Apocalyptic Hope .................. World Courts part two
WORLD COURTS part 1 includes
:
ICC ( military tribunal; Hague
Netherlands) , ICJ (a UN court , Hague
Netherlands) ,
ECHR
(political
correctness, Human Rights; Strasbourg France) ; ECJ European laws ,
Luxembourg;
also : prisoners and GAN Global
Advisory Network.
"International
Standards of Judicial Conduct "
UK to
begin subdermal microchipping of prisoners -- June 21, 2008
"( NaturalNews) The British government is
developing a plan to track current and former prisoners by means
of microchips implanted under the skin,
drawing intense criticism from probation officers and civil
rights groups
Now the Ministry of Justice is exploring the
possibility of injecting prisoners in the back of the arm with a
radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that
contains information about their name, address and criminal
record. Such chips, which contain a built-in antenna, could be
scanned by special readers. The implantation of RFID chips in
luggage, pets and livestock has become increasingly popular in
recent years.
In addition to monitoring incarcerated prisoners, the ministry
hopes to use the chips on those who are
on probation or other conditional release. By
including a satellite uplink system in the chip, police would be
able to use global positioning system
(GPS) technology to track subjects' exact locations
at all times. According to advocates of such a measure, this
could help keep sex offenders away from "forbidden"
zones like schools
http://www.naturalnews.com/023481.html
O'Conner:
Less US Constitution and more International Law -- Oct. 31, 2003
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35367
EU-US to
share judicial matters--Feb. 28, 2003
EU leaders have agreed on what to do when
competing requests are made between EU states themselves. In this
case the European Arrest Warrant will apply.
The Warrant, agreed in December 2001 by the EU
states and coming into force in January 2004, will
eliminate national frontiers. Extradition will not now
be necessary between one EU state and another.
The US is requesting the same privilege as the EU states.
A point fiercely opposed by the Union.
The plan currently negotiated between the EU and US also aims to
improve co-operation on investigations into financial elements of
serious crime including organised crime, terrorism
and financial crime.
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=9522
Ed. note:
"terrorism" includes anything the State wants it to
mean, including Biblical Christianity.
American perspective on World Courts
(we say "no"...but do "yes" )
http://www.state.gov/p/9949.htm
Throwing out the basis of Judeo-Christian Amrican Law--- August
17, 2003
http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david9.htm
Federal
prisoners sent out of state -- Oct. 27, 2005
The U.S. Marshals Service in Las Vegas is contracting with
Corrections Corporation of America to move about 50
inmates to jails in San Diego and Florence, Ariz., within the
next month because of the lack of local space, according to
Fidencio Rivera, chief deputy U.S. Marshal in Las Vegas.
Within a year the Marshals Service could be moving as many as 100 federal prisoners a day
to California or Arizona, Rivera said.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2005/oct/27/519571025.html
International Law .... pragmatism ? April 23, 2003
Ed: Not what is morally right, but what is the easiest quickest
means to a desired end, moral or not.
Fixing the
U.N. by
Michael J. Glennon, Tufts University
http://www.iht.com/articles/94047.html
The Rule
of International Law--Henry Lamb--April 19, 2003
France, Germany and Russia joined Kofi Annan in
proclaiming that the world should be governed
by the rule of international
law, under the administration of the United
Nations. Under
international law, as devised and administered by the U.N., the
people who are governed by it have no
opportunity to express their consent, nor to hold the lawmakers
accountable.
People who are governed express their consent through
the representatives they elect and empower to make laws. If they
disapprove of the laws that are made, the people are free to
elect new representatives who can repeal the oppressive laws.
At the United Nations, laws are fashioned by faceless bureaucrats
and adopted by the consensus of appointed delegates, who have
little interest in, and no accountability to,
the people who are governed by their laws.
The people who are governed have no recourse
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32147
One
World Trust ---Corporations ruling the World
CHARTER 99 .....INTERNATIONAL LAW
None dare call it
Tyranny....."monitor"..."regulate" etc.
http://www.oneworldtrust.org/Ch99/htmlGAP/report/newsongap.htm
http://www.charter99.org/
THREE WORLD COURTS in
EUROPE ( International )
1.
International Criminal Court (
ICC )... The Hague, Netherlands
which
is a global military tribunal court
2. The Intrnt'l Court of Justice ( ICJ )--- Defining law
...also
at the Hague, Netherlands
"principle judicial organ of the United Nations"
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icj002.htm
3. Strasbourg, France... home of
the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR)
Global
court for political-correctness and religious correctness
(pro-gay) etc.
