Bam! Another day, another corrupt globalist institution in President Donald Trump’s sights. This time it’s the corrupt, institutionally anti-Semitic ICC.
The US has never been a signatory to the ICC’s ‘Rome Statute’ for the very good reason that doing so would have made Americans subject to a foreign power for the first time since 1776.
The ICC was founded by a virulent Pakistani Muslim anti-Semite who opposed Israel’s creation and continued existence for his entire career. His godson and ideological protege chairs it today. The ICC created dodgy new definitions of ‘war crimes’ – such as voluntary relocations of populations – specifically to target Israel.
Speed the day this disgusting globalist institution suffocates and dies – which may not be too far away, thanks to President Trump.
President Trump will on Thursday afternoon sign an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court, White House officials have said.
During a speech in the Rose Garden on Wednesday at a press conference with Kenyan President William Ruto, Biden reiterated that the US “made our position clear on the ICC … we don’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC, the way it’s being exercised, and it’s that simple.”
Many African nations bitterly oppose the ICC as well, claiming that they are unfairly punished while criminal regimes elsewhere in the world get off scot-free. Trump first sanctioned the ICC in 2020, but that was hurriedly overturned by Joe Biden. The ICC’s conduct since October 7 – denigrating Israel while ignoring the grotesque brutalities of Hamas – only makes the return of sanctions more pressing.
Some experts have questioned the value of the court, given its track record since its founding.
“[The ICC] has been around for over two decades, [but] it has less than 10 successful prosecutions,” Orde Kittrie, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and law professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, told Fox News Digital. “It’s spent over $2 billion. It’s been really ineffective.”
What difference will that make, though, if the US isn’t a signatory and hence doesn’t contribute any funds? Well, the US might not fund it, but many of its allies do. As Trump showed, with NATO in his first term and now with Canada and Mexico in his second: when America talks, its allies listen.
The ICC’s total annual budget for 2023 totaled around $183,500,000, which is an increase of around $34,500,000 or around 20% increase from 2022’s budget […]
This makes any sanctions against the organization a potentially crippling measure.
The order President Trump signs will include both financial sanctions and visa restrictions against ICC officials and their families if they were part of probes that targeted the US or its allies (like Israel).
I’ll give you a really broadbrush example of how a sanction could work in practice: say you work as a prosecutor for the ICC, and you expect your salary to be paid into a bank account each month. Well, a US sanction could stop that happening.
That’s because the banks that pay you may be based in the US or have links to the US.
The ICC paid some staff three months advance salary, to try and circumvent sanctions. Good luck with checking their bank balance, though, when they can’t use their computer.
Let’s say the ICC have a licence agreement with the US-based company Microsoft to use their software (things even you may use every day, like Windows, the email program Outlook, and then admin tools like Excel and Word, blahdy blah the list goes on). Well, that would have to stop as part of the sanctions. And that’s just ONE example. Sanctions would affect most, if not all, aspects of how the ICC operates.
It would certainly make life very difficult for the ICC.
Good.
If sanctions fail, and, if say, woke womble Christopher Luxon actually arrests any Israelis and turns them over to the ICC, there’s an even more direct measure the US can take.
Simply send the marines to take them back.
President Clinton signed the statute in 2000, but he demanded that the eventual ICC should address “fundamental concerns” before he or any other US president considered putting the statute before the US Senate for ratification. The Bush administration took it a step further, withdrawing the US signature and instead adopting the American Servicemembers Protection Act.
Also known as the “Hague Invasion Act,” the law allows the president to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release” of US or allied citizens detained or imprisoned by the ICC.
Wouldn’t that send the leeches and bullies of the globalist establishment shrieking and running for cover?
