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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. economic aid could only flow to countries that have agreed not to surrender Americans to a world court for prosecution of war crimes, under a measure the U.S. House of Representatives approved Thursday. The 241-166 vote by the Republican-controlled chamber expanded the current prohibition on military aid to such countries. The target of the amendment was the International Criminal Court, which began operating last year in The Hague, Netherlands. It is a permanent court that is supposed to enter cases involving genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity when the countries involved cannot work out a...

On March 31, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in The Hague, ruled in favor of suit brought by the Mexican government against the United States regarding Mexican nationals currently sitting on death row.  If, like most Americans, you consider court rulings from The Hague about as relevant as the Eurovision song contest, consider the cases of two men, the first an American citizen, the second a Mexican. In 1992, a Mexican judge sentence[d] Chicago-born Alfonso Martin del Campo Dodd to 50 years in prison for the murder of his sister and her husband, despite the fact that the...

Responding to a constituent's request to oppose the Law of the Seas Treaty, Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., told his constituent that the treaty did not surrender national sovereignty. When pressed for an explanation of the Senator's claim, when Article 2(3) clearly says that "sovereignty over the territorial sea is exercised subject to this Convention ...," the senator's staff said, "We'll have to get back to you on that." After three phone calls over seven days, Myron Nordquist responded, not to speak for the senator, but as an adviser to the senator. He says that Article 2(3) does not surrender national...

The security fence is dragged before an international court that has been fed one-sided evidence The UN's anti-Israel theater is playing a new venue: The UN's International Court of Justice is hearing the case of Israel's security fence. The judges may be unbiased, but the question brought to them by the General Assembly is nothing more than the UN's routine discriminatory treatment of Israel dressed up in lawyers' robes and wigs. Same music, same lyrics, new costumes. In December, the pro-Palestinian majority in the General Assembly passed a resolution that asked the court to examine the legal consequences of Israel's...

Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said Friday he was confident Mexico will win an International Court of Justice battle to cancel the executions of 54 Mexican citizens on death row in the United States. The government has claimed it is illegal to kill the prisoners because they were refused their right to legal assistance from the Mexican consulate. The United States argues that granting Mexico's request to cancel the executions would violate U.S. sovereignty. "This is a very important case for Mexico, and we will not fail. Not one Mexican who has been denied his consular rights (in the United...

U.N. Condemns Attacks on Workers NITED NATIONS, Aug. 26 — The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution today declaring that attacks on United Nations aid workers on missions "constitute war crimes." The resolution, originally proposed last spring by Mexico, was passed one week after a suicide truck bomber devastated the United Nations mission in Iraq, killing 23 people, including 18 United Nations staff members and the mission's leader, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The resolution was an answer to Secretary General Kofi Annan's plea to "bring to account those who attack these innocent and unarmed civilian humanitarian workers." A potential confrontation...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday suspended military assistance to nearly 50 countries, including Colombia and six nations seeking NATO membership, because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution. As the deadline passed for governments to sign exemption agreements or face the suspension of military aid, President Bush issued waivers for 22 countries. But the 22 countries did not include Colombia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Colombia, where the government is fighting leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers, has been one of the largest recipients of U.S. military aid...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 (UPI) -- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf said Saturday efforts were growing to try President George W. Bush as a war criminal before an international criminal court. The Iraqi minister said "there are law professors from Latin America, the Arab region and Europe" joining the effort. During his daily press briefing, the Iraqi Information Minister said a total of 140 Iraqis were killed and 351 others injured by coalition airstrikes on the country in less than 24 hours. He also accused British forces of bombarding food warehouses in Basra while a number of coalition reconnaissance...

