US sanctions International Criminal Court officials

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54003527

The US has imposed sanctions on senior officials in the International Criminal Court (ICC), including chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the court of "illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction".

The Hague-based ICC is currently investigating whether US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

I think this is one of the worst things that the US has done under Trump, it just tarnishes the use of sanctions by the US, and sets a precedent for countries like China to follow suit with international bodies they don't agree with.

[Washington Resistance Army]

This isn't really a Trump specific thing tbf. The Bomb The Hague Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. We as a nation pretty openly don't care for international law.

[Ideal Britain]

Isn’t Afghanistan party to the ICC statute? If so war crimes committed in Afghanistan come under the jurisdiction of the ICC.

[Agarntrop]

Shitty regime does shitty thing, wow what a suprise.

[New yugoslavaia]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.
Remember when that UK teen got run over by some Murican women and she never got prosecuted?

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

This isn't really a Trump specific thing tbf. The Bomb The Hague Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. We as a nation pretty openly don't care for international law.

We probably should start caring tho.

[Dakran]

This isn't really a Trump specific thing tbf. The Bomb The Hague Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. We as a nation pretty openly don't care for international law.

Which itself is pretty god damn stupid. It boggles my mind how we try to be world police, and then refuse to abide by international law. It genuinely makes no sense.

[Agarntrop]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.
Remember when that UK teen got run over by some Murican women and she never got prosecuted?

Worse still, the American government actively helped her evade justice and tried to bribe the teen's family.

And people wonder why the US is one of the world's most hated countries

[Greed and Death]

This isn't really a Trump specific thing tbf. The Bomb The Hague Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. We as a nation pretty openly don't care for international law.

Which itself is pretty god damn stupid. It boggles my mind how we try to be world police, and then refuse to abide by international law. It genuinely makes no sense.

Police need immunity. The world Police needs global immunity. Simple really.

[Washington Resistance Army]

This isn't really a Trump specific thing tbf. The Bomb The Hague Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. We as a nation pretty openly don't care for international law.

We probably should start caring tho.

Disagree. International law is a meme used to push around and bully smaller nations, nothing more.

[New yugoslavaia]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.
Remember when that UK teen got run over by some Murican women and she never got prosecuted?

Worse still, the American government actively helped her evade justice and tried to bribe the teen's family.

And people wonder why the US is one of the world's most hated countries

TBF, they are better than that other that's coming very close to dominating the world stage.

You know the one.

[Greed and Death]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.
Remember when that UK teen got run over by some Murican women and she never got prosecuted?

Not just some American she had diplomatic immunity. She didn't run over someone it was a collision he was on a motorbike. The kids fault really he was driving on the left side of the road.

I mean seriously who drives on the left side of the road ?

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Well I doubt that will stop the court investigating. But it might make some witnesses refuse to appear.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Which itself is pretty god damn stupid. It boggles my mind how we try to be world police, and then refuse to abide by international law. It genuinely makes no sense.

Police need immunity. The world Police needs global immunity. Simple really.

"Police need immunity" makes no sense to me. Why shouldn't police on-duty be charged for crimes they commit?

The US isn't the world police either. More like a drug addict who puts on a police uniform when he needs to go mug someone to buy more crack. "Don't fight back sir or I'll use my immunity on you"

[Picairn]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.

If you don't have a bigger stick to enforce the rules then you'll get nothing. The US is literally an impenetrable fortress against invasion and nothing can make it change its ways.

[Cameroi]

not only is the u.s. not 'in the right', this is a hostile criminal act against all of humanity. for which donald trump should be halled before the hage to face war crimes.
for a world to be fair it needs to be impartial, and being impartial means finding some what to stop giving a free pass to the power of brute force.
i see no difference between donald chump and sadam insane.

[Greed and Death]

Police need immunity. The world Police needs global immunity. Simple really.

"Police need immunity" makes no sense to me. Why shouldn't police on-duty be charged for crimes they commit?

The US isn't the world police either. More like a drug addict who puts on a police uniform when he needs to go mug someone to buy more crack. "Don't fight back sir or I'll use my immunity on you"

Because it is not a crime when the police do it.

No we mug countries for oil. Pray we do not find oil in your country friend.

[Ifreann]

Not a good look to be mad at people investigating you.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.

If you don't have a bigger stick to enforce the rules then you'll get nothing. The US is literally an impenetrable fortress against invasion and nothing can make it change its ways.

Well something could, but luckily the Soviets chose not to show you what coming second in a nuclear exchange looks like.

[New yugoslavaia]

Why are they acting like Americans aren't subject to jurisdiction? It's called the International Criminal Court, not the Every Continent and Region with the Exception of North American Criminal Court.

What a bunch of self-entitled twits.
Remember when that UK teen got run over by some Murican women and she never got prosecuted?

Not just some American she had diplomatic immunity. She didn't run over someone it was a collision he was on a motorbike. The kids fault really he was driving on the left side of the road.

I mean seriously who drives on the left side of the road ?

Who drives on the right side of the road?

[Greed and Death]

If you don't have a bigger stick to enforce the rules then you'll get nothing. The US is literally an impenetrable fortress against invasion and nothing can make it change its ways.

Well something could, but luckily the Soviets chose not to show you what coming second in a nuclear exchange looks like.

We likely could have won most of Soviet's nukes were ranged for Western Europe.

[Greed and Death]

Not just some American she had diplomatic immunity. She didn't run over someone it was a collision he was on a motorbike. The kids fault really he was driving on the left side of the road.

I mean seriously who drives on the left side of the road ?

Who drives on the right side of the road?

Most of the world.

[Picairn]

Well something could, but luckily the Soviets chose not to show you what coming second in a nuclear exchange looks like.

A nuclear exchange doesn't have first or second, only last.

But still, they died in 1991 and we have been living in Pax Americana since.

[New yugoslavaia]

Who drives on the right side of the road?

Most of the world.

Well Britain isn't most of the world, now is it mate?

[Nobel Hobos 2]

"Police need immunity" makes no sense to me. Why shouldn't police on-duty be charged for crimes they commit?

The US isn't the world police either. More like a drug addict who puts on a police uniform when he needs to go mug someone to buy more crack. "Don't fight back sir or I'll use my immunity on you"

Because it is not a crime when the police do it.

No we mug countries for oil. Pray we do not find oil in your country friend.

No oil here, kind American gentleman. New Zealand. New Zealand has all the oil. It's slightly closer too.

A crime should still be a crime when the police do it. Actually, let's make being police an aggravating factor to the crime.