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2009-01-26 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by tu3031 2009-01-26 11:51|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 My guess is the trial will take almost a decade and these bozos are paid for by the hour.

What a racket.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-26 12:41|| 2009-01-26 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 True! plus the locals make good money on car parking for the one million plus visitors annually who visit the hague!
wonder if court attendees can get out of paying parking fines if their meters run out? seeing as how they dont know how to keep within schedule, i bet theyll be handing out a few time violations to some activists?

Posted by Clem Thrainter8407 2009-01-26 13:40|| 2009-01-26 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't believe the International Court verdicts include the death penalty. An hotel suite is about the stiffest sentence they will render.

Posted by ThealingBorgia 122 2009-01-26 13:59|| 2009-01-26 13:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably handled under 'Diplomatic Immunity' Clem. Isn't that how U.N. parking in New York works?

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-26 14:27|| 2009-01-26 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 A Lawless Global Court
By John Rosenthal
How the International Criminal Court undermines the U.N. system

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-01-26 15:18|| 2009-01-26 15:18|| Front Page Top

#6 tu and DarthVader, while it sounds like an easy cheap shot to claim that there's the perverse incentive here of court staff and counsel being paid by the hour/week/month/year, I'll bet it's true.

Someone in a position to know WRT an African tribunal (prob. Rwanda, can't remember) said that this perverse incentive was clearly at work, as the court would grant delays and etc. on the slightest pretext and in response to almost any request.

Of course the Iraqi tribunal has not been without its blemishes - but they get the facts on the table, the defendants have complete free reign to argue their case (if any), and the court has shown as much regard for the nuances of individual defenses as it has for the undeniably huge pressure on it to produce guilty verdicts.

So what is the current management in DC gonna do about the ICC? I'd guess they'll keep it at arms' length, if only because the fear of being "soft" or careless with our military is (rightfully) acute.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-01-26 21:37|| 2009-01-26 21:37|| Front Page Top

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