The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002, to ensure Trump and his administration’s top officials are never prosecuted, Reuters reports, citing a Trump administration official.
U.S. officials are also demanding that the ICC drop its investigations into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over charges related to Gaza, as well as a probe into potential war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
These demands have been made known to the court by the U.S. government, Reuters reports.
“There is growing concern … that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump administration official told Reuters. “That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
I’m not sure which is more delusional, thinking that this would actually work or thinking that anyone affiliated with the United States (or the West in general) is ever going to be prosecuted by the ICC.
These men have succeeded for centuries (possibly millennia) by preemptively creating the reality they want people to perceive through action, and then just pretending the reality they created is the truth. By acting their preemptive reality, (essentially being the change they wish to see in a really fucked up kind of way, and creating the fucked up world they want to live in), they have created their own success and the history leading up to this point, leaving us to study the pieces of fiction they used to destroy. I think this may be one of the rare cases where we could stand to take a page from their book (except the reality we create will remain fact based).
It really doesn’t matter that these men want us to believe they have special snowflake status that places them above the law, in addition to not caring that we know they’re also terrorists and war criminals.
They committed cold blooded murder of innocent civilians. The families of these civilians are already suing on behalf of their deceased loved ones. There are witnesses who will testify that the secretary of war demanded a second strike be sent to kill every innocent civilian still clinging to pieces of their destroyed boat in order to leave no survivors. There are survivors from follow up attacks who weren’t even arrested, because they had never committed any crime in the first place.
These men are a threat to civilization, and we cannot allow them to destroy what we have worked so hard to build. The citizens of the United States and the citizens of the world demand justice, for our individual self preservation and the preservation of all civil society. We demand these men are held accountable for their crimes against humanity.
Right. If people like Ronnie Raygun and Cheney and W weren’t, it ain’t gonna happen.