David Hoile writes for American Greatness about one international group that deserves a swift end.
The Trump administration’s recent declaration of war on the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a welcome advancement toward the rule of law. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s critique of the ICC is on target and should be shared by anyone who has monitored the activities of this court over the years.
The ICC is fruit of the poisonous tree. The “court” is a creature of both the European Union—by way of conception or adoption and funding—and of unaccountable (and largely EU-funded) international and national non-governmental organizations, which, amongst other things, vet judicial candidates for the ICC bench.
Following the money is easy. The court is inextricably tied to EU countries, which provide up to 70 percent of its funding, making it a less-than-subtle instrument of European foreign policy. He who pays the piper really does call the tune.
The reality is that the ICC, which opened its doors in 2002, has emerged as a sham court peddling ersatz international law. It is not the international court (China, Russia, the United States, India, Pakistan, and Indonesia are just some of the many countries that remain outside of the court’s jurisdiction).
It isn’t even a real court, as we will see below. Secretary Rubio is right to say it is an intolerable threat to sovereignty. It forms part of the architecture of power, together with other “international tribunals,” designed by the political left to short-circuit national sovereignty and bypass democratic domestic legislatures in pursuit of an unaccountable Woke “internationalism.”
The ICC, together with its ideological sibling, the European Court of Human Rights, is also part and parcel of the lawfare aimed at emasculating Anglosphere armed forces, most notably in Britain and Australia, peeling away America’s most trusted and enduring allies.
Federal law repudiates ICC jurisdiction over any American citizen anywhere in the world and authorizes the president to use “all means necessary” to free any citizen in court custody.
