Posted on 03/19/2019 10:55:47 AM PDT by rktman
Last week, the Trump administration in the person of secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave the European international set another swift and deserved kick in the derrière. That's when the secretary of state made it known that the U.S. will not grant visas to members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) who attempt to come here to investigate any alleged war crimes by members of the American military in Afghanistan. The ICC has been making noises to that effect. Pompeo also said economic sanctions could follow if the ICC persists.
Before getting into the matter, some background on the ICC is useful.
The ICC is an international tribunal centered in The Hague, Netherlands. It claims to have the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for international crimes ranging from genocide to war crimes to crimes of aggression. This "court" was birthed by the Rome Statute in July 2002.
As of this writing, 124 countries have signed on to the treaty. Here is the list.
The United States most definitely did not sign on, as it views the ICC as a threat to national sovereignty. As the treaty was wrangling its way going through the approval process in 2000, President Clinton decided not submit it to the U.S. Senate for approval, nor would he recommend that his successor do so.
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Love. This. President.
Obama would have given them visas, bj’s and free coke.
The Philippines threw them out, we need to do the same thing. Just a bunch of retarded old hippies.
I have more choice words for these clowns but The Man said it “nicely”. Even 3rd world countries like the Philippines told these morons to F off..
ICC is like UnitedNazis, an evil front group trying to implement the New World Order (AKA: Soroz’s Fourth Reich), imho.. it has to be eliminated
The comical side of this is that if you had substance for such a charge, you can present it to the Pentagon, and they will conduct their own investigation. If some Lt Col, or Captain has conducted war crimes....then a US military court will convene, with legal representation provided to the suspects. If found guilty, they will be sentenced by their ‘peers’.
For some group of ICC folks to show up...absolutely no one is going to cooperate, and they will simply be fishing for charges. You might as well agree to have UN observers at polling stations in Detroit.
The issue isn’t the ICC investigating soldiers here in the U.S. It’s the risk of arrest and prosecution by the ICC for former U.S. soldiers who travel to any of the 124 countries who signed the ICC treaty that gives it the authority to prosecute alleged war criminals.
Larry Sinclair is jealous.
To steal and modify a famous line...
So, how many division does the ICC have?
The court that persecuted Chile’s savior Pinochet.
I like the OR ELSE part.
There is a series on Netflix,”Crossing Lines” about the ICC.
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“..the ICC as a threat to national sovereignty...”
is this what is currently being referred to as “nationalism?”
National sovereignty must be protected at all costs. That is why strong borders is so important.
Any military that subjects its service members to the ICC has no right to having a military at all.
Yeah, let some nation grab and arrest a US soldier or politician for the Afghan war. Let me know how that works out for them.
Big talk. They won’t dare.
No, they arrested that murderer Pinochet based on a case out of Spain, involving some Spanish citizens, which Spain claimed gave them jurisdiction.
It was not under the auspices of the dubious ICC.
Any military that subjects its service members to the ICC has no right to having a military at all.
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China did not agree to the “treaty”. Of course, they are far smarter and love their citizens more than the dumbass, American hating globalist Obama.
love LOVE love him
Fortunately, this treaty was never even submitted for senate ratification. Trump should do so, so it can be shot down in flames and therefore lose ALL legitimacy even as a talking point.
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