WORLD
LAW....International Law
The Global Judicial System will reside in the European
Superstate.
1. International Criminal Court (ICC )
2. and The World Court--International Court of Justice (both in
the Netherlands -- formerly Holland)
3. and the "ECHR"-- European Court of Human Rights,
Strasburg, France
....................................crimes against
political-correctness
The judges will implement laws based upon no particular codex or
standard
(All laws will be made up
by 11 judges).
COMMON LAW, in existence for 1,000 years, will be turned over.
Judeo-Christian ethic (4,000 years) disregarded as irrelevant and
archaic.
Please
see
Psalm 82 about judges
(called "gods") bowing to special interests
ICC.... International Criminal
Court ; The Hague, Netherlands
World Court
.... global
military tribunal ....Rome
Statute
Moreno-Ocampo
France pressures US into coming under the ICC -- March 24, 2005
France has tabled a draft resolution at the UN
that would refer crimes against humanity in Sudan’s western
Darfur region to the International Criminal Court in The
Hague (ICC).
The resolution places the US in the difficult dilemma of
accepting the International Criminal Court or casting a
politically damaging veto in the UN Security Council.
The United States earlier this week circulated
three separate resolutions at the UN to pave the way for a 10,000-strong
UN peacekeeping force to be sent to Sudan.
http://euobserver.com/?aid=18739&rk=1
The ICC and the US -- June 21, 2003....Henry Lamb
The battle over the ICC is, perhaps, the sharpest
example of the contest between U.S. sovereignty and global
governance. Without U.S. support and participation, the court's
relevance is seriously jeopardized. Should the U.S. fall victim
to the court's jurisdiction, U.S. sovereignty will fade into
history....
Those who support U.S. involvement in the ICC and the U.N.,
support a socialist philosophy that holds that the power of
government is omnipotent and thus may – or may not –
grant rights to citizens.
Those who oppose U.S. involvement in these institutions tend to
believe that government is not omnipotent but is empowered only
by the consent of the governed. They realize that the policies of
the ICC and the U.N. are formulated way beyond their consent and
beyond any accountability to the governed. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33201
Moreno-Ocampo sworn in -- June 17, 2003
At the "Peace Palace" ICC in the Hague
The United States fears that the court could
become a forum for politically-motivated prosecutions of its
citizens -- notably US soldiers working as peacekeepers around
the world.
Washington is therefore seeking to clinch deals with individual
nations that will give US citizens immunity from ICC prosecution
in those countries and has so far publicly announced 38 such
deals.
But on Monday, diplomatic sources told AFP that Washington had
also signed previously-unannounced deals with five countries --
Egypt, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Tunisia and the Seychelles.
A document obtained by AFP that was prepared by the US State
Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs named the same
five countries as signers of so-called "Article 98"
agreements. That bureau is in charge of negotiating the
agreements on behalf of the US government.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030616/1/3bude.html
World Court Prosecutor: Luis Moreno Ocampo-- April 24, 2003
non-elected by the people
The ICC's Assembly of States Parties
voted 78-0 for Luis Moreno Ocampo who was the only candidate for
the job.
"The experience of Moreno Ocampo... will make him
a highly competent and skilled ICC Prosecutor," said David
Donat-Cattin of the International Law and Human Rights Programme
at Parliamentarians for Global Action.
The ICC - which was set up by the signatories of the 1998 Rome Treaty - is the first
permanent international tribunal established to try cases
of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"The election of an experienced prosecutor and Harvard
professor is further proof that the ICC will be a serious,
responsible and effective organisation," Richard Dicker of
Human Rights Watch said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2965147.stm
Administration cuts aid to 35 countries over ICC -- July 2, 2003
Overall, about $48-million (U.S.) in aid will be blocked,
according to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. Among
the nations affected is Colombia, where some U.S. assistance for
fighting drugs and terrorists could be in jeopardy.
The aid cutoff is because the countries failed to meet a Tuesday
deadline for exempting Americans from prosecution before
the new war-crimes tribunal.
The U.S. administration is simply acting to protect its
troops, [ note: it does not
say "citizens"] White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer said.
