Bushco slips past International Criminal Court...

[dutchdemocrat]

Yea... great. Nothing happens when slaughter goes down. These countries were forced into this I am sure.

Amnesty for U.S. citizens boosted

By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


NEW YORK — The Bush administration has negotiated agreements protecting Americans from prosecution by the International Criminal Court with more than five dozen nations, knitting together a partial shield to protect U.S. citizens from politically motivated prosecutions.
As of this week, 68 governments have signed treaties with the United States promising not to surrender American soldiers, lawmakers or civilians to the court's jurisdiction. About half of these countries are parties to the ICC.
The so-called Article 98 agreements have outraged legal analysts who support the ICC. The pacts also have created rifts in the European Union; some governments in the bloc would like to sign them but cannot because of a negotiated common position in support of the court.
So sensitive is the issue in some countries that more than a dozen governments, including those of Egypt, Nigeria and Pakistan, have signed agreements but declined to announce that to their publics.
Other countries that signed such pacts in confidence include Kuwait, Morocco and Bangladesh, U.S. officials told The Washington Times.
The officials say the bilateral agreements are not an ironclad protection for U.S. citizens but are the best the Bush administration can do right now.

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20031008-113708-1189r.htm

[sweetheart]

1. Groat balls o'fire

What are you saying? The article is typical empire elitism... NO soldier of ROME may be tried for war crimes in the conquored states. Its a sad state of affairs indeed by the nazi racist scumbags in the whitehouse... and i'm sicked by their behaviour daily, like the dry heave on picking up a really stinky dog poop in a kleenex. (sometimes doggie poop scoop bags are forgotten ;-))

The behaviour speaks nothing to a liberal. I doubt theres a single person in the DU that would condone this behaviour. Sadly, it really is the liberal heart that has the depth to feel deeply sad at criminal treason and mass murder as a government.

There was a coup in 2000... long in the rising. The state USA no longer exists... the new country is "God bless america" GBA. All democratic elections have been suspended for media scams and public re-education media blasting 24 hours a day on every screen in the nation. Totally disengenuous and foul people mouth ignorance across every american television screen for 4.5 hours a day in every "GBA" subject's life. I say "subject" as citizen is so out-of-date in the GBA... that implies rights... and GOD does not permit that. God already knows what democracy would do, so it has been suspended while a new media brainwashing system is tested on american televisions.

If a european critique is to be levelled, it is not at the american people, but at the GBA and its coup-leaders... like robert mugabe and hitler... people that really should be in prison. THe bush criminals are really really evil and they will stop at nothing to stay out of prison... because they know what the crime for mass murder is having ignored so many death row appeals.

A european critique must be in the humility that nobody who feels sickened by this article has any power to change it. Only god can change it.

[dutchdemocrat]

2. That's exactly what I think

I posted it like a news piece. Looking back on edit... it does look like I condoned it. Apologies. I feel a bit stupid. It is morning here. Must get a coffee in me before posting stuff.

[gemini_liberal]

3. WTF?!!

That's it, I am gonna become an American citizen and then I'll have my own get out of jail free card to do whatever I want with.

It's not because it's about the Americans that this is an outrage, no it is because it has elevated one group of people over humanity.

Sigh...these are very troubling times