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Oh, and SEAL marksmanship instructors are an embarrassment to the US. I guess admission standards have gone down and quality got diluted. Seriously.
But hey, that's why you need new allies!
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.
Originally posted by HershOstropoler
"We didn't want to hurt your feelings, so we sent our clerks instead of our real operations."
So you didn't send your elite bureaucrats to Redtape 2002 in Austria?
Can you imagine SOCOM, operatives embarrased by a Balkan nation of Lithuania and clerks argued to death by Elite Australian Bureaucat corps?
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.
Btw, who is this Ann Coulted in your sig? Sounds like a sick *****.
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.
Annie is the Darling of the rabid right. And they all want to bonk her.
“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)
Originally posted by Saras
Oh, and SEAL marksmanship instructors are an embarrassment to the US. I guess admission standards have gone down and quality got diluted. Seriously.
But hey, that's why you need new allies!
Six teams is a bit too many, plus we have to run lots of people through (any of the SOF organizations) just to get the qualification tabs, so they can ticket punch for their careers.
That really is the problem with SOCOM - all the component orgs except the USAF pararescue (who are pretty narrow specialists) are bloated.
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Originally posted by HershOstropoler
"We didn't want to hurt your feelings, so we sent our clerks instead of our real operations."
So you didn't send your elite bureaucrats to Redtape 2002 in Austria?
Our elite bureaucrats work for the State of California - they can take a state rolling in money, and play games and make it look and act virtually bankrupt.
When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."
Originally posted by Saras
Btw, who is this Ann Coulted in your sig? Sounds like a sick *****.
She's an attention whore posing as a political pundit for the right - her previous book was called "Slander" about how all the evil libruls do nothing but besmirch the great names and noble motivations of conservatives, so there's no political dialog in the US because of these evil name-calling libruls.
Here newest book is called "Treason" and it's her explanation about how all the evil libruls are a bunch of America-hating traitors. Oh, the irony, but she's a tribute to her hair color.
Nah, Roland, don't besmirch the rabid right like that. They want her dressed in leather and carrying a whip so she can tie them up and dominate them.
When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."
“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)
Nah, Roland, don't besmirch the rabid right like that. They want her dressed in leather and carrying a whip so she can tie them up and dominate them.
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Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.
Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.
Ad 2. Cases can only be brought if the crime has been committed on the territory of a signatory (the two other options are no problem for the US). If say Georgia has ratified the ICC statute, and US troops commit a massacre in Georgia that falls under the crimes for which the ICC is competent, trying them is in no way extraterritorial - it is based on Georgian sovereign rights.
That explanation puts us on the same page, 'extraterritorially' at least.
The whole Washington fuzz about this is not about facts or concerns, it's about idelogical hysteria.
You may call it 'ideological hysteria', I call it common sense. I don't support giving away our rights to international organizations, especially where there is no democratic representation.
And your inept attempts to construe effects that aren't there doesn't change that.
Inept? My, we are a saucy little German on the other end of the world. Its easy to throw around such comments when you're unlikely to face any consequences.
Effects? By that do you mean possible bogus prosecutions?
A couple of facts
Afghanistan is a signatory.
-from the ICC website bold is mine
Without doubt, the most important principle of the Statute of Rome is that the Court complements national jurisdictions and that it may only exercise its jurisdiction if the States concerned are unable or unwilling to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes which fall within the competence of the Court.
Here's a hypothetical situation for you.
What if the ICC prosecutor decides that Afghanistan is unable (by virtue of the american threat to its sovereignty from the presence of occupying troops) or is 'unwilling' to prosecute american 'war criminals' in Afghanistan. What are the protections against the president of the USA (for example) from being indicted under these conditions?
Dont give me any 'it wont happen' comments? If there are legal protections to prevent that situation (or if I've misrepresented the situation), I'd be glad to hear them.
(a) To their conduct outside the United States, where
(b) The US courts have already ruled repeatedly that US government personnel (civilian or military) are not restrained by obligations imposed by the US Constitution, but
(c) foreign nationals (or US citizens) captured doing whatever by the happily unrestrained personnel described in (b) above, are also entitled to none of the protections of the US Constitution, AND
(d) Such tribunals (if any) formed of US military personnel to try (if ever) such foreign nationals or US citizens need not bother with any such provisions of the UCMJ and MCM as they feel inconvenient, as the rules for such tribunals may be made up ad hoc by the executive branch of the US government.
Was there a point to all that?
The US is once again trying to swing it's **** and cut a bigger swath than the rest of the world, while simultaneously getting bent that the rest of the world might actually impose some sort of international system for trying these types of offenses.
Get a sense of perspective and consistency.
If you're refering to the US trying to force those countries to give them exemptions from prosecution, then I agree. It's not a good policy. Either we're in the ICC or not.
"That explanation puts us on the same page, 'extraterritorially' at least."
So you'd say EU law is extraterritorial as it applies in all 15 member states?
"I don't support giving away our rights to international organizations, especially where there is no democratic representation."
Well your joining is another issue. You're not in it, few will miss you. Just accept that the ICC statute does not take away any "rights" of yours.
"Its easy to throw around such comments when you're unlikely to face any consequences."
You know, EU member states have a lot of peacekeepers around the world. If you are so worried, we should be worried too about being open to bogus prosecutions - unless you plan to engage in large scale massacres.
"What if the ICC prosecutor decides that Afghanistan is unable... to prosecute american 'war criminals' in Afghanistan. What are the protections against the president of the USA (for example) from being indicted under these conditions?"
Functional immunity. After end of term, jurisdiction applies. The ICC will preview prosecutions, IIRC. If the Court lets it go on, fine.
"If there are legal protections to prevent that situation (or if I've misrepresented the situation), I'd be glad to hear them."
I don't understand the obsession with the ICC, or what "protections" you want. Every country has universal jurisdiction over certain crimes like certain acts of terrorism and war crimes, genocide etc. After Bush is out of office, there is no legal protection for him from Albania to Zimbabwe.
What you are looking for is a political issue - legally, there's no argument for you against the ICC. The ICC will be a way better solution to those issues than the patchwork of national courts dealing with it, and it will have better guarantees than most. The thing you don't like is its potential territorial reach - but again, that is a political discomfort for you, not a legal issue.
Oddly enough, the ICC would not have jurisdiction over Bush's real war crime, the war of aggression against Iraq. For Afghanistan, there's nothing in it.
“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)
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