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Posted on 07/21/2026 8:32:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
With the pointless war of choice in Iran going poorly, the Trump administration has declared a virtual war on the international criminal court (ICC). Secretary of state, Marco Rubio, vowed on Monday to “dismantle” the court as a supposed threat to US sovereignty. His rationale is laced with sophistry. The administration’s real goal is to secure impunity for war crimes, even those committed on the territory of ICC member states.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed and a video posted on X, Rubio conjures up a dystopia in which local American officials such as police officers or border patrol agents “could be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe, found guilty under international laws we neither consent to nor control, and then imprisoned thousands of miles from America”.
This is utter fiction. The ICC has no jurisdiction over crimes committed in the United States. Unless Donald Trump were to start deploying police officers or border patrol agents abroad, the ICC would have no capacity to charge or prosecute them.
Nor can the US government claim not to have consented to the laws applied by the court. They are drawn from treaties such as the genocide convention and the Geneva conventions and protocols that the US government has either ratified or incorporated into its military manuals. Is it really un-American to outlaw genocide?
While Rubio complains that the US government cannot “control” international law, no one should be able to. Law is meant to bind people, not be controlled by them. Although Trump has said “I don’t need international law,” that is a vision no decent leader should embrace.
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Because a global government is accountable to no one.
Nor is there any recourse.
Oh, the Guardian ….
The Guardian of failed ideas
Because it exists!
It is a Soviet-inspired collection of globalist Marxists who wish to rule the globe...
IMHO, the final airstrike in Iran should be immediately followed by a strike on this gaggle of despots...
Except that its not an utter fiction as the socialist America hating Manchester Guardian claims - not when the same ICC which has no authority over Americans because America never ratified the ICC treaty presumed to try to indict Americans. If they would arrogate to themselves the power to indict Americans abroad despite having no authority to do so, why would they stop at America’s national borders?
The ICC was conceived to prosecute Americans. Period. No need to sign on.
International “laws” are nothing but gentle peoples agreements, violated at whim, with no consequences.
But what about an overseas traveller? Would the ICC have jurisdiction over them?
The Founding Fathers would be appalled at the very idea of an International Criminal Court (ICC).
Kenneth Roth — where in the US Constitution do you see the ICC?
The People of the US didn’t write the ICC into the judiciary as defined by the US constitution and the Constitution doesn’t grant the ICC any powers.
The Supreme Law of the Land - that is, the US- cannot be in the Netherlands.
Isn’t Kenneth Roth a director of the goofy organization Human Rights Watch ?
The guys who pestered Jordan into letting one of the people involved with the Malaysia terror summit in January 2000 go loose, even after phone numbers linking him to the 1993 World Trade Center bombers were found in his pocket litter? He ran from Jordan to Iraq, perhaps via Lebanon according to one report.
Keeping those crazy 7th century savages from obtaining nuclear weapons is pointless? If all goes well the Iranian people overthrow their regime and the revolution against Islam that started there spreads to other Islamic countries. Ending the plague of Islam from the World seems like one of the best reasons imaginable for Mankind.
Because it’s overstepping it’s own mandate. The US is not a party to the Court, and also even if a country is a party to the Rome Statute, if it is able to prosecute because it has a viable justice system, it is not subject to the Court.
“Why does the US want to ‘dismantle’ the international criminal court?”
BECAUSE IT’S BIAS AND IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYONE AND HAS IN THE PAST ACTED LIKE IT WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE LEFT.
Also because we in the USA have been ignoring those whinny little pu(*y for years.
The Guardian is tabloid trash.
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