US-Enforced Self-Immunity From The International Criminal Court

I'm not doing well with ongoing exposure, during renovations, to chemicals which affect me physically and with what I refer to as 'brain scramble, but however much I may mangle the attempt, I'd like to bring this to general attention. Perhaps everyone but myself has heard of these agreements, but considering the long-standing calls for war criminals to be dealt with by an independent international court and the lack of mention of Bilateral Immunity Agreements, I feel that this needs to get out there ASAP, where those so much better qualified than myself can add this to the growing list of evidence of blatant criminality on the part of The Psychopaths That Be running the US government and perhaps come up with some means of raising public awareness or otherwise beginning to rectify the situation.

This is how corporate/billionaire-representing war criminals infiltrating the US government from Bush 2 on have evaded the justice meted out to the Nazis.

In order to 'justify' their repudiation of law and order and any pretense of basic morality, a spurious air of 'legality' is typically attempted by the passage of illegal 'law' purportedly 'legalizing' the illegal or by the creation of 'trade agreements' to abandon law, Constitutions, human and citizen rights and even the ability of life to survive on the planet, forced through and inflicted upon an unwitting/unwilling population in each case.

The law-abiding are typically reluctant to challenge what seems to be established law, even on a 'Simon Says' basis, since law intended to protect the public interest and country has too-often been turned into a gaming occupation for hostile self-interests in too many areas, with its actual basis for existence obscured by such as the perversion of intent, the acceptance and continuation of bad precedent as established 'law', industry 'science' and warped judicial 'interpretations'.

This lawless tendency has been and is, as we know all too well, being applied internationally, enforced via threats, military attacks, the support of terrorist groups, the overthrow of democratic/more humanitarian governments, bribery - any criminal means necessary.

We've heard about the 'trade' agreements' illegally and unconstitutionally turning over inherent and inalienable public control of domestic law in unwittingly/unwillingly involved countries to corporate greed-mongers - but this following is one of the many things of which I'd personally heard nothing until coming across a reference just recently.

This is not a legitimate government, this is an infiltrating mob of criminal psychopaths intent on destroying planetary life for personal profit and micro-managed control, in the belief that they themselves will somehow survive, when their actions have already resulted in estimates that no more than 10 years of survival may be possible for either the human race or the natural life-support system, unless this is immediately rectified.

It's not just the political lackeys and corporate/billionaire representatives in direct government, but the ability of such hostile self-interests to interfere in and usurp public control over public policy and government which must be eliminated. It's them or us now - or none of us not very much later.

All emphasis mine.

http://iccnow.org/?mod=bia

Coalition For The International Criminal Court

General Bantz Craddock, Head of US Southern Command, voiced serious concern about the US BIA policy to US Congress on 9 March 2005 and again on 14 and 16 March 2006. Credit: Air Force 1st Lt. Rebecca Garland.

> A Universal Court with Global Support > USA and the ICC > Bilateral Immunity Agreements
Bilateral Immunity Agreements

This page provides a comprehensive compilation of NGO, government and inter-governmental documents related to US-proposed bilateral agreements seeking to ensure the non-surrender of US personnel — including both US nationals and foreign contractors working for the United States — to the International Criminal Court. These agreements are alternately referred to as so-called \"Article 98\" agreements, bilateral immunity agreements (BIAs), impunity agreements or bilateral non-surrender agreements.

This page contains: Background Documents, NGO and Academic Papers and Reports, Government and Inter-governmental Reports and Statements, and NGO Media Statements. CICC members\' media statements are also available in the Press Room.

Another section also has specific information on US legislation that restricts US foreign assistance to countries that do not sign these bilateral immunity agreements. ...

(There is a solid mass shown of those 'few dozen protesters' facing militarized police, btw.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbZGCxis9U

US secretary of state arrives for bilateral talks, protest
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Published on 23 Jul 2015

Published on 23 Jul 2015

(video)

