US calls for a Netherlands Invasion Clause

[Saint Marcus]

If an American should ever appear in front of the International Criminal Court, the American governement may use military force to get that person out of there.

The media (Le Monde for one) label this the "Netherlands Invasion Clause".

In other words:

If:

- An American ever blatently violate human rights.
- And is stupid enough to get caught in a country that has signed the ICC treaty.

Then:

- The US may use military force to get that human rights violater out
- thus invading a souvereign nation that is a formal ally of the USA.


This obviously show how much the US values NATO and the UN. This also shows how much the US values human rights. And this shows the hypocracy of the US that puts Slobo on trial before The Hague, but won't allow it's own citizens to be subject to the same.

The UN was about to give in, but then Britain, France and also China (who didn't sign the treaty either) put their foot down. Nice to know who your friends are, seems China likes us more than the USA.

[Saint Marcus]

http://www.vocri.org/03292002/closer.html

Other proposals would authorize the use of force to free an American from the court, dubbed by Europeans as the "The Hague invasion clause."

[Eli]

This court is a tool of harrasing countries on political background and used only against the weak and unpopular.

[Saint Marcus]

afraid you might get arrested Eli?

[The Mad Monk]

I like your avatar.

A befuddled garlic bulb seems very appropriate, somehow.

[VetLegion]

Slobo is there for a good reason.

And USA is hypocrites I admit.

But this court is a political tool... if there was such a thing as 'impartial justice' why would election of judges in supreme courts in all countries be such a political event?

So will it be in the international court too, big struggle about judge positions and lots of political games behind the scenes. Not just justice at work.

I would like everyone to sign it though. In time, it may evolve to a really cool institution, and once everyone in every corner of the planet knows about it, it may lead to decrease of war crimes (if not wars)

[Urban Ranger]

US.

We know what the US think of international treaties; they are only good to use against other countries.

[Tom201]

Ha! Thats just all their plan on their war on drugs! They gonna smuggel some human rights violater right in ... and than ... BOOOM. Its all a conspiracy!

[Saint Marcus]

It's all bluff of course, the US is totally powerles to get a warcriminal out of The Hague by force, unless it wants to trigger WW3.

[chequita guevara]

The US would never use force to remove soeone from the Hague. That would spell the end of NATO, which we find more important.

[Saint Marcus]

Tell that to Jesse Helms and Shrubya.

[faded glory]

Sure, the SEALS could do it and you wouldnt even know till the next day.

I agree, the court is political. People actually want to arrest pilots for errant bombs, how stupid. If we wish not to participate, then you cant touch us.

[Kyle]

First, I think Helms is retiring. Second, it's simply another case of you overreacting. This was a proposal by some people in Congress. There's nothing in that article that states this as US policy.

[chequita guevara]

FG, it's not that we couldn't do it. It's that we wouldn't do it. Sure, we might get our rocks off rescuing some mass murderer like Kissinger from the court's clutches, but we'd soon be crying alone as we were booted out of NATO for launching a military operation against a NATO member.

[faded glory]

Kissiner isnt a war criminal. What proof does anyone he did anything wrong? They have the chance to arrest him in UK, UK delined sighting poor evidence.