attacks of September 11 and to prevent future armed attacks by terrorists.

3. That the United Nations Security Council will be informed immediately of the text of this resolution and of any other decision this Committee may take on this matter.

Letter of John Negroponte to the President of the Security Council;
October 7, 2001
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The Representative of the United States of America to the United NationsOctober 7, 2001
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Mr. President:
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In accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, I wish, on behalf of my Government, to report that the United States of America, together with other States, has initiated actions in the exercise of its inherent right of individual and collective self-defense following armed attacks that were carried out against the United States on September 11, 2001.
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On September 11, 2001, the United States was the victim of massive and brutal attacks in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. These attacks were specifically designed to maximize the loss of life; they resulted in the death of more than five thousand persons, including nationals of 81 countries, as well as the destruction of four civilian aircraft, the World Trade Center towers and a section of the Pentagon. Since September 11, my Government has obtained clear and compelling information that the Al-Qaeda organization, which is supported by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, had a central role in the attacks. There is still much we do not know. Our inquiry is in its early stages. We may find that our self-defense requires further actions with respect to other organizations and other States.
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The attacks on September 11, 2001, and the ongoing threat to the United States and its nationals posed by the Al-Qaeda organization have been made possible by the decision of the Taliban regime to allow the parts of Afghanistan that it controls to be used by this organization as a base of operation. Despite every effort by the United States and the international community, the Taliban regime has refused to change its policy. From the territory of Afghanistan, the Al-Qaeda organization continues to train and support agents of terror who attack innocent people throughout the world and target United States nationals and interests in the United States and abroad.
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In response to these attacks, and in accordance with the inherent right of individual and collective self-defense, United States armed forces have initiated actions designed to prevent and deter further attacks on the United States. These actions include measures against Al-Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. In carrying out these actions, the United States will continue its humanitarian efforts to alleviate the suffering of the people of Afghanistan. We are providing them with food, medicine and supplies.
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I ask that you circulate the text of the present letter as a document of the Security Council.
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Sincerely,
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John D. Negroponte

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You don’t say? Well, did a little research on the inherent right mentioned in these letters I’ve posted of late. And the findings seem to indicate a far different picture. For instance:
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"Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would."

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- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763

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"Taking the opinions to be the same on this point, and he was sure if there was any room for change, it could not be on the side of the majority, the question will be shall less than 1/4 of the U. States withdraw themselves from the Union; or shall more than 3/4 . renounce the inherent, indisputable, and unalienable rights of men, in favor of the artificial systems of States......Can we forget for whom we are forming a Government? Is it for men, or for the imaginary beings called States? Will our honest Constituents be satisfied with metaphysical distinctions?"

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- James Wilson, Congressman, Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Supreme Court Judge, (The Debates in the Federal Convention, Sat. June 30, 1787, as reported by James Madison).

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"I go farther; and now proceed to show, that in peculiar instances, in which those rights can receive neither protection nor reparation from civil government, they are, notwithstanding its institution, entitled still to that defence, and to those methods of recovery, which are justified and demanded in a state of nature."
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"The defence of one's self, justly called the primary law of nature, is not, nor can it be abrogated by any regulation of municipal law."
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- James Wilson, from a series of lectures given between 1790 and 1792, 'Wilson, Of the Natural Rights of Individuals', in 2 The Works of James Wilson 335 (J.D. Andrews ed. 1896).
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"Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established."
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- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1797
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"Nothing...is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rightsof man."- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Cartwright, 1824, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 16:48.
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"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
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- Patrick Henry
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"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."
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- John F. Kennedy
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That is some pretty serious precedent, now isn’t it? How can the very reason for forming our Republic be abridged by those whom are supposed to be guarding it? Does that make sense? How can it be possible that the creature can dictate to the ones who created it? Think I’m getting a little more clear understanding of the aggravation that God must feel. For it is commonly held out and accepted by the majority of the world, that He did create everything, after all.