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Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/worldnews@aussie.zone
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This is bloody shocking. Not only dismantling and manipulating law institutions in the US, and Netanyahu trying the same in Israel, now this.

β€œIt is not the ICC that Rubio is dismantling brick by brick – but the rules-based international order that grew out of the ashes of world war two.”

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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I wonder why a bunch of conservative yanks would want that..?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    The article explains it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, no shit

    I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I've been surprised at how many times people comment but don't actually read the article. No need for the aggro.

    And not all conservatives would want the ICC to be dismantled. Trump's brand of 'conservatism' is not considered to be what many Republicans would have honoured in the past. They have now been trapped to the point they don't move because they are afraid of Trump finding the way to get rid of them (as has already happened).

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    • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    USA: "Please allow us to commit war crimes on your sovereign territory"

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (10 children)

    I guess you're in the US. Please do all you can to stop the war from continuing.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    So what do you mean by

    how do we stop other countries coming after us for fucking up the world energy.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Yes, I am aware. Without punctuation, however, a statement can become ambivalent. In recent years, punctuation has been disappearing perhaps due to social media and other fast online use. The way my generation writes is influenced by the way we were taught which was more formal. Commas were encouraged everywhere (but not Commies).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    What are you really angry about?

    You reckon I'm policing the language? That is your judgement. Are you persecuting me for using language in a particular way? Isn't that what you were saying I do? Crikey, you were talking about a 'literary device'. Wasn't that a bit, I don't know, patronising?

    I was making a bit of fun at the way we were taught.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't America pretty much off limits for the ICC anyway? For some reason I was thinking that was like, part of the charter?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    The US isn't a signatory to the Rome Statute.

    From the article linked in the post:

    The international court, headquartered in The Hague, can only investigate crimes committed in states that are party to the Rome statute, the 2002 treaty that established the ICC. The United States has not ratified the treaty, nor has the court opened investigations into crimes committed on American soil.

    The US also has a law known as the 'Hague Invasion Act':

    The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court"[3] (ICC), located in The Hague, Netherlands.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    More individuals are gonna get arbitrarily sanctioned by the US Government.

    Last time I checked they sanctioned 11 ICC officials over their feelings.

    Make your escape plans from Visa, Outlook, WhatsApp, Apple, Mastercard, Windows, Facebook, Android and PayPal now before they cut you off.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Not surprising, from him or the nation itself.

    They don’t respect it anyway.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    No worry's ,he's on a list

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