Dear GG,

You write that the International Criminal Court represents the most ambitious effort in history to create a permanent international tribunal capable of prosecuting genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

Your statement, most correct, does not take into account the fact that politicians learnt from the real rulers of the world, Religious Corporations, which preceded them. Religions say “you shall not kill” but they all had armies trained to fight and kill.

This explains why, between the 125 countries who signed the ICC agreement, they keep the world permanently at war.

In addition we have the countries that signed the Rome Statute (ICC) but did not ‘ratify’ it; they include the United States, Russia, Israel, Sudan, Syria and Egypt.

Furthermore, we have to bear in mind that Heads of the ICC are chosen and appointed by the 18 judges that work at the ICC, many of them who come from countries full of corruption, currently from Japan, Italy, Benin, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, UK, Mongolia, Mexico, France, Slovenia, Peru, Georgia, Romania, South Korea, Canada, Sierra Leone and Costa Rica.

Believe me, none of these judges feels undermined by the US attacks.

Finally, I add that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is a similar story and it is not a coincidence that the current Presidents of ICC and ICJ are both from Japan, and that the previous president of ICJ came from war torn Lebanon.

We have to take all this information on board and analyse it, to understand why the world is in the messy and violent state we witness.

Alberto Portugheis
HUFUD Founder & President
https://hufud.org/