Another lawyer has pointed out that the U.S. and Nato are almost certainly violating another international law, the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the US has signed.
Article 20, for example, states:
" 1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.
2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law."
Propaganda is generally defined as "information or ideas methodically spread to promote or injure a cause, movement, nation, etc. The deliberate spreading of such information or ideas."
Anybody want to claim that Clinton, Blair, Nato, et. al. have not been methodically spreading information or ideas to promote the cause of war against Milosovic?
Anybody want to argue that Clinton, Blair, Nato, et. al, are not advocating hatred of Yugoslavian troops to incide our pilots to violence?
Of course, our President's view of the law is that when it's inconvenient, you ignore it. But some of us still believe that the rule of law is all that separates us from the jungle. |
