Stiff Right Jab: ICC: Putting America On Trial
Steve Farrell
April 18, 2002
Can you imagine? On April 11 an International Criminal Court (ICC), which would claim moral and legal authority over the United States and the entire planet, was born. Among the several nations which ratified the treaty that day were, “such supposed havens of tolerance and due process as Cambodia, Romania, Jordan, and the so-called Democratic Republic of the Congo.” (1)
We cannot let this pass. Here´s the truth. The real purpose of this court is to grant every communist, tyrant, thug, and radical activist, a day in court to prosecute the United States. Think about it, this epitomizes everything UN – to bring “law and order” to a community via the empowerment of the mob as peace officer, judge, jury, legislator, and mayor.
It´s lunacy.
But there´s more. The process that created the ICC proves UN claims to a democratic vision, false. 60 signatures out of a total of 180 member states legitimized this court.
What have we then? A UN that believes in democracy? No. A UN Charter modeled after our constitutional republic? Certainly not! A budding communist/fascist dictatorship posturing as the world's freedom fighter? Perhaps.
Consider:
Minority Rule
Minority rule is a principle of "democracy" under communism. Regarding the International Criminal Court, the strategy was, permit member nations to vote (via signature), demonstrating how "democratic" the UN is. Next, spit on "democratic" principle by letting 1/3 rule. Finally, insure the leftists in the US media ignore the truth, and poof! "Democracy," UN style.
Anti-American Legal Principles
As pro-communist, and anti-representative was the creation of the ICC, its legal principles are equally un-American. Consider:
No right to trial by jury.
No right to a speedy trial.
Judges, prosecutors, and counsel drawn from murderous totalitarian and authoritarian regimes with juridical views completely at odds with Western concepts of law and justice and specifically hateful of America and Americans.
No appeal of an ICC decision, except to the same ICC court.
A person convicted under the ICC may be sentenced to prison anywhere in the world the ICC chooses.
An ICC prosecutor may decide to bring charges against an individual based on NGO's, such as the ACLU, the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, etc. (2)
UN Founders and their Agenda
In government nothing occurs by accident. A dark cloud of suspicion has ever hung over the UN, for good reason.
Of the 17 individuals identified by the US State Department as having helped shape US policy leading to the creation of the United Nations, all but one were later identified as secret members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
Joining them at the UN´s founding conference were 43 members of the ultra pro-socialist, globalist Council On Foreign Relations, (6 of them also being CPUSA members).
The UN´s first Secretary General and orchestrator of the San Francisco conference, was later convicted as a Soviet agent – Alger Hiss.
No wonder, Former Top Communist Party member, Joseph Z. Kornfeder, warned:
“I need not be a member of the United Nations Secretariat to know that the UN ‘blueprint´ is a communist one . . . [The UN] and the Kremlin masterminds behind [it] never intended the UN as a peacekeeping organization. What they had in mind was a colossal Trojan Horse; . . . a pattern for sociological conquest; a pattern designed to serve the purpose of Communist penetration of the West. It is ingenious and deceptive.”
The ploy: Cry peace! Create a world coalition dominated by nations unfriendly to the US. Legislate and litigate the US to death.
ICC, on the Same Track
From the start, the UN has hated America, Capitalism, and Christianity. Nothing has changed. At any given conference, the UN delegates give communist dictator Fidel Castro standing ovations.
Question: Why?
Answer: Castro is the UN´s anti-US attack dog; the UN´s mentor on employing international law against America.
The ICC thinks like Castro.
The theme of the 1998 ICC founding conference, in Rome was gang up on the United States as the sole evildoer in the world. Using vaguely defined crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression – which the ICC asserts jurisdiction over – official ICC delegates and NGO spokesmen condemned the US for war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Yugoslavia; for death squads in Guatemala, for unfair application of the death penalty, for economic discrimination, and for excessive deference to victim´s rights. And yet they want more ways to get at the US. Thus delegates assured the claimants that the courts future jurisdiction might include ecological crimes, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, piracy, child pornography, kidnapping, political assassination, religious persecution, discrimination based on sexual orientation, etc.
You see the problem.
The ICC is a bad idea. It´s coming forth by non-democratic means, with totalitarian legal principles, and a sock-it-to-the-US agenda, presents one more layer of evidence that the United Nations is a Trojan Horse, which ought not be reformed, but abolished.
Contact Steve at cyours76@yahoo.com
Action Corner
E-mail your President, Senators, and Representatives and tell them to oppose US acceptance, in any form, of the ICC, and to co-sponsor Ron Paul´s H.C.R 23. Continue to voice your support for H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act. Join in the fight and join with the folks at getusout.org. Send a NewsMax.com PriorityGram and have your message hand delivered.
Footnotes
1. Grigg, William Norman. “The Trap is Set,” Review of the News Online, April 07, 2002. Visit jbs.org
2. Jasper, William F. “The United Nations Exposed,” (Appleton WI, The John Birch Society, 2001) pp 146-147