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Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC

143 points · 131 comments · vrganj

  1. 47282847 · · focus · HN ↗
    Which country besides the US has the audacity to think it has extraterritorial rights to interfere with legal practices elsewhere? To me, it is obvious that this is violent behavior and will lead to defensive action by others, and more violence, not more peace.

    If it was the “hard power” it claims, what is it that makes “it” so afraid? To me, it is fairly obvious that this is how a threatened being behaves, in “childish ways”, before it fully falls apart.

    1. grumple · · focus · HN ↗
      The ICC itself and its member states believe they have extraterritorial rights to interfere with legal practices elsewhere, which is sort of the whole point.
      1. ctolsen · · focus · HN ↗
        The ICC claims rights in territories where the sovereign power in that territory has signed and incorporated a treaty that grants those rights. ICC jurisdiction is domestic law.
        1. grumple · · focus · HN ↗
          The ICC is issuing warrants against non-members. In fact, the issuance of the warrants against the Israelis even violates the ICCs own rules and precedent: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;appealing-icc-arrest-warrants-israel-says-court-violated-its-own-charter-and-rulings&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;appealing-icc-arrest-warrants-...

          And then there’s the whole bit about the ICC prosecutor who issued the warrants (Khan) issuing them as an attempt blackmail a fellow Muslim ICC employee who he was raping into keeping silent with “think of the Palestinian arrest warrants”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;YrxUF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;YrxUF

          1. 47282847 · · focus · HN ↗
            Any country is free to issue warrants, and enforce them on their own territory. Any country is free to enforce other countries warrants on their territories or not. That’s what mutual legal assistance treaties are for.
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