Doesn't this treaty have some serious military implications? Something about making it illegal for submarines to travel while submerged under certain circumstances. Also aren't there restrictions on the activities of naval vessels like needing U.N. permission to be in international waters? I thought parts of this treated were designed to keep the U.S. navy from going outside U.S. waters or some such nonsense. Anyone have info on this?
And speaking of our military, the International Criminal Court is now empowered to try U.S. soldiers - our representatives caved on opting out. If you read the article I've linked to you may note, as I did, that the Abu Ghraib prison scandal was used as leverage against the United States and our goveernment's formerly strong stance against this court claiming any power over our troops or citizens.
Here's another article; this one states, "Proponents of the ICC say it is highly unlikely that U.S. citizens would be brought before the court, since the United States has a functioning justice system." Well, let me just jot down this reminder: President Bush and our Republican Congresscritters have caved to Democrats on the selection of judges, so the sort of "functioning" we've witnessed in U.S. courts of late is not only going to continue, it is going to get worse. And if Right-thinking people try to fight it, guess who is now empowered to step in and resolve the issue? Remember the fiasco in Florida in 2000? Gore would have brought his issues with that interminable count to this International Court...and they would have given the "election" to him.
LOST and the ICC together move the United States into total subservience to a global government, headed by the United Nations. The decadently Liberal judges in our once-sovereign nation have been working on the idea of a "global converstation" in our courts for a long time now. It is way past time to smell the coffee. We're drowning in it.