International Criminal Court Hypocrisy and Mendacity
ICC Hypocrisy and Mendacity
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“The
International Criminal Court allegedly issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on Friday, supposedly for
trafficking children from Ukraine
to Russia.
However, since neither Ukraine
nor Russia are members of
the ICC (neither are the US,
Israel or China, incidentally), it is entirely performative and means
nothing. In fact, doing so on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion was likely designed
to prompt very intense discussion on Western hypocrisy.” https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/20/this-week-in-the-new-normal-58/
The
insanity escalates and is growing like a malignant cancer. On March 17, 2023
the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for allegedly
transporting Ukrainian children to Russia. A news release regarding
the warrants states, “Today, 17 March
2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’ or ‘the
Court’) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the
situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna
Lvova-Belova. Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952,
President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime
of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer
of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian
Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute).
The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least
from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that
Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned
crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or
through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his
failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates
who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his
effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article
28(b) of the Rome Statute).” https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
As an observer one who seeks truth
amidst the deceit, lies and propaganda the International Criminal Court is at
best a sham. First of all the International Criminal Court does not represent
all the nations in the world. Only one hundred and twenty-three nations are
signatures and participate in the ICC which is located in The
Hague in the Netherlands.
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties Ukraine,
Russia, Israel, the United
States nor China are members of the ICC.
The recent action by the ICC may
not even be legal because according to the ICC’s Website a nation that is a
participant can be referred to the ICC for prosecution, “The ICC is only competent to hear a case if: the country
where the offence was committed is a party to the Rome Statute; or the
perpetrator's country of origin is a party to the Rome Statute. The ICC may
only exercise its jurisdiction if the national court is unable or unwilling to
do so. The ICC only has jurisdiction over offences committed after the
Statute’s entry into force on 1 July 2002.” https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court This is why the US has never been referred to
the ICC for its numerous crimes against humanity, it is not a member of the
ICC!
A nation
or case may also be referred to the ICC according to the ICC’s Website in these
situations: “Various parties have the right to refer a case to the ICC: any
State Party to the Rome Statute, irrespective of any involvement in the alleged
offence; the Prosecutor of the ICC; the United Nations Security Council.” https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court-i
Why am I
sharing this? Because the ICC warrant is meaningless since neither Ukraine nor Russia are signatures to the treaty
that created the ICC! This is pure theater, hokum, it is Western propaganda designed
to inflame public sentiment against Russia. In my opinion this propaganda
stunt is comparable to the PR campaign run by Hill and Knowlton that told the lie
Saddam Hussein’s army smashed babies’ heads who were in Kuwaiti incubators in a
hospital natal ward! https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html
It’s the same psychological con game. Don’t
fall for the okey-doke!
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