US supports ICC for the first time
The Obama Administration has signaled it’s support for the war crimes court, formally called the International Criminal Court, for the first time since President Clinton signed the agreement in 2000 according to the Associated Press. President Bush denounced the court because of the near-certainty that it would be used as a political weapon.
But the United States insisted on including a provision in the resolution to protect Americans from investigation or prosecution by the International Criminal Court, known as the ICC. It requires that any citizen of a country that hasn’t joined the ICC be investigated or prosecuted in his home country – not by the ICC – for any alleged actions stemming from operations in Libya authorized by the Security Council.
Obama hopes that it will only affect the current Libya problem, but I can see how even including this provision, it will still be used against the US like everything else we try to do in United Nations. Since most of the world hunkers down behind the US for world crisis and depend on us to do the dirty work for them, that makes us most susceptible to misuse of the court.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy
Any American official who would turn over an American citizen to a world court for ANYTHING needs to be booted out. Right now. They are traitors. Period.
Merely one more step towards the complete surrender of our sovereignty to the UN. I don’t care if it does sound like I’m a nutjob but the evidence is simply too strong. When SCOTUS has justices researching case law from foreign countries to interpret American laws, you know there is a problem.
I hope that the military is paying close attention. And the CIA, and the DEA, and the FBI…any of our agencies that have an international mission have now just been paralyzed. I am most concerned about our soldiers. How are they supposed to fight when they face possible prosecution BY A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AIDED AND ABETTED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT???
1. The US will join the ICC within a week of Mssrs Bush-43, Cheney, and Rumsfeld being arrested in the name of the ICC by a Progressive.
2. We’ll learn about it during the Friday evening news dump, a day after the Dallas Morning News headlines, “Where’s Mr. Bush?”
3. The ICC will respect the condition in exchange for payment. Real cash, not a borrowed Chinese MasterCard.
The key code word used by the UN and our illustrious leaders in DC is, Communitarianism Oh, yea. The man that started this stuff? He has full time access to PeBO and has since teaching college.
No American Government official has the authority to have anyone tried before the ICC. They are all bound by the US Constitution, which clearly states that the Supreme Court is, well, supreme. The ICC is either a lesser court (which the UN would never agree to, as that would mean every country could say the ICC was lesser than their highest court, and the ICC would become a huge waste of time) or the ICC is a court with higher authority than our Supreme Court–which, constitutionally, it can’t be recognized as such by our government, no matter how you slice it. To president/senate/house has the authority to sign or ratify any treaty which says as much–they simply don’t have the authority to sell out the supremacy of the Supreme Court.