"Bush must be thinkin' of committing crimes against humanity ... I guess."

That was rory's answer to the question someone posed to me over a cup of coffee a few years back when Bush decided to back out of participation in and avoid the reach of the International Criminal Court that has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. rory made one of those cynical statements that back in the day he maybe only half believed when he said it 'cause it just seemed too fucked up.



oh, fuckin' A georgie porgie.

Here's a little bit about the Court, from Human Rights Watch:

[roryz note: Note that Iraq (i.e. Iraq under Saddam), Israel, and the United States were among the tiny minority that refused to sign on. Again, why the fuck would you refuse to submit to a tribunal of laws from which you have nothing to fear unless you commit crimes against humanity, genocide, or war crimes? Bingo! I think we all know the frickin' answer, now, don't we? And it ain't no joke. No cynical throwaway comment. Just the truth revealed by that history makin' pseudo-cowboy in the frickin' whitehouse, his former asshole buddy saddam, and his current asshole buddy, Ehud Olmert.]

okay, so HERE'S that little bit from Human Rights Watch:

"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history, the international community adopted a treaty creating the world's first independent and permanent International Criminal Court. That court is now a reality. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is able to investigate and prosecute those individuals accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, and crimes of war. The ICC complements existing national judicial systems and will step in only if national courts are unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute such crimes. The ICC will also help defend the rights of those, such as women and children, who have often had little recourse to justice.

The Statute outlining the creation of the court was adopted at an international conference in Rome on July 17, 1998. After 5 weeks of intense negotiations, 120 countries voted to adopt the treaty. Only seven countries voted against it (including China, Israel, Iraq, and the United States) and 21 abstained. 139 states signed the treaty by the 31 December 2000 deadline. 66 countries — 6 more than the threshold needed to establish the court — ratified the treaty on 11 April 2002. This meant that the ICC's jurisdiction commenced on July 1, 2002. From February 3 - 7, 2003, the court's Assembly of States Parties — the ICC's governing body — elected the court's first 18 judges. The resulting high quality and diverse judicial bench (the judges include 7 women and represent all the regions of the world) were sworn into office on March 11 in The Hague, the seat of the court. On April 21, 2003, the Assembly of States Parties elected the chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, best known for his role as deputy prosecutor in the trials of Argentina's former military junta in the 1980s."

well, fuckit, who needs a stinkin' human rights tribunal when you've got "fundamental american morals" to guide you, to quote dub, or in other cases, such as that of Ehud the Executioner, "fundamental israeli morals?"



recall that the smarmy, sanctimonious killer-klown-in-chief recently spoke about "fundamental american morals" when he speechified and photo-opped with former blastulas at the white house to celebrate his courageous veto of stem cell research. Here's a little bit of the speech of which he is right fuckin' proud and a picture of him holding up a former cell clump, also known as a child, to some, and to still others as an ex-blastula.

w holds up a former blastula:



w: waxes sanctimonious about former blastulas:

"These boys and girls are not spare parts. (Applause.) They remind us of what is lost when embryos are destroyed in the name of research. They remind us that we all begin our lives as a small collection of cells. And they remind us that in our zeal for new treatments and cures, America must never abandon our fundamental morals," w said.

dub, was this child no better than a "spare part?"



dub, does this remind you of what is lost when an embryo is destroyed in the name of research?



dub, does this remind you that you began his life as a small collection of cells?



dub, does this remind you that must never abandon your fundamental values?



guess what you insincere, sanctimonious peckerhead? children are wise in simple ways sometimes. this one speaks for all the children of the world. this one has both sensed and revealed the vile spirit of the heartless war criminal. this one has SEEN you and reminded us of what has been lost, what has been destroyed, by you in your zeal with your fucking fundamental values:



and by the way dub, you ain't the first to believe that you could sow the seeds of death and never face judgment before an international tribunal, are you now?




president peckerwood’s sanctimonious stem cell speech

human rights watch on international criminal court