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The following is a time line of treaties made, treaties broken and massacres disguised as battles.
The treaties were out the window.
The problem with treaties is they allow tribes to exist as sovereign nations, and we can't have that.
Custer recommends that Congress find a way to end the treaties with the Lakota as soon as possible.
They were tired of treaties.
As removed as we, the dominant society, may feel from a massacre in 1890, or a series of broken treaties 150 years ago, I still have to ask you the question: How should you feel about the statistics of today?
In Washington State, they've made the teaching of treaties and modern Native people mandatory in school curriculum.
Treaties have been broken since the day they were signed.
That would change our lives, if treaties were actually upheld.
Treaties are the supreme law of the land, and that would change so much, if you actually asked your representative officials to appropriate those budgets.
When I was a diplomat negotiating the disarmament treaties with the Soviet Union in Geneva in the 1970s, we succeeded because we understood we shared a destiny with them.
This guy has to go and sign treaties and meet foreign dignitaries.
Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.
Now we already have international treaties on nuclear and biological weapons, and, while imperfect, these have largely worked.
Now, technologists, business leaders and economists all basically agree on what national policies and international treaties would spur the development of alternative energy: mostly, a significant increase in energy research and development, and some kind of price on carbon.
But there's no hope in the present political climate that we will see U.S. energy policy or international treaties that reflect that consensus.
Ask why so many countries criminalize drugs they'd never heard of, why the U.N. drug treaties emphasize criminalization over health, even why most of the money worldwide for dealing with drug abuse goes not to helping agencies but those that punish, and you'll find the good old U.S. of A. Why did we do this?
Change the global treaties.
We have international treaties that recognize that refugees are a shared responsibility, and yet we accept that tiny Lebanon hosts more Syrians than the whole of Europe combined.
It's very active, it's governed by all kinds of treaties, and it has got that control function in it.
The unfortunate thing is that now, as we look at the independent analyses of what those climate treaties are liable to yield, the magnitude of the problem before us becomes clear.
Massive Soviet cheating on bioweapons treaties made that very clear, as does every illegal drug lab in the world.
It could have been harder to have arms treaties, if instead of nuclear weapons there had been some smaller thing or something less distinctive.
It means negotiating with heads of state, and with secretaries of state in 50 countries to sign treaties.
I mean look, 1918, the Treaty of Versailles, and all the treaties before that, the Treaty of Westphalia and everything else, were about protecting the sovereign right of countries to do what they want.
Maj, Gen. George Armstrong Custer, (Robert Shaw,) who comes to the conclusion that our treaties with the Indians are a sham.
Austria is party to practically all major international human rights treaties and has traditionally played an active part in their drafting.
When it does ratify human rights treaties, it renders them inapplicable to U.S. officials.
There are ancient taboos on the use of “poison or plague” as weapons or for warfare, and doing so has long been stigmatized in many cultures and prohibited by customary international law and international treaties.
First, as the Helsinki Final Act put it, every sovereign nation has an inherent right “to belong or not to belong to international organizations, to be or not to be a party to bilateral or multilateral treaties, including the right to be or not to be a party to treaties of alliance; they also have the right to neutrality.”
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