XPost: alt.politics.democrat, alt.culture.outerspace, sci.space.policy   
   XPost: sci.space.station   
   From: clj@panix.com   
      
   henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) writes:   
      
   > In article <501f9880.0311241449.3c3f2f79@posting.google.com>,   
   > Allen Thomson  wrote:   
   >>So when the US uses its bizarrely overbroad but written-down-in-   
   >>law definition, it gets a pass.   
   >   
   > Not even the US has claimed that its bizarre definition has any standing   
   > in international law.  That's strictly a tool of domestic repression, and   
   > should not be brought up in a discussion of treaties.   
      
   With the important caveat that, as you have pointed out in the past, the   
   US government has a very broad definition of "domestic" when it comes to   
   enforcing its rules.   
      
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