The International Criminal Court is set to begin operation when 60 nations sign on, which happened last month. The Court will open for business in The Hague next year, with jurisdiction over "international crimes" committed after July 1 of this year. ICC will become the defacto judicial arm of United Nations World Government with self-proclaimed authority to enforce United Nations policy in all nations regardless of those nations' internal form of government, which in our case means that ICC claims authority to enforce, in the United States, United Nations policies which violate our United States Constitution.

ICC supporters such as Bill Clinton say that ICC will only prosecute war crimes and other crimes against humanity. Pardon me, but BULL ****! The U.N.'s wish-list of crimes against humanity already includes driving a privately owned car which gets low gas mileage, or requiring your children to attend church with you, or not allowing your children to view pornography. Crimes against humanity is DESIGNED to cover every aspect of your life, to control your work, your family, your religion, everything you have or do, to bring you into full compliance with the Utopian vision of international social engineers, to destroy our U.S. Constitution, and to raid our economy to finance U.N. World Government.

Of immediate concern is ICC's claimed authority to arrest and try our political and military personnel.

In a U.S. Department of Defense news release on May 6, Secretary Rumsfeld said "The ICC's entry into force on July 1 means that our men and women in uniform - as well as current and future U.S. officials - could be at risk of prosecution by the ICC. We intend to make clear, in several ways, that the United States rejects the jurisdictional claims of the ICC. The United States will regard as illegitimate any attempt by the court or state parties to the treaty to assert the ICC's jurisdiction over American citizens. . . . Clearly the existence of an International Criminal Court, which attempts to claim jurisdiction over our men and women in uniform stationed around the world, will necessarily complicate U.S. military cooperation with countries that are parties to the ICC treaty - - because those countries may now incur a treaty obligation to hand over U.S. nationals to the court, even over U.S. objections. The United States would consider any such action to be illegitimate."

Unfortunately, many people in the United States do not consider such action illegitimate. There are registered Socialists in Congress and the bureaucracy, and Socialist-oriented officials such as President Clinton who signed the ICC Treaty, who are doing everything they can to destroy our Constitutional government from within and turn America into a U.N. satellite state. I personally find it amazing that retired military members of veterans organizations, the brave patriots who fought wars to preserve our Constitutional government, seem to prefer drinking at the club lounge to demonstrating in the streets against this ongoing and largely successful Trojan Horse attack on America from within.

The ICC is further proof, as if any more proof is needed, that the greatest danger to America now lies in global expansionist activity of the United Nations. U.S. Congressman Ron Paul from Texas says "World government is obviously unconstitutional. It undermines our country's sovereignty in the worst way possible. That's why I want us out of the U.N., and the U.N. itself taking a hike. After all, the U.N. is Socialist and corrupt (many votes can be bought with a 'blonde and a case of scotch,' one U.N. ambassador once said.)" Back in 1962, in an address to Congress, California Congressman Utt said "The Bible says: Unless the Lord build an house, they labor in vain who build it. There is, indeed, no evidence of the Lord's work in the United Nations."

William Jud writes from Missouri and is regular columnist for Ether Zone.

William Jud can be reached at williamjud@hotmail.com

Published in the May 20, 2002 issue of  Ether Zone.
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