SENATE PASSES HELMS AMENDMENT ON WORLD COURT

Newsday ^ | 12/6/01

[11th Earl of Mar]

WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to block U.S. participation in a new international criminal court that opponents fear could stage politically motivated trials of American troops and government officials.

The 78-21 vote added the language, introduced by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., to this year's defense spending bill.

The Helms provision's ultimate fate is unclear. The House version of the defense spending bill contains no such provision, but in May, the House voted 282-137 to include similar language in a separate bill authorizing State Department programs.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Helms' amendment, similar to freestanding legislation he introduced this year, would bar U.S. cooperation with the court, including use of federal funds or the sharing of classified information. It would give the president the power to use "all means necessary and appropriate" to free any American detained by the court.

It also would limit U.S. involvement in overseas peacekeeping missions unless the United Nations exempts American troops from prosecution by the court. Additionally, it would restrict foreign aid to other countries that fail to sign accords preventing American troops within their borders from being delivered to the court.

Oh, yeah! Let's let these globalists know what time it is!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Klinton (to her credit) voted "Aye." However, the Puerto Rican Leaders in New York City immediately called her a shameless, Pro-American, anti-Hispanic bigot.

Just kidding on the second part...

[VA Advogado]

Supposedly Dodd reformed.....remarried and just had a little baby.

With the waitress? Wasn't Kennedy suppose to have been born again in this manner a few years ago? Sans the child.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I eprsonally feel we should end our relationship with the U.N. and the I.C.C.

We should also treat them like the Palestinians allegedly wish to treat the Israelis. (So, Kofi, can you swim?) Then we can replace that wretched campus with something more morally upright...like an place where modern-day Incas can sacrifice virgins, for example...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A, zdravstvuite iz soyuza sovietskikh sotsialisticheskikh marylandskikh lyudei!

[Republican Wildcat]

bump

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You'd hang a jury on hate crimes? Cool!

[11th Earl of Mar]

Great. There's nothing like hypocrisy to really underscore our position on the world stage.

The hypocricy stopped when Clinton left office.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Musta taken advice from either his no-good daddy, Sir Henry Hydebound, or Global Powell on that one!

[spald]

"The new court, to be established as a permanent body at The Hague, Netherlands, was created by a 1998 treaty that President Clinton signed but the Senate has not ratified."

Boy, what a bunch of knuckleheads. If the Senate hasn't ratified the treaty, how could the permanent body be created?

[FreedomPoster]

Opponents such as Dodd retorted that if the United States does not join in establishing the court, "Our men and women in uniform will be subjected to terrible rules. You've got to be a player."

What an idiot. From what I can tell from the news, we ARE a player. In fact, we are THE player. If any other country tries to hold one of our military people for their little kangaroo international court, we should consider it an act of war and spring them immediately. I don't care if we're immediately sending them before a U.S. military tribunal under UCMJ, and thence to Leavenworth.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

Thanks for posting this.

HA bump.

[Dengar01]

Akaka, Hawaii; Biden, Del.; Bingaman, N.M.; Boxer, Calif.; Byrd, W.Va.; Cantwell, Wash.; Daschle, S.D.; Dayton, Minn.; Dodd, Conn.; Feingold, Wis.; Inouye, Hawaii; Kennedy, Mass.; Leahy, Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Murray, Wash.; Reed, R.I.; Sarbanes, Md.; Wellstone, Minn.

Now who was surprised by these no's? Let see Barbara Boxer, Leaky Leahy, DAsshole, The Drunk, Cantwell the Commie, Biden the Commie, and Screw the rest.

But the surprise is why did Dick Durbin, Dianne Fienstein, Chuckie Shummer, and Barbara Mikulski vote yes? I thought they would join their buddies.

[VA Advogado]

What is your problem with international trade?

[Brasil]

Hellery got mixed up--she would never knowingly vote with the pubbies.

[IRtorqued]

there should have never been a need for such a vote.
the vote should have been to

Press for U.N. info

[toenail]

"Yeah, stunning, isn't it? She must have misunderstood the instructions..."

She meant to vote "No," but voted "Buchanan" by accident.