<p>DON'T BE FOOLED by Colin Powell. With testimony before the UN Security Council last week, the secretary of state brought many formerly ambivalent politicians and pundits into the war party. But that is a measure of how callow (immature) the entire American debate over war against Iraq has been. The question is not whether Saddam Hussein is up to no good. Powell's indictment confirmed the Iraqi's malfeasance, although with no surprises and no demonstration of immediate threat. The question, rather, is what to do about Saddam's malevolence.</p>

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico said Thursday it has asked the World Court in the Hague to resolve the case of 54 Mexicans on death row in the United States who allegedly were denied their rights to consular representation under an international treaty. Mexico's foreign relations department has made such allegations against the United States in the past -- one recent case led President Vicente Fox to cancel a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush last summer. But this is the first time officials have brought the matter to an international court. In a news release, the foreign relations...

Below is the full text of the ICDSM's motion, filed with The Hague Tribunal on 5 November by Nico Varkevisser. The motion contains our proposals for solving the life-threatening health crisis brought on by the ICTY's abuse of Slobodan Milosevic.

<p>After World War II, the victorious allies rounded up top Nazis, put them on trial and executed many of them. The Nuremberg trials established the principle that waging aggresssive war is a hanging offense under international law.</p> <p>Yet Bush, egged on by Ariel Sharon, is planning to wage aggressive war against Iraq.</p>

U.S.-EU Split on International Court Resurfaces Tue Aug 13, 6:28 PM ET By Elaine Monaghan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A transatlantic tussle over whether Americans should face international justice resurfaced Tuesday as the United States accused Brussels of inappropriately telling European Union ( news - web sites) hopefuls to follow its lead on the issue and not Washington's. A State Department spokesman said EU advice to would-be members not to exempt Americans from the justice of the International Criminal Court until the 15-nation bloc agreed a position was "inappropriate, in seeking to direct candidate country foreign policy choices in advance of...

Informers From the Left Moshe Feiglin 12 August 2002 Email this story Print this story What is this business with the Peace Bloc all about? What makes them wish to inform on IDF officers at the International Court in the Hague? Have they gone out of their minds? How could they commit such blatant acts of treachery? Two elements are involved in this issue. The first is an ancient Jewish mental illness. The phenomenon of a Jew who runs to betray his fellow Jews to the Gentiles is not a new one. It began with the Hebrew who hit his...

Freep this CNN.com poll. It deals with the world court. I know that it has a ton of votes and it is the Commie news network so it's probably rigged but you may as well try.

By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Washington said on Monday it was pulling all three U.S. soldiers out of a U.N. force in East Timor to back up its hard-line threat to kill off U.N. missions one by one until its concerns about a new global war crimes court were met. "It has started in East Timor. We are pulling out our three peacekeepers there," a U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. But U.S. officials had no quick answer when asked what it would do about another 75 Americans in East Timor who were helping train the...

Rights Groups Assail U.S. Efforts to Win Exemption from International Criminal CourtFri Jun 28,11:00 AM ETJim Lobe,OneWorld US United States and international human rights groups are calling on members of the United Nations ( news - web sites) Security ( news - external web site) Council to reject U.S. efforts this week to exempt U.S. citizens and others serving in UN peacekeeping operations (PKOs) from the scope of the new International Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first permanent tribunal to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and other crimes against humanity. • Coalition for the International Criminal Court • Amnesty International •...

YES voting, which now has 62%, is winning this poll and A YES means you are IN FAVOR OF the International criminal court (AND THE UNITED STATES PARTICIPATING IN SAME!). The NOs only have 38%. Obviously, they haven't heard from us Freepers!! Please go to http://forums.ft.com/2/OpenTopic and let them know what YOU think.

Next week, March 18 through March 21, is going to determine whether liberty continues to exist in the world or whether everyone will fall pray to the schemes of the United Nations to become a one-world government imposing a New World Order. My friend, Henry Lamb, the chairman of Sovereignty International, [www.sovereignty.net] recently wrote about the similarities between Hitler's mad dreams of global dominance and the United Nations' careful, slow creep and crawl toward the same goal. In the end, just as the United States and its allies put an end to Herr Hitler's villainy, the US remains the...