American Invasion of the Netherlands?

If you want to see Senior Administration Officials tried in the Hague, perhaps it's time to write your Congressional representatives and ask the US to join the International Criminal Court...

107th Congress
H.Amdt. 31: Amendment prohibits U.S. cooperation with the International...

Amendment prohibits U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court (including restrictions on U.S. military participation in UN peacekeeping operations and the transfer of U.S. classified national security information, and the provision of U.S. military assistance, to the Court). The amendment also authorizes the President to use all means necessary to bring about the release of U.S. military personnel and certain other persons held captive by or on behalf of the Court.

An amendment to H.R. 1646 [107th]: Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003.

An Amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 107-62 to provide legal protections to ensure that American citizens, especially U.S. military personnel, are not prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for actions undertaken by them on behalf of the U.S. government unless and until the Senate ratifies the treaty establishing the Court.

Offered: May 10, 2001
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas DeLay (R-TX)
Actions:
May 10, 2001: Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. DeLay.
May 10, 2001: On agreeing to the DeLay amendment (A001) Agreed to by recorded vote: 282 - 137, 1 Present (Roll no. 106).

source: www.govtrack.us...


I wonder if this has anything to do with France dropping torture charges against Rumsfeld.

Why would they want to join the ICC when theyd invade another country in order to get their own war criminals back to the US?

They obviously think war crimes are ok if they are committed by the US.

reply to post by Flyer


True. And I am a Yank.
Sad world we live in....

Well anyone should think the same about their own countrymen, war criminals are war criminals and its pretty sad a country takes pro-active steps in order to prevent war criminals from being charged.

reply to post by Flyer


ICC membership might serve as a disincentive to preemptive warfare.

This was big news in the Netherlands a few years ago. I think it's not right that you don't want warcriminals to appear for the tribunal. Regardless of what country they are from.

Invade the Netherlands? Never. They'll work out clandestined deals with the Hague. It was the Dutch who settled the most of America from 1645 to 1845, who denouced slavery as early as 1683, and established America's first church. I know, my ancestors were among the Dutch who did all this. We even founded a few villages in New York state.

Invade? Never.

reply to post by qxlb52


I thought it was the Germans who settled most of the US...

The Hague is just a prelude to the beast kingdom and the antichrist. We should resist it with armed force if necessary. These are the same folks that want to arrest you if you spank your child or if you buy vitamins without a doctors approval (Codex Alimentarius)

By the way, I am in no way a Bush supporter. I just wanted to point out that submitting to a world court governed by socialist dictators is not a favorable outcome.

reply to post by SevenThunders


Socialist dictators? So you're a conservative, and either you or your parents lived during the 50s, and you've been instilled with the "left=bad" nonsense.

When you say "The Hague", are you referring to the city, or one of the organisations that work there?

reply to post by dave420


Pick any one of the monstrous EU bureaucracies and that will suffice as a surrogate for the dictatorship that is coming. You might call me a 'conservative', only in the sense that I wish to conserve the constitutional republic as envisioned by the founding fathers of the United States of America and in particular the Bill of Rights. I do not desire some remote foreign government, influenced primarily by anti-christian (atheist or muslim) autocrats deciding what my 'rights' are.