SHOTLIST
1. Wide of aeroplane carrying US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton taxiing as soldiers march in the foreground
2. Cutaway to cameramen
3. Clinton descending stairs of the plane and being greeted by officials
4. Wide of crowd
5. Various of Clinton reviewing troops
6. Various of Clinton waving
7. Various of Clinton greeting officials before boarding car
8. Cutaway to media
9. Wide of car leaving
10. Various of protesters scuffling with policemen
11. Wide of protesters lying down on the road
12. Mid of protester lying on the ground with placard reading in (English): "Hillary bring your soldiers back home."
13. Mid of placard reading in (English): "Obama, Clinton; where is the change?"
14. Various of protesters burning placard with American flag painted on it
STORYLINE
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Manila on Thursday for a visit aimed at showing support for the country's fight against extremists and its efforts to rebuild after three major storms rocked the islands.
Clinton arrived in the capital Manila from Singapore and was meeting with top Filipino officials as well as touring US-funded disaster relief projects.
Her one-day trip also will focus on countering Muslim extremists who are operating in the country's south.
Despite years of US military training and assistance, Filipino troops have struggled to contain the militants, who have recently intensified attacks, blowing up bridges, firing mortar shells and setting off roadside bombs.
Meanwhile a few dozen supporters demonstrated against Clinton's visit and America's involvement in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Philippines Senate recently passed a nonbinding resolution calling on the government to renegotiate a US-Philippine military pact that allows about 600 US troops to train and advise Filipino soldiers battling al-Qaida-linked militants in the country's south.
The government said it would review the agreement but gave no timetable.
A human rights watchdog on Tuesday urged Clinton to press Philippine President Gloria Arroyo to prosecute soldiers allegedly responsible for political killings.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Clinton should not waste the opportunity to raise concerns over hundreds of people allegedly killed by state forces since Arroyo came to power in 2001.
Human Rights Watch also urged Arroyo to sign into law an anti-torture bill passed by the Philippine Congress last month.
Arroyo's government, which has been fighting communist and Muslim insurgencies, said the unresolved killings of mostly left-wing activists were not sanctioned by the state.
The government and human rights groups differ on how many people have died, with some estimates as high as one-thousand.

Clinton's one-day visit to Manila this week will primarily focus on solidarity with Filipinos after massive floods and landslides killed more than 900 people last month, said a spokesperson.
They gave no indication that human rights would be on the agenda.
US State Department officials told reporters on Tuesday that Clinton would meet with Arroyo, the Philippines foreign minister and other officials during her trip.
Arroyo has a close relationship with the Clintons, being a classmate of former President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University, according to Arroyo's spokesman, Cerge Remonde.

Human rights do not have to be on the agenda when the US can create agreements that they - and even international law - do not apply where corporate profiteering is concerned and can withhold aid to the desperate and have the world's largest military to force their acceptance and the pretense of their legality. This is the fascist wet-dream.

Such irony...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG5yYlq7ssY

Published on 30 Jul 2015
Clinton arrives ahead of UN Human Rights Council meeting
AP Archive

(video)

1. Wide of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's plane taxiing on the tarmac at Geneva airport
2. Various of heavily armed police officers
3. Clinton leaves the plane and walks down stairs; she greets US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Betty E. King, US Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Donald S. Beyer Jr. and Deputy Chief of Protocol of Geneva Canton Dominique Louis
4. Pan right of police armoured vehicle driving
5. Wide of Clinton's motorcade leaving airport
STORYLINE:
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Geneva on Sunday night where she will confer with foreign policy chiefs from Russia, the European Union and other global powers on how to convince the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to step down.
The Libyan regime appears determined to cling to power and crush opposition to Gadhafi's rule.
US President Barack Obama has branded Gadhafi an illegitimate ruler who must leave power immediately, while Clinton has kept up pressure for him to step down and told him to "call off the mercenaries" and other troops that remain loyal to him.

Clinton was greeted at the airport by US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Betty E. King, US Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Donald S. Beyer Jr. and Deputy Chief of Protocol of Geneva Canton Dominique Louis.
Clinton's visit to Geneva comes after the UN Security Council voted 15-0 late on Saturday to impose an arms embargo and urged UN member countries to freeze the assets of Gadhafi, four of his sons and a daughter.
The council also backed a travel ban on the Gadhafi family and close associates, including leaders of the revolutionary committees accused of much of the violence against regime opponents.
Council members additionally agreed to refer the Gadhafi regime's deadly crackdown on people protesting his rule to a permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, for an investigation of possible crimes against humanity.
The ICC's Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo was instructed to report back to the council in two months on his investigation.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who had pushed the council to take urgent action, was due in Washington on Monday to discuss with Obama other possible measures that could be taken against the Libyan government.

The 192-member UN General Assembly is meeting on Tuesday to vote on a UN Human Rights Council recommendation to suspend Libya from the world organisation's top human rights body.

They came, they saw - and everyone dies?

But corporations aren't actually people, my friend, and the liability-avoiding legal construct can only be 'killed' or restricted by responsible and sane government of, by and for the people.

Edited due to a misplaced - and repeated - sentence. And edited again, because the repeated sentence somehow hadn't been removed after all.

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Belatedly wondering if I'm OK with my quoting from archives, although I can't see any other way to make what seem to me to be necessary points? Should I just include the bolded parts and recommend reading the story-line, since people have to go to source to see the videos anyway? Hoping for advice, because I'm feeling very tired and scrambled from the chemical exposures - it's very annoying...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.