U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body

NY Times ^ | March 10, 2005 | ADAM LIPTAK

[Fiddlstix]

[Coleus]

Some good news in the international arena.

[El Gato]

United States had withdrawn from the protocol that gave the tribunal jurisdiction

There's a Cowboy in the White House (and apparently a Cabayero over at the Justice Department, not mention the Iron Lady at State) Yee Haw!

[thoughtomator]

Peter J. Spiro, a law professor at the University of Georgia, said the withdrawal was unbecoming.

"It's a sore-loser kind of move," Professor Spiro said. "If we can't win, we're not going to play."

Professor Spiro's premise, of course, is that the United States should be the loser. The same goes for all international institutions. Come to think of it, putting the Professor in an institution might be the ideal solution.

[longtermmemmory]

important tool of those who are now OBSESSED with "containing" the USA. Important to the peacenics, important to the French, important to the EU deluders, important to everyone who is obsessed with showing the American Republic as the longest surviving and youngest nation is still somehow a failure.

international adjudication is crucial to the enemies of the USA. It is their ONLY viable weapon.

[potlatch]

Hi SmartA! I'm sure he is kept well informed. He indicated way back that the U.N. would not have jurisdiction over private American individuals.

[longtermmemmory]

he is a typical law professor. Law professors are almost universally so far left that they make college professors like ward churchil look moderate right leaning.

[Lancey Howard]

LMAO!!! The New York Times really hates this!

[A Citizen Reporter]

Spiro’s recent scholarship includes: “Disaggregating U.S. Interests in International Law” in Law and Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2004),

Methinks this "scholar" needs to study his subject a bit more.

[TapTheSource]

ping!

[Rocky]

"It's a sore-loser kind of move," Professor Spiro said. "If we can't win, we're not going to play."

Idiot. What does he think, we signed a blank check?

[CyberAnt]

"If we can't win .. we're not going to play"

EXACTLY!!!

[Smartass]

I received a copy today of "Men In Black," and a hard time laying it down. Mark levin did a super job compiling and writing it. He pointed out of the Supreme Court's use of international law to arrive their decisions...Ridiculous.

[Centurion2000]

or we just make our own New UN

We could really piss them off and make it the League of Civilized Nations.

[dmanLA]

Ping!

[Peach]

Yippee!

[HardStarboard]

Memo to the US Supreme Court:

American law applies in the United States.

International law applies elsewhere!

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[longtermmemmory]

He is the type of person who would never survive a physical fight. The mentality that does not comprehend that the only LEGAL recourse at times is physical and the "paper law" is not all.

Law professors like that (like judges) have their entire validation wrapped up into believing that the law is above all. (they make god in their imagage too but that is another story) Above all as long as the outcome is leftward directed.

[CAluvdubya]

We could really piss them off and make it the League of Civilized Nations.

I like it!