• kromem@lemmy.world
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      They don’t mean in terms of aid.

      The US has refused to submit themselves or their soldiers to international criminal law for a long time now, for plenty of other reasons.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    The US is not a signatory to the ICC, is it?

    In fact, I believe the planned response to such an arrest is to actually storm the Hague and retrieve the American.

    Point is, I don’t think the US government is too worried about it.

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      They are worried about their holidays in the countries who apply ICC juridiction (a lot of good holidays places…). Can you imagine ? The audacity of ruining my holidays because i did (or supported by providing weapons, veto, etc) a little genocide ! Poor me, bad ICC.

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      neither is israel… the ICC decided that it has jurisdiction if a crime was committed in a country(area? because palestine is a signatory but not a country) that is a signatory

      so it’s charged israelis because palestine is a signatory

      afghanistan is also a signatory, so AFAIK the ICC believes it has jurisdiction to charge US citizens for any war crimes that may have occurred during… that… whole… thing

      the US disagrees of course, but IDK it kinda makes sense. if you assasinate someone in, say, the UK and then flee to… like… Russia for example <_< then the UK isn’t just going to say well i guess they’re Russian so we don’t have jurisdiction

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    Except the U.S. is not a party to the ICC and therefore not subject to its jurisdiction. It should be, but it’s not. This is bullshit fear-mongering over something that literally cannot happen, in order to distract people from the thing that will and should be happening.

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    Ya know what, I think I am ok with punishing people leading war crime efforts. I sure do wonder what the party of “tough on crime” thinks about the on going genocide?

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      They’re coveres by one of the commandments of their lord and saviour:

      “Rules for thee, but not for me” — Supply Side Jesus

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      I wonder what mister crime bill, lock the S.O.B up, thinks of it… Oh wait I don’t have to wonder he just told us!

      In 1989 […] Mr. Biden lamented that the Republican president, George H. W. Bush, was not doing enough to put “violent thugs” in prison. In 1993, he warned of “predators on our streets.” And in a 1994 Senate floor speech, he likened himself to another Republican president: “Every time Richard Nixon, when he was running in 1972, would say, ‘Law and order,’ the Democratic match or response was, ‘Law and order with justice’ — whatever that meant. And I would say, ‘Lock the S.O.B.s up.’”

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          They do, it’s a monetary value. 200,000 dead Palestinians = Lockheed Martin line go up.

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            As seen on TV, until used on the press.

            9 out of 10 fascists choose Lockheed Martin to cleanse their regions of targeted scapegoats and the media.

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    So basically the US government is a gigantic Trump - rising up in self-righteous fury at the very idea that anyone might dare to charge them for the crimes they’ve brazenly committed.

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    There would be a lot of war crimes the USA can be charged for, retroactively. I think this is not just about Israel.

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    What’s this “we” business. I haven’t committed any warcrimes but I would like anyone who commits them in my name to face justice.

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    Ok, can we take the CIA to court? There are a couple of executives in old folks homes that arguably deserve to be rolled into an active volcano.