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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141488)	4/12/2002 6:30:14 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

the liberal cultural elites, epitomized by our former libertine traitor of a president william jefferson clinton, will relentlessly pursue their twisted utopian vision of peace on earth. true patriots must never move on! we must fight them every step of the way. as john adams toasted on his deathbed, "independence forever!" World court now a reality Will supersede national sovereignty, even of countries refusing to ratify worldnetdaily.com Deemed by some as a grave threat to national sovereignty, the United States has lodged strenuous objections to the ICC. As late as Monday there were reports that President Bush had sought means to retract the signature of former president Clinton, who signed the treaty on his last day in office. A signature indicates a nation's intent to seek ratification. ....................................................................... Objections to the court by Americans are based largely on fears that such a court could bring politically motivated charges against U.S. presidents and military personnel. Crimes of "aggression" have not as yet been defined, leaving open to future interpretation any number of military operations. When one nation defends itself, is that aggression against another? So-called crimes against humanity include vague phrases such as injury to a population's "mental health." Who is to determine when such a crime has been perpetrated? Any U.S. citizens prosecuted by the International Criminal Court will be denied the guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. As of yet, the process for electing and rotating ICC judges is incomplete. Opponents of the court suggest that world events in the near future could find the U.S. and its citizens at the mercy of a panel of judges from non-Western nations, or of nations that seek to extort favorable trade agreements from the U.S. Critics ask: What is to prevent the court from prosecuting a U.S. president that topples Saddam Hussein without first seeking assurance from the U.N. that such military activity would not be categorized as a war crime? .................................................................................................................. Clinton appointee David Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador for war crimes, described the institution of the court as a "significant moment in world history." Scheffer, who was Clinton's point man for the ICC negotiations, now serves as senior vice president of the United Nations Association of the USA, a U.N. advocacy group. .................................................................... During important U.N. negotiations on issues from children's rights to trade disputes, European delegates have been increasingly hostile to what they characterize as the United States' "Lone Ranger" attitude. One U.S. delegate to the United Nations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, noted that Europeans were restless with American dominance since the fall of communist Russia: "They see the ICC as one means to curb U.S. power on this planet." THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Global court puts U.S. in tough spot Not ratifying U.N. tribunal could alienate coalition; indictment possible if terror war deemed 'genocide' worldnetdaily.com Some European delegates to a preparatory session for the ICC remarked that America's failure to ratify the treaty may "potentially alienate allies, thereby eroding support for global coalition against terrorism." United States allies that have ratified the ICC treaty in addition to the United Kingdom include France, Germany, Canada and Italy, among others. Several nations have indicated that the United States should not "act unilaterally" in its response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Globalists and TV pundits, including Phil Donohue, have insisted that the United States can no longer "go it alone" and must seek U.N. approval before launching any military response to Osama bin Laden. Syrian Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe, speaking at the United Nations, "affirmed the right of the United States, within the framework of the United Nations, to pursue the perpetrators." U.N. critics reject any such limitation on the American right to defend itself with or without the approval of the United Nations. .......................................................................................................................... New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani praised the United Nations for adopting Resolution 1373, an anti-terrorism resolution that establishes sanctions against nations that subsidize terrorism. Giuliani's formal address to the Assembly charged the United Nations to "hold accountable any country that supports or condones terrorism, otherwise you will fail in your primary mission as peacekeeper." Several delegates at the ICC session point to the International Criminal Court as the best weapon in that "legal arsenal." Not all agree with that assessment, however. Earlier this week, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., re-introduced the American Servicemembers Protection Act. The act eliminates military aid to non-NATO nations who ratify the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute was adopted in Rome in 1998, despite opposition by the United States. In March 1998, the Pentagon met with foreign defense attachés to warn them that the United States saw the ICC as a possible vehicle for politically motivated prosecutions. In April of 1998, Helms, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declared that the ICC would be "dead on arrival." The Cato Institute outlined several objections, including that the ICC would "produce arbitrary and highly politicized 'justice,' and grow into a jurisdictional leviathan." Cato also points out that future "vague offenses as 'serious threats to the environment'" could become additional prosecutable "offenses" under such a court. Critics of the court have cast the ICC as the dream of internationalists to create a world court – a complementary institution for the United Nations that would evolve into a world government. The World Federalist Movement promotes global governance and the ICC. The WFM dates from the 1940s and counts Albert Einstein among its champions. Einstein wrote, "I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself." .................................................................................................... Pace contends that the United States must accept limited sovereignty in the face of an interdependent planet where "globalization of justice" is the will of most of the world's democracies.