Congress set a July 1 deadline for most recipients of U.S.
military aid to exempt U.S. soldiers and other personnel from
prosecution before the new UN International Criminal Court. The
Bush administration fears the court could leave U.S. personnel
subject to false, politically motivated prosecutions
[note: this protection is only
for the military personnel, not the citizenry]
Under the law approved by Congress last year, at least 27
foreign states were exempted from the military-aid cutoff,
including the 18 other members of the NATO military alliance and
the two largest recipients of military aid, Israel and Egypt. U.S.
President George W. Bush can exempt other nations if he deems it
in the U.S. national interest.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030702.wcour0702/BNStory/International/
US Hypocrisy
Why the
mightiest economic and military power on earth would want to act
outside the purview of such a court has never been adequately
explained. But the only conclusion one can draw hardly needs
stating - that the US military has been, or will be, committing
just the kind of crimes the international court will be trying.
This reveals deep
hypocrisy. Since the end of the Second World War, the US has been
at the forefront of internationalism when it comes to trying the
kind of crimes outlined.
Yet it is
instructive the US is not opposed to establishing the court. It
only wants its own military granted permanent immunity from
genocide and war crimes trials.
We can only assume that the US will also want to reserve for
itself the right to haul leaders and soldiers of other countries
before those very courts
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/Today/Comment/Editorial030720039.html
Dancing witht the globalist devil ? June 7, 2003
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32965
Profile : Luis Moreno Ocampo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2965263.stm
http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/bios/democracy/bios_ocampo.html
Dec. 31, 2000 Clinton (David Scheffer) signs ICC document
https://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/21/133916.shtml
World Criminal Court Launched --March 11, 2003
The ICC will try genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes
and the yet-to-be defined crime of aggression.
Since it was officially set up last July, the ICC has received
more than 200 complaints alleging war crimes, though it will say
nothing about the nature of them.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/03/11/warcrimes.court.reut/index.html
World Criminal Court (ICC) now a reality--April 2002
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27180
The
ICC will apply to all who sign the Rome Statute
He said that the ICC only has jurisdiction over
individuals who are nationals of states that have ratified the
Rome Statute, which until last month has been ratified by 90
states.
He said that the Rome Statute and the ICC are well placed to
act as an enforcement mechanism for dealing with crimes against
humanity, acts of genocide and severe violations of human rights.
– http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/6/6/nation/baricc&sec=nation
1.
International Criminal Court (War Crimes)... by
ROME STATUTE....The
Hague, Netherlands
www.iccnow.org/html/icc19990712.html
The International Criminal Court (ICC),
which theoretically could prosecute and imprison American service
men and women on foreign soil for perceived war crimes, is
the brainchild of the U.N. and supported by the UNA.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200204/FOR20020419a.html
Risks in the Rome Statute...the ICC....July 1-2002 (anti-Israeli bias)
But the Rome Statute completely
ignores the problem of terrorism, and did
not include terror on the list of crimes to be judged by the
International Criminal Court, because of the difficulty of
defining terrorism and terrorists.
But under pressure from the Arab states, the statute determines
that "transferring population to occupied territory" is
a war crime, and that article now is apparently threatening to
yield suits against the settlements. That approach must be
rejected. The solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict is to be
found on the political plane, and the fate of the settlements
should be determined around the negotiating table and not in a
courtroom.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=181828&contrassID=2&subContrassID=3&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=181828
Choosing
Global Judges
20
International Judicial Bodies with 210 appointed global judges (not voted upon)
(more hypocrisy-democracy)
The extradition of Slobodan Milosevic to
The Hague has thrown the growing importance of international
courts into sharp relief. Some 210 international judges now sit
on more than 20 international judicial bodies, but there is
little public awareness about these bodies, and almost as little
accountability to the public. Still less is known about who the
judges are, how they are appointed and the basis upon which they
approach international justice
http://www.iht.com/articles/26040.html (not
available)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,521081,00.html
http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/01/icc-elections.htm
Mostly
women judges http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,891900,00.html
Rome
Diplomatic Conference : "No Peace Without Justice"
ICC Court---The Hague , Netherlands
www.politicalresources.net/c-criminal-court.htm
Bush caves to ICC slowly-- July 5-2002
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28202
Bush wants U.S. military accountable to World Court
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010817-15753448.htm
US Supreme Court Justice Scalia :Constitution not a living
document
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/frame/direct.asp?SITE=www.jsonline.com/news/metro/mar01/scalia14031301a.asp
Isaiah 10:1 "Woe to them that decree
unrighteous decrees"
Ad
Hoc Tribunal (Yugoslavia...Miloslovik)
Bush demands that Miloslovik be turned
over to the Internat'l War Crimes Tribunal....the Hague
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1322000/1322301.stm
International Crime Tribunal of Yugoslavia
http://www.un.org/icty/
ALLOWING THE CONSTITUTION TO YIELD TO INTERNATIONAL PRECEDENTS
Slobodan Milosevic
stood alone at the Hague this week without defense council and
decried the illicit authority of the International Court of Human
Justice. He is right. While Milosevic is not completely innocent
of crimes against humanity, NATO is also guilty for carrying out
the bombing of innocent civilians in Serbia and Kosovo--and not
by accident. We have heard transcripts of NATO giving orders to a
US Air Force pilot who is objecting to firing on a civilian
column of refugees. How ironic--a former
Communist dictator is standing up and speaking the arguments
which every conservative American should be voicing.
