No backing down on this one [President Says No to Global Kangaroo Court]

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, July 2, 2002 | Wesley Pruden

[JohnHuang2]

The law, as Dickens famously observed, "is a ass," and now the Europeans are insisting that everyone, including us, kiss it.

The new International Criminal Court is the brainchild of the Utopians, some of whom may be bubbling over with good intentions, but a lot of whom are consumed with penal envy, and long to lock up all American miscreants. "All" includes all of us.

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, July 2, 2002

Quote of the Day by Southack

[UnBlinkingEye]

Any questions?

Why hasn't Bush denounced the 'trial' of Milosevic?

[Joe Brower]

You may find this of interest.

[First_Salute]

Thank you JH2.

[Mark17]

What I am wondering is, would the US mount any type of military rescue of any US troops who may be kidnapped from various places around the world, and taken to this place? Some guys may be on vacation somewhere, and taken prisoner. What will we do then?

[Nephi]

1) Bush's 'unsigning' of the I.C.C. treaty constitutes...

I have seen no evidence that this anything more than rhetoric.

What, exactly, did Bush DO to rescind our signing of the treaty?

When discussing the ICC, why does the Bush administration fail to mention the fact that US participation in the ICC is unconstitutional?

[Grammy]

"A 'global treaty' without us isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Any questions?"

None 8-)

Thanks John. You always make me laugh. It is a delight to read someone else's comments that strongly defend the President, as I do. I love the way he plays this game.

[Mark17]

What, exactly, did Bush DO to rescind our signing of the treaty?

I think the Senate must ratify this treaty, and they won't ratify it either.

[SteamshipTime]

No despotic global tribunal shall have jurisdiction over citizens of this [social democracy].

That privilege is reserved to domestic tribunals.

[Free the USA]

Bump

[RightWhale]

Got to respect an author who uses hyphens fearlessly.

[kayak]

U.S. pulls advisors from Timor mission: Withdrawal follows row over U.N. war crimes court

US Yanks 3 Out of East Timor in Anti-Court Fight

[Wolfstar]

Answer: Depends on who our President is if and when your hypothetical ever happens. If George W. wins a 2nd term, our citizens -- including those in uniform -- will be safe from the predatory Euro-weeny Left until Jan. 20, 2009. After that, all bets are off if this nation elects a Gore, Gephardt, Daschle, Edwards, Clinton II, or other traitorous American Leftist whose loyalties are to their Euro comrades rather than to this country.

[kayak]

2) In adamantly endorsing this treaty, the American left stands revealed for the liars and hypocrites they are. Liberals, who feign 'concern' over 'due-process' and courtroom fairness, who wail and moan over military tribunals for al-Qaeda terrorists, are all a ga-ga for the I.C.C., where checks-and-balances are non-existent and prosecutors are answerable to no one. In effect, lefties care more for the 'rights' of Osama Bin Laden than they do for fellow citizens.

As usual, Your Highness, your insight and perception are priceless!

[Mark17]

This answers my question about military action, to rescue Americans who are kidnapped by these slime balls. Legislation has already been passed to authorize it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/709434/posts

(I am too lazy to do the proper HTML thing)

[Mark17]

Thanks for the input.

[SkyPilot]

Thanks John!

I just returned from Austria. During a tour of Salzburg ( where the Sound of Music was filmed), the very nice, old tour guide told us one of the Cathedrals (first built in the year 749, and "modernized" in 1650) was bombed during WW II---quite by accident. They rebuilt it, and it was re-opened in 1959.

As we walked along, I asked her about it. She picked up on my apologetic tone, and she grabbed my arm and said: "Oh no, you Americans are heros, all of you. Europe was awash in blood, and you stopped it---again.

Thank God for GW Bush. And thank God for my countrymen.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, y'all =^)

[subterfuge]

Bush's 'unsigning' of the I.C.C. treaty constitutes the sharpest reprimand of Mr. Clinton to date. This action is a humiliating defeat for X42, who signed the treaty as one of his last acts of defiance (December, 2000).

2) In adamantly endorsing this treaty, the American left stands revealed for the liars and hypocrites they are.

Yes! A repeat bump! In the meantime, conservatives should be ready to help beat back the liberal onslaught that is surely to come from the lefties. I don't write letters to editors myself, but I love sending a scathing letter to idiotic "journalists" pointing out their illogic and politically correct B.S., FWIW.

[First_Salute]

See: The U.S. case against the court (ICC) is bogus on its face., Minneapolis Star-Tribune, July 2, 2002, by editorial staff (posted by wallcrawlr). My reply there:

Why is there no mention of the truly large atrocities committed by the extreme left-wing in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune?

Will Castro and the communists of Cuba be arrested?

Will the communists of Southeast Asia be arrested?

Will the communists of Asia be arrested?

Heart of darkness: Cambodia's Killing Fields

 August 8, 2001 [CNN online]

By CNN's Joe Havely

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The fields of Choeung Ek on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, carry a dark secret.

Across the baked earth scraps of cloth and human bone poke through the soil and are slowly bleached white by the harsh tropical sun.

In the center stands a glass-walled shrine containing more than 8,000 skulls -- the remains of just a few of those who died here.

These are the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

Here, just a few kilometers from the center of Phnom Penh, tens of thousands of people met their deaths -- entire families wiped out.

Many of those killed were intellectuals or trained professionals -- people considered counter-revolutionaries by the Khmer Rouge leadership bent on turning Cambodia into a [communist, socialist, leftist, fascist] peasant's paradise. (In " [ ] " --- mine, F_S)

Towards the end of its rule, as the regime became increasingly paranoid and turned on itself, many once senior Khmer Rouge cadres also met their end at Choeung Ek.

Men, women and children -- some just a few months old -- were killed here, often in the most violent and brutal ways.

With bullets in short supply, the condemned were forced to kneel before an open grave then stabbed through the head with a sharpened bamboo stake ...

Reign of terror

The fields of Choeung Ek contain more than 100 mass graves

In the corner of the field stands a tree ...

Against its trunk the heads of babies were smashed by young men brainwashed into believing their actions would free Cambodia from colonial imperialism ...

Reuters contributed to this report.

Will the liberals and leftists in America, who insisted upon the non-use of D.D.T. around the world (and little or no substitute), since the early 1970's, be arrested for the deaths of millions of people who then suffered, slowly their deaths from malaria?