Obama may put Americans under world judges’ power
Obama may put Americans under world judges’ power
International Criminal Court issues are focus of delegation to The Hague
By Michael Carl
WorldNetDailyPresident Obama has dispatched a delegation this week to The Hague to explore issues involving the United States’ possible participation in the International Criminal Court, an organization critics charge could be used to prosecute Americans under international legal standards for actions that are not crimes in the U.S.
“The Obama administration would like the U.S. to be a party to the court,” said Brett Schaefer, an international regulatory expert with the Heritage Foundation.
“The Obama administration would like to establish closer ties with the ICC if it turns out the U. S. can join the court. The objective here is to address the major objections to the U. S. joining the court,” he said.
The court was introduced to the U.S. when President Bill Clinton signed the Rome Statute in 1998. But President George W. Bush pulled the U. S. out in 2003 over concerns that the ICC might prosecute American soldiers for war crime charges coming from the U. S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The concern was that the ICC doesn’t recognize many of the U.S. Constitution’s provisions protecting defendants in criminal trials, such as the right to a trial by jury and protections against double jeopardy. Read entire article >>
The desire by the globalists, including Barack Obama, to merge America with organizations like the International Criminal Court will eventually happen. So what’s the big deal?
We will be told when we can go to war and how we may and may not conduct that warfare. Just look at the heat that Israel has taken for their campaign against Hamas, and they aren’t even members of the ICC. Essentially we will fight wars not only handcuffed by politicians within our own nation, but by foreign courts.
Will merging with foreign courts eventually affect our Constitution and how rulings are made? It most certainly could. Members of the military and private citizens could be sued by international courts.
