Global injustice
townhall.com
DULLES, Va. -- On Dec. 3, 1969, Bill Clinton wrote to Col. Eugene Holmes, director of the University of Arkansas ROTC program. In that infamous letter, Clinton stated that he "loathed" the military. On Dec. 31, 2000, 31 years later -- almost to the day -- Bill Clinton, as commander in chief, proved how much he still loathes America's military by subjecting them to the "justice" of a rogue international court.
On New Year's Eve, just days before boarding Air Force One for the last time with a load of stolen ashtrays and White House towels, Bill Clinton signed the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court (ICC), another unaccountable United Nations bureaucracy that became reality this week. The ICC claims jurisdiction over cases of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and "the crime of aggression," which the U.N. has never defined.
Although a permanent international court has been the globalists' dream since the end of World War II, it wasn't until widespread violence broke out in places like the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s that Kofi Annan and his cohorts went to work
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Once in motion, their court would claim jurisdiction over every person in the world and grant the ICC prosecutor extraordinary powers and ICC officials lifetime immunity.
For those who say that the court does not violate national sovereignty, let them look to Slovenia, which ratified the treaty on Dec. 31. Slovenia was forced to amend its constitution, change its penal code, alter its criminal procedure code and conform its law on police forces to adhere to the ICC before the U.N. would accept its ratification. Like many countries, Portugal was forced to adopt a constitutional amendment. And although Poland's criminal code already has provisions dealing with genocide, crimes against humanity, aggression and war crimes, it must conform them to ICC authority.
Americans brought before the court will be denied protection against double jeopardy, as the ICC retains the right to review U.S. court decisions and retry individuals if the ICC determines decisions "were not conducted independently or impartially," or were for the purpose of "shielding the person concerned from criminal responsibility."
How do ICC proponents square that with Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which reads, "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish"? On issues where it alleges jurisdiction, the ICC treaty will claim authority over the Supreme Court, subjugating its decisions to ICC review
The ICC treaty also lacks constitutional safeguards, like the right to confront one's accusers; due process; trial by jury; and a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury. |
