Congressional Issues 2010
FOREIGN POLICY
International Criminal Court

The 112th Congress should:

• resist all attempts to put the United States under the jurisdiction of an International Criminal Court.

• International Criminal Court
• International War Crimes Tribunals: Bad For America, Bad For the World
• A Bad Omen
• Court of Injustice (Excerpt) - June 17, 2002
  While intoning platitudes about ending impunity and advancing the rule of law, advocates of the UN’s new ICC are actually establishing a global kangaroo court.
• ICC: Unsafe in Any Form - September 24, 2001
  Conservative acquiescence to a supposedly defanged ICC would be a giant step in the direction of world government.
• International Court of Criminals - July 3, 2000
  However bleak any British dungeons were for the American colonists, the plight of victims who might be brought before the proposed world court would assuredly be infinitely worse.
• Video Activism - November 23, 1998
  Two powerful new videos exposing the UN and the ICC

• The ICC: Courting Global Tyranny - August 31, 1998
  Delegates from all over the world descended upon Rome this summer to hammer out the framework for "the last global institution to be created in this century": the International Criminal Court

• Sidebar: Non-Governmental Organizations: The Pressure From Below

• International Injustice: - April 13, 1998
  The White House has joined the international chorus calling for a criminal court empowered to try "global citizens" — including Americans — for whatever the UN happens to consider criminal behavior
• Court of International Criminals - May 30, 1994
  The Senate is working quietly - and quickly - with the UN to establish an international criminal court

• The new international criminal court: rush to justice?
  Source: National Legal Center for Public Interest
  The creation of an international criminal court has American facing a dilemma: should it join its allies in this new venture or should it protect its own sovereignty and decline to take part? (7/2002)
• Bush vs. UN's International Criminal Court
  Source: American Policy Center
  President Bush did the right thing when he announced that the United States would not be a party to the United Nations' International Criminal Court (ICC). .... However, no sooner had the Bush Administration announced its intention to ignore the ICC than the waffling began." (08/05/02)
• 2009: UN's International Criminal Court indicts Bush
  Source: American Policy Center
  "A stunned former President George W. Bush sat in the docket of the United Nation's International Criminal Court listening to the charges brought against him. The year is 2009 and, among the charges, is genocide against the Iraqi people, when the US invaded Iraq to replace its leadership in 2002." (04/22/02)
• Petition opposing the International Criminal Court
  Source: The Liberty Committee
  Will the International Criminal Court enable prosecution of human rights violations, or simply compromise the sovereignty of the United States and the safety of American citizens? The Liberty Committee thinks the latter, and is sponsoring this petition that urges the Bush administration to rescind American support.
• U.S. hits back at EU on criminal court
  Source: euobserver.com
  The transatlantic row over the newly established UN International Criminal Court (ICC) has reached a new height, when a senior State Department official accused the European Union of exerting undue pressure on EU candidate countries to prevent them from signing agreements not to extradite Americans to the court. (08/14/02)
• President Bush: remove U.S. signature from UN Court treaty!
  Source: JPFO/CCOPS
  In conjunction with the American Policy Center's "Sledgehammer Alert" on the subject, Concerned Citizens Opposed to Police States (CCOPS) is urging everyone to urge President Bush to "rescind the United States' signature from the International Criminal Court treaty, and do so before April 11th!" (04/05/02)

• The Statist Ethos by Scott Trask (mises.org)
  "In Kaplan's words, 'American patriotism -- honoring the flag, July Fourth celebrations, and so on -- must survive long enough to provide the military armature for an emerging global civilization that may eventually make such patriotism obsolete.' Kaplan has in mind such institutions as the International Criminal Court at the Hague, which he describes as the entering wedge for world government: 'The court (along with other supranational authorities) is only the start of a process to create an international Leviathan.'"

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