This is bloody shocking. Not only dismantling and manipulating law institutions in the US, and Netanyahu trying the same in Israel, now this.
“It is not the ICC that Rubio is dismantling brick by brick – but the rules-based international order that grew out of the ashes of world war two.”
Not surprising, from him or the nation itself.
They don’t respect it anyway.
More individuals are gonna get arbitrarily sanctioned by the US Government.
Last time I checked they sanctioned 11 ICC officials over their feelings.
Make your escape plans from Visa, Outlook, WhatsApp, Apple, Mastercard, Windows, Facebook, Android and PayPal now before they cut you off.
USA: “Please allow us to commit war crimes on your sovereign territory”
I wonder why a bunch of conservative yanks would want that…?
The article explains it.
Yeah, no shit
I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough
I’ve been surprised at how many times people comment but don’t actually read the article. No need for the aggro.
And not all conservatives would want the ICC to be dismantled. Trump’s brand of ‘conservatism’ is not considered to be what many Republicans would have honoured in the past. They have now been trapped to the point they don’t move because they are afraid of Trump finding the way to get rid of them (as has already happened).
I don’t care what flavour of conservative they are
I will still cheer when they die.
I can understand that.
Isn’t America pretty much off limits for the ICC anyway? For some reason I was thinking that was like, part of the charter?
The US isn’t a signatory to the Rome Statute.
From the article linked in the post:
The international court, headquartered in The Hague, can only investigate crimes committed in states that are party to the Rome statute, the 2002 treaty that established the ICC. The United States has not ratified the treaty, nor has the court opened investigations into crimes committed on American soil.
The US also has a law known as the ‘Hague Invasion Act’:
The act gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”[3] (ICC), located in The Hague, Netherlands.
We can pardon ourselves in our own country, but how do we stop other countries coming after us for fucking up the world energy.
I guess you’re in the US. Please do all you can to stop the war from continuing.
You guessed wrong.
So what do you mean by
how do we stop other countries coming after us for fucking up the world energy.
imaging the whole reply in quotes or as a thought bubble coming out of the characters head, in the picture.
Thank you.
Sometimes, as a literary device, we write things that might be said by other people.
Yes, I am aware. Without punctuation, however, a statement can become ambivalent. In recent years, punctuation has been disappearing perhaps due to social media and other fast online use. The way my generation writes is influenced by the way we were taught which was more formal. Commas were encouraged everywhere (but not Commies).
Err, I’m the other side of fifty. It was a flippant comment made in a vernacular that was appropriate for the response.
Please stop trying to language police the situation.
“My generation”… What a pompous way of talking.
Your generation? All of you? Really? Or is that some generalist bullshit dressed up as fact?
What are you really angry about?
You reckon I’m policing the language? That is your judgement. Are you persecuting me for using language in a particular way? Isn’t that what you were saying I do? Crikey, you were talking about a ‘literary device’. Wasn’t that a bit, I don’t know, patronising?
I was making a bit of fun at the way we were taught.
No worry’s ,he’s on a list
