UK Being Referred To International Criminal Court Is "One Small Step" For Humankind
By Robert Barsocchini
04 June, 2014
Countercurrents.org
The UK being referred to the International Criminal Court is a positive step for the international community.
Traditionally, the international "legal" system has been run by the white, barbarian hordes that expanded out from Western Europe, murdered those in their way, and conquered the majority of the globe.
The white colonizers are currently most heavily barricaded and headquartered in areas they call Europe, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, and many others, from which they continue to expand and plunder to increase their ill-gotten riches.
Thus, the international legal system, being dominated by white hordes and in chief by a group calling itself "US", largely reflects the legal system within US itself: humans of darker skin complexion are the focus of group violence and persecution, while humans of lighter complexion are persecuted to an incomparably lesser degree for incomparably worse and incomparably more frequent crimes.
Africans, both under the US-dominated global system and the US internal system, are the chief "whipping boy", or scapegoat, of the white barbarians.
In short, the international system, for being a reflection of the USA's internal system and values, has been highly race-based, or "racist".
The mere referral of members of a non-African (let alone Western European barbarian) group to the ICC is a positive step, and must be pursued to the fullest degree.
However, it must also be remembered that the step is small.
It was barbarian horde sect "US", not "UK", that led the illegal invasion of Iraq. Legally, Bush, his regime members, and the subsequent Obama regime members, would be sent to the gallows for perpetrating and carrying out the crime. (I personally believe this law should be opposed and changed. I take the position of all human rights organizations in opposing the death penalty. Bush, his regime, and Obama and his regime must spend the rest of their lives in prison, as must all regime leaders who participated in the supreme international crime of the illegal war of aggression against Iraq.)
In this unprecedented instance of UK barbarians being referred to the ICC, individuals would be prosecuted for specific atrocities they committed on Iraq's sovereign territory, such as torture and murder.
While this type of prosecution should, of course, occur, the main charge is being overlooked. The invasion itself was the biggest crime. Anything done in Iraq after that, or caused by the invasion and destabilization it wrought, is also, legally, part of the crime.
War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. –Justice Robert Jackson, Nuremberg Tribunal
As for the act of invasion, there need be no investigation. Bush, Blair, and a few other dictators, invaded Iraq. Other dictators, such as Obama, subsequently participated in the murder and looting spree, like fellow gang members taking over a gang beating once their partners tired.
For the international system to have any credibility, these people and their collaborators must all be imprisoned, now, and for the rest of their lives, instead of being allowed to live off the riches they've accumulated during their criminal endeavors.
Final note:
The USA has been convicted of aggression at the International Court of Justice (different than the International Criminal Court) for aggression against Nicaragua:
The Contras were a terrorist army, sponsored, armed and trained by the USA at the US terrorist training camp, the notorious “School of the Americas”.
The goal of the USA’s terrorism campaign against Nicaragua was to overthrow the popular Sandinista government, which had been praised more highly by Oxfam than any other of the seventy three developing countries on which Oxfam reported, for its efforts to improve the lives of the Nicaraguan people. The USA wanted to reinstall the US-backed Somoza dictatorship, which functioned as a cash-machine for US plutocrats, offering them cheap resources and labor while devastating the population. (More info.)
Nicaragua complained to the International Court of Justice about the USA’s terrorism. The court ruled in favor of Nicaragua and demanded the US pay approximately $18 billion in reparations for its crimes. The US refused, and instead escalated its terrorism and atrocities against Nicaragua, and vetoed, alone, multiple UN resolutions condemning US criminal acts against the much weaker country, Nicaragua, which was trying to develop and help its people.
While the USA was convicted by the highest court in the world, it used its violence power and predilection for amorality to make sure its criminals would go unpunished and that their crimes would escalate, not only against Nicaragua but the world in general.
Robert Barsocchini is an historical researcher, investigative journalist, and writer for the film industry.
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