OUTRAGEOUS
It would be possible to arrest (without warrant or due process) !
Reuters news service is reporting that despite heavy U.S.
opposition, the first permanent global criminal court to try
individuals for the world's most heinous crimes is only four
nations shy of becoming a reality.
Now it's up to US to stop the UN from destroying U.S.
sovereignty.
As of this week, 139 countries have signed a 1998 treaty to
establish the International Criminal Court and 56 of them have
ratified it. A total of 60 ratifications by national
legislatures is needed for the tribunal to be established.
"We're creeping very close to the 60 ratifications needed,"
U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard told reporters.
Bill Pace, head of Coalition for the International Criminal
Court, an advocacy group, expects all 60 ratifications to be
completed by mid-April, the next preparatory commission
meetings for the court.
The United States is worried about frivolous law suits from
developing countries against U.S. servicemen stationed around
the world. The Bush administration has even asked the United
Nations whether it could rescind Washington's signature from
the treaty, signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton at
the end of his term.
You read that right. In a last parting shot, Bill Clinton
signed away U.S. sovereignty. If this treaty becomes law, it
could:
** Make all of us criminals -- the police arm of the ICC
would have the power to arrest (without warrant or due process)
any citizen for any violation they name. Charges of "crimes
against the environment" could be levied against land
developers, or even just someone building their "dream home."
** Our military actions would have to be first approved by
the U.N., or our soldiers could be prosecuted for war crimes
and "crimes of aggression." Our military actions in Granada
or Panama, for instance, could be deemed criminal.
** Our Bill of Right protections, like the requirements for
a search warrant, trial by jury, and a speedy trial, would be
gone when charged by the ICC.
** The protection against "double jeopardy," being tried for
the same crime twice, would be gone. The ICC can try someone
over and over until they get the result they want. And there
is no appeal.
The only good news is that in Congress, opposition to the
International Criminal Court is led chiefly by Republicans in
both houses, who have sponsored numerous amendments to bills
that would cut funding for U.S. involvement in the court and
end military aid to some countries that have ratified its
establishment. Other proposals would authorize the use of force
to free an American from the court, dubbed by Europeans as the
"The Hague invasion clause."
Sponsors of the measures intend to come to some agreement on
the proposals with the Bush administration by mid-April.
Last October, Belgium Foreign Minister Louis Michel, acting on
behalf of the European Union, and German Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer wrote to Secretary of State Colin Powell
expressing concern about the proposed legislation and asking
the administration to soften it.
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