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2003-06-06 International

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Posted by Steve White 2003-06-06 01:15 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why would any nation agree to this agreement? It will only serve the ends of leftists and police states.

Posted by TJ Jackson 2003-06-06 02:52:06|| 2003-06-06 02:52:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Between the MANY objections to the ICC there is the problem of democracy and separation of powers.

The judges of ICC are unelected be it directly or indirectly (when judges are selected by elected bodies)

And there is NO legislative body defining the limits for the judges: it is them who define the "law" and then go after people having broken it. So there is a strong temptation to mold the law in order to be able to go after the guy who displeases the court. I will pass on the primadonism of Carla del Ponte whose actions would have exposed her to disciplinary action in most democratic judiciaries (violating presumption of innocence or secret of the instruction).

So my advice is: ignore the ICC and if it really gets in the way then have a couple cruise missiles "suicide" in the building

Posted by JFM 2003-06-06 04:22:29|| 2003-06-06 04:22:29|| Front Page Top

#3 And why exactly should the US not be a pert of an International Court of Justice? If the US is confident that it's soldiers commit no human rights violations, then there's nothing to be scared of, is there? If there's a different law for the US compared to other countries, then the US shouldn't expect any other war criminals to get indicted either. Maybe we should just release Milosevic.

Posted by Profshan 2003-06-06 05:57:42|| 2003-06-06 05:57:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Read JFM's post above, Profshan. Membership of the UN's voluntary, is it not? Why should the ICC be otherwise?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-06-06 06:35:42|| 2003-06-06 06:35:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this the same kangaroo court that named Blair a war-criminal ?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-06-06 08:32:23|| 2003-06-06 08:32:23|| Front Page Top

#6 All I want to know is, Is that guys name really Dick Dickert?

Posted by Mike N. 2003-06-06 15:18:01|| 2003-06-06 15:18:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Tell those monkeys to pass any damned rule they want, we'll ignore them anyway.

Hope it helps.

Posted by mojo 2003-06-06 15:53:36|| 2003-06-06 15:53:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Completly OT, but since no one has mentionned it yet... To all imperialistic yankee warmongers : thanks for that unilateral, unmandated, hegemonic intervention on that particular day of june, somewhere along the coasts of normandy. And of course, the same go for the others unilateralists involved, Canadians and britons. Thanks.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-06-07 04:37:12|| 2003-06-07 04:37:12|| Front Page Top

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