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With regard to the scandalous nature of the remarks made about the United States, I would simply say that, by condemning their refusal – which is perfectly legal and legitimate, by the way – to sign up to the Statute of Rome on the International Criminal Court, adopted in 1998, Parliament is committing a gross act of interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign State.
In the name of what is it doing so? In the name of a proposed international criminal law to be imposed, God know how and why, on the members of ‘international society’. Clearly, the moralists of cosmopolitan ‘right-thinking’ have learnt or understood absolutely nothing.
The ICC will be to human rights what the SDN was to the maintenance of peace: a hollow shell!
The effectiveness of a legal system does not depend solely on the legislation it lays down, but also on its ability to impose its law as a result of its ‘monopoly of legitimate violence’. Public order requires a public power, an imperium which can exercise coercion. The judge is nothing without the power of the sword.
If the ICC is to be more than a mere gimmick, then we must establish an international public power, and therefore a world government! However much this imperialist thinking claims to represent universal humanism, we reject it."@en1
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