AMERICA'S RAW STORY
16TH POST
By Gary Brumback
US National
Sovereignty Vs International Criminal Court
A Debate
In
my previous post I wrote about how America’s international war criminals were
getting away with murder. Shortly thereafter I tweeted that I had tweeted a
message to the President-elect, Donald Trump, recommending that he arrange for
the US to become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). One of my
followers saw this tweet and tweeted me. The rest of this post is an exchange
of our tweets. After you have read them, decide for yourself whether you think
the US should become a member of the ICC, and more importantly whether you
think US war criminals should be held accountable at all for their war crimes.
Mr.
X. I believe your faith in the UN is naive.
The US should never submit to an international criminal court.
Me.
Why not? US war criminals responsible for deaths of countless people in foreign
lands. Without accountability civilization could not exist.
Mr.
X. It's a question of national sovereignty. A body unaccountable to the people
it would hold sway over is dangerous.
Me.
I see it as a question of international accountability for war crimes committed
by one sovereign nation against other sovereign nations.
Mr.
X. A nation that submits to international law is no longer sovereign.
Me.
You are exactly right. It's an international war criminal getting away with
murder.
Mr.
X. If we cast off our sovereignty in favor of an international court, we're no
longer free. If you can't see it, you're blind.
Me.
Yes, free to kill anywhere in world with impunity No nation should be above the
law that outlaws murder.
Me To anyone: What about the Nuremberg Trials against the Nazi leaders for their
war crimes? The trials violated Germany’s sovereignty and, if not held, the
criminals would have gone Scot free. Germany certainly would not have on their own
voluntarily prosecuted them.
Me.
To anyone: Since justice is inverted in America (see previous post), it is
unlikely America’s international war criminals will ever be prosecuted by
America’s injustice system. So they will go Scot free and their successors will
follow in their path.
WHAT DO YOU
THINK?
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