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President Trump issued an executive order on Friday, June 12, to block the visas and property of some International Criminal Court personnel. Within hours a mushroom cloud of denouncements by Blue-Checks loomed over social media. “More U.S. thuggery.” “The U.S. Rogue Regime continues.” The Court is “blackmailed by lawless gang posing as diplomats.” The International Criminal Court (ICC) complained that the Executive Order is “an unacceptable attempt to interfere with the rule of law.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promptly responded: “We will not stand idly by if the International Criminal Court follows through with its ideological crusade against American service members.”
At immediate issue in the president’s executive order is a revived 2017 ICC attempt to formally investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan during 2003–2004. The Court was established in 2002 but waited 13 years—throughout the Bush and Obama administrations—to find warrant to investigate the U.S. military and CIA personnel (along with the Taliban) for alleged crimes. That 2017 review failed to find sufficient evidence for ICC prosecutors to proceed. Nonetheless, in 2019 ICC Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, appealed to reopen the investigation.
Of particular importance to Christians is the observation by Secretary Pompeo that the ICC is capable of ideological crusades. The current investigation by the ICC is directed toward alleged war crimes; the Court, however, has broad jurisdiction to examine genocide, crimes against humanity, and the amorphous “crimes of aggression,” too. Within the category of crimes against humanity are various subsets for gender and “other inhumane acts… causing great suffering… to mental or physical health.” Ideological activists whose framework is global rather than local frequently suggest that the ICC should prosecute individuals for “crimes” that injure their perceived “rights.”
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The Pro-Antifa, Anti-Catholic ICC - Crisis Magazine
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promptly responded: “We will not stand idly by if the International Criminal Court follows through with its ideological crusade against American service members.”
At immediate issue in the president’s executive order is a revived 2017 ICC attempt to formally investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan during 2003–2004. The Court was established in 2002 but waited 13 years—throughout the Bush and Obama administrations—to find warrant to investigate the U.S. military and CIA personnel (along with the Taliban) for alleged crimes. That 2017 review failed to find sufficient evidence for ICC prosecutors to proceed. Nonetheless, in 2019 ICC Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, appealed to reopen the investigation.
Of particular importance to Christians is the observation by Secretary Pompeo that the ICC is capable of ideological crusades. The current investigation by the ICC is directed toward alleged war crimes; the Court, however, has broad jurisdiction to examine genocide, crimes against humanity, and the amorphous “crimes of aggression,” too. Within the category of crimes against humanity are various subsets for gender and “other inhumane acts… causing great suffering… to mental or physical health.” Ideological activists whose framework is global rather than local frequently suggest that the ICC should prosecute individuals for “crimes” that injure their perceived “rights.”
Continued below.
The Pro-Antifa, Anti-Catholic ICC - Crisis Magazine
