Comments on: The International Criminal Court Vs The Lords Resistance Army

By: NahnCee

NahnCee — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:57:05 +0000

“I still don’t think that international law has been properly defined and therefore has no teeth.”

The international court has no system of enforcement. There is no way the ICC could have gone into Iraq, for example, extracted Saddam and tried him.

With the pirates in Somalia prancing about untouched in ways that would make Johnny Depp cry with envy, we currently have no definition of law, nor any way of enforcing that law. Or I should say “they” since America has a lot of very good laws and lots and lots of ways of enforcing them, from freezing bank accounts to kidnapping and rendition to nuking the SOBs.

By: NahnCee

NahnCee — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:52:28 +0000

I wish someone would give me some markers to look for regarding how we will know when Mexico has, finally, officially collapsed.

By: veracious

veracious — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:03:12 +0000

As some, like UtopiaP allude to, the ICC is only powerless in enforcing _real_ law on _real_ criminals. I must state that for the BC record, that ICC will in time be found to be very good at enforcing politics upon non-criminals, e.g., US citizens and other lawful entities. …wait for it…

By: 3Case

3Case — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:16:35 +0000

…it’s a debate club. They’re full of themselves, and cause harm to the world with throwing around their pretensions and confusing the matter as to who is in charge.

Simply put, they get themselves paid…handsomely, I am sure…plus benefits, pensions and junkets with whatever they can set up on the side for the more clever; think Kojo Annan. They are part of the Euro-monarcho-imperialist post-monarchist elite doing all they can to retain position and power not quite 100 years after their system died. They are attempting to do it as they have always, on the backs and at the expense of everyone who is not them.

By: weSwinger

weSwinger — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:42:53 +0000

Late to the party again but anyway – w. is correct in the Jessep example: This is one place where the character took over, the writers really got inside the character, and along with bad Jack’s acting gave us a very sympathetic “man in full”.

Given the superficial politics of the rest of the story, this performance stands out – we can imagine what might happen if a recruit got promoted along for some inane political reason and while being encouraged to quit, the worst happens. . . the writers are sympathetic to the fact that a military leader may be required to balance mutually exclusive interests. His political bosses just may be insane.

There is going to be a lot more of that happening under the new administration, as Doug above will certainly attest to.

By: houston criminal attorney

houston criminal attorney — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:35:29 +0000

I still don’t think that international law has been properly defined and therefore has no teeth.

By: Steynian 309 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 309 « Free Canuckistan! — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:41:54 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:21:10 +0000

“Temperatures at the time of the crash in the city were just about 20 degrees, with the water temperature likely much colder.”
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If that’s not enough proof for ya that we got Global Warming, well then, I just don’t know.

By: Big D

Big D — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:51:04 +0000

I will note that Jessup’s real crime was *not* the murder of Santiago… Santiago’s death was an accident, and Jessup was *at worst* guilty of negligent homicide. If he had been honorable, he would have been allowed to retire quietly, with the whole thing hushed up as an accident.

However… what Jessup did was to actively cover up the whole thing in order to preserve his career. He forced a pair of Marines–HIS OWN MEN–to face the prospect of the death penalty to protect HIS sorry hide. THAT is Jessup’s true crime, his true dishonor. I truly wish that the movie had actually pointed that out, because it seemed so obvious in watching it what Jessup had done wrong.

And it is strikingly similar to what we see at the international level, where the perfumed princes will gladly allow thousands, even millions, to die, so that they can continue to pretend that they are the champions of justice and the common man.

By: Peter Boston

Peter Boston — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:11:12 +0000

The Eurps are sissies for a couple reasons. The horrendous wars of the 20th Century had to leave the survivors with the belief that almost anything, if not everything, is better than going through that again. Reason Two is that the Manliness Gene was knocked out of the European Genome by the loss of so many soldiers.

That leaves the sissies who get to justify their actions by invoking Reason One. You can’t hurt sending somebody a subpoena.

There is no way the sissies can stand up to the Mohammedans who are not afraid to display some testosterone when it suits their purpose. Heck, the sissies admire them because they know they can never be like them.