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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141501)	4/17/2002 6:03:52 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

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 .................................................................................................................................. 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.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (141501)	4/17/2002 6:19:22 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 164684

World government rising worldnetdaily.com In his last hours in office, President Clinton briefly interrupted his issuing of presidential pardons for convicted felons to sign us on to the ICC treaty. Now the Bush folks may be going wobbly, as well. "U.S. Softens Its Stance as World Court Is Ratified," ran the headline over a Financial Times story last week. It went on to report: "Though the Bush administration deeply opposes the world court, Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, yesterday took a surprisingly conciliatory position. He did not rule out cooperating with the United Nations Security Council in sending cases of war crimes, genocide, or crimes against humanity to be tried at the world court." Previously, Prosper said, "The U.S. is not and will not be a part of the ICC." He even suggested the president might "unsign" the treaty. Indeed, with America fighting a war on terror, with U.S. troops in 100 countries, with anti-Americanism rampant among the global elites who will dominate this ICC as they do all the other international institutions in which we are ensnared, it is imperative that we behead this baby rattlesnake in its crib. For the real target of this ICC is the sovereignty and independence of the United States. Its very creation is a statement by the "international community" that human rights trump national sovereignty, that the U.N. has the moral and legal right to intervene in nations to end human-rights abuses as it defines them, and to try, convict and imprison national leaders. ........................................................................................................................... Americans seem unable to understand that there exists today in the dreams of internationalists and globalists a plan for a world government, the rise of which requires an end to the independence, sovereignty and liberty of the country we love and to which we have sworn allegiance. Now, the institutions of world government – the U.N., WTO, IMF, World Bank, World Court, ICC – were created for high-sounding goals: World peace, to facilitate free trade, to rebuild war-torn Europe, to ensure justice is done to the Pol Pots and Idi Amins and their victims. But as each of these global institutions grows, it evolves and assumes more and more power. None is ever shut down; none ever disappears. They are all made to accrete power and last forever. And just as the United States government grew in power to where it asserted a right to crush in a civil war and dominate the states that had created it at Philadelphia, so the goal of the coming world government is to supersede and one day rule the nations that midwifed its first-born institutions in the closing days of World War II. When the United States assumes the chairmanship of the U.N. Security Council in August, President Bush should unsign the Rome Statute creating the ICC and sever all connections to it. Though he will be accused of unilateralism, of "isolating" America, the isolation of America from world government is a duty that presidents must perform to remain faithful to the Constitution and their oaths of office.