But it is precisely because Milosevic is uttering them that the
media will be able to discredit his challenge to the court’s
authority--and many unperceptive mainstream American Republicans
will take the side of the court thinking that justice is being
done.
As I watched Milosevic’s feeble attempts at a
principled defense, I
couldn’t help but realize that there is no power on earth to
intervene and save anyone from such an usurpation of power.
When free nations willingly subvert their
constitutional sovereignty to allow such a court to operate, they
will someday find themselves without recourse when the court
turns on them. Someday
there will be US citizens on the docket and that person will cry
out for relief from an unjust jurisdiction and the US will say,
"we cannot intervene" for the US will have long since
acceded to the international jurisdiction of the court.
Such is the way sovereignty is lost: by allowing precedent to
overrule direct written protections in constitutional law.
Only a mere handful of Congressmen, though all have sworn to
uphold the Constitution, have protested the actions of this
court.
from World Affairs Brief.....Joel
Skousen www.joelskousen.com
Next, a global
parliament...people want a say--April 19-2002...IHT
by Richard Falk and Andrew
Strauss
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=55167
ICC now official ... April 11-2002
66 countries ratify
In a rebuff to its European allies, a major force
behind the court, the Bush administration rejected the entire
concept of a permanent international war crimes tribunal.
And it is considering withdrawing former President Bill Clinton's
signature from the Rome treaty, even though Clinton did not
submit it to Congress for ratification, fearing U.S. soldiers
abroad would be subjected to frivolous prosecutions.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=ARSC5OZE3R2FKCRBAEKSFFAKEEATIIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=798994
117 nations agreed to
The Rome Statute on July 17, 1998
60 nations (half of the nations involved) need to
sign the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , in
order for the Court to have legal jurisdiction. So far, 25
nations have signed this Rome Statute (half of the
half.....or 1/4 of the original signators.)
Israel is expected to sign before the end of 2000.
Will President Clinton sign, thereby placing Americans
under foreign jurisdiction?
That would be unconstitutional.
After January 1, 2001 a country must ratify in
order to sign.
Am not sure what this means. It may mean that the nation decides
after the 1st of the year, whereas for now (prior to 2001) only a
leader makes this decision alone at this time.
To sign early, gives a nation "founding" status, and
"a formal say in how the court will be run."
Dec. 31-2000 ...Clinton signs World Court treaty
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001231/14/news-clinton-un-tribunal
Clinton's rationale:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20001231/pl/clinton_un_tribunal_text_2.html
David Scheffer is chief word-smith in assisting this
administration in rationalizing a way to accept the unacceptable.
Human Rights Watch...
Richard Dicker:"Delegations are twisting themselves into
pretzels to bring the Americans in".
Court may prosecute US soldiers
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200111224829.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/1/190108.shtml
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/123100/clinton.sml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_1095000/1095343.stm
House seeks to exempt US soldiers from ICC
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010510-641507.htm
US and
ICC...World Court Tribunal
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=4353
Twisting "hate"
crimes to mean one must allow immorality
The ICC would have jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes
against humanity and genocide.
It is the first Court of its kind to try individuals for such
crimes.
While the words sound good, semantics can skillfully turn this
into a Draconian court.
ICC--Courting Disaster by Gary Dempsey
http://www.cato.org//dailys/8-19-98.html
It is obvious that anyone against homosexuality will be
committing a so-called "hate" crime against humanity.
But what about Jesse Dirkhising (Arkansas)
who was killed by 2 homosexuals for being a Christian??
They won