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To: Poet who wrote (7847)	4/9/2002 8:59:35 AM
From: JEB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

American Justice for Americans -- No International Criminal Court for Us April 4, 2002 Dear friend of liberty, The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon become a reality. The United Nations will hold a celebration for their new world court on Thursday, April 11, 2002 in New York and Rome. The International Criminal Court will claim judicial supremacy over the United States and its people. We are asking President Bush to make it clear to the International Criminal Court that the supreme law of our land is the Constitution of the United States -- not the ICC. Rescinding the American signature to the ICC treaty that former President Bill Clinton authorized would clearly express that conviction. If you haven't signed the petition to President Bush, please do so now. We are in the process of preparing the petitions for delivery to the White House. Link to Petition: thelibertycommittee.org Also, please tell a few friends about this petition. If you are one of the 100,000-plus people who have already signed the petition, thank you! Kent Snyder The Liberty Committee thelibertycommittee.org

To: Poet who wrote (7847)	4/9/2002 3:17:07 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 21057

I like Timothy Garton Ash. I have long read him in The New York Review of Books, and his reports on dissidents in the Eastern bloc were very fine. I think he almost has something here. But Europe will not any time soon provide a real balance to American power, if only because it is still too dependent on America to do the heavy- lifting, as was clear in Bosnia and Kosovo, and is enormously clear in out of theater operations. This is unlikely to change quickly. Additionally, the United States remains the economic powerhouse of the world, and Europe will only be a viable rival when it finishes resucitating its Eastern part, and when it begins to drop some of its drole inefficiencies to become truly competitive. Besides, already countries like France have to set content limits on movie theaters and subsidize their film industry in order not to be run over by Hollywood. The dissemination of American pop culture is inevitable, since it represents the most modern country to date, and much of what the rest of the world aspires to become. I would say, then, that there is nothing to be done about the situation, in any systematic sense, for the foreseeable future.