The International Criminal Court is expected to enter into force this year, having been ratified by 47 of the required 60 nations.
This is true.
How significant is it, at this time? Probably not much.
How serious a threat is it? I think it serious.
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UN Secretary-General Clinton?
John Doggett
WorldNetDaily
4-23-99
Several of my readers believe that Bill Clinton wants to be the next
Secretary-General of the United Nations. They do not believe that he will ride
off into the sunset in his mid-fifties, never to exercise political power on a
global stage again. They remember the aborted attempt of former Mexican
President Salinas to become Secretary-General. They believe that NATO's war on
Yugoslavia is part of Clinton's plan to stay in power for the rest of his life.
This weekend, NATO will celebrate its 50th anniversary. According to Thursday's
World Tribune: The United States seeks to use the weekend NATO summit to elicit
a commitment from alliance members to be prepared to engage in future conflicts
outside their region, U.S. officials said.
Summit leaders will discuss an American initiative that will allow NATO to
respond to threats of nuclear weapons or non conventional terrorism from
countries outside Europe or the United States, officials said. The initiative
will develop joint logistics and improve inter-operability command, control,
and communications facilities, and develop detection of chemical and biological
weapons.
According the Thursday's New York Times: "Kosovo has brought NATO into the
never-never land," said David Gompert, vice president of Rand who was on the
National Security Council in the Bush administration. "It has brought us into a
situation where a regime that slaughters its own people is no longer sovereign
and where the United Nations Security Council is no longer a requirement."
Gompert said that "If NATO cracks and as a consequence fails in Kosovo," there
would be a new realignment of the Western allies. In essence, he said, an
"unprepared" Europe would be left to take care of the defense of Europe and the
United States would turn almost exclusively to the defense of Asia.
What does the war in Yugoslavia have to do with Clinton and the U.N.? An
evaluation of key foreign policy decisions of the Clinton Administration
exposes a disturbing pattern.
In 1992, Strobe Talbot, who is now Clinton's No. 2 National Security Advisor,
said the idea of a nation-state didn't make sense anymore. Once he became
president, Clinton supported the Convention on Bio-diversity that they produced
at the U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The treaty
treated America as an ecological miscreant and protected third world countries
that are destroying their rain forests. In 1995, Hillary lead a delegation to
the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. This conference
proposed new U.N. guaranteed rights for children. One of these "rights" would
allow the U.N. to remove your child from your home if your 10-year-old didn't
want to obey you. In 1997, the Clinton Administration supported the Kyoto
global warming treaty. This treaty demands that America waste hundreds of
billions of dollars on initiatives that would have no impact on global warming.
However, it allows China and other massive polluters to get away scot-free.
In 1998, the Clinton Administration supported creation of an International
Criminal Court in Rome. The International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty says that
the U.N. can enter any nation and remove its leader if the U.N. decides that
the leader is a "war criminal." It also creates a permanent criminal
prosecutor's office. Clinton's reps backed away from the treaty when supporters
of the ICC claimed that it could overrule decisions of the United States
Supreme Court.
Throughout Clinton's administration, global government advocates have
complained that the UN didn't have enough money to carry out its "important
work." They have supported creating a global income tax, taxing all
international banking transactions, taxing all stock market transactions, and
taxing all proceeds of underseas mining. The tax on international banking
transactions alone would generate a trillion dollars for the U.N.
How does this fit with a campaign for Clinton to head the U.N.? Simple. It only
takes a majority vote of the United Nation's General Assembly to elect a
Secretary-General and each nation gets one vote. That means that the vote of
St. Kitts and Nevis, which has a population of 42,291 and an area that is
one-and-a-half the size of Washington, D.C., is equal to the vote of the United
States of America. Many of Clinton's foreign policy decisions have aided and
abetted the interests of other nations at the expense of America's security.
These nations will vote on the next Secretary-General.
If the move to change NATO's charter succeeds, it wouldn't take much for it to
become the military arm of the U.N. If the move to give the U.N. independent
taxing authority succeeds, the U.N. would become a global government with
unprecedented power and wealth. And Bill Clinton could be in charge of the
whole ball of wax.
What can we do to stop this living nightmare? First, we must demand that
America pull out of NATO. Five decades and hundreds of billions of American tax
dollars are enough. It's time for the US to protect its own national security
interests and let the Europeans take care of themselves. Second, we must force
our senators get off their hands and start protecting America's interests. They
have allowed Bill Clinton to do more damage to the presidency and America's
freedoms than any other president in our lifetime. If the Senators don't have
the stomach to fight for our freedom, they need to retire and let someone else
do the job.
John Doggett is a management consultant, lawyer, and business school professor
who lives in Austin, Texas. Talkers Magazine has selected John as one of the
100 Most Influential Radio Talk Show Hosts in America. Headway Magazine has
selected John as one of the 20 Most Influential Black Conservatives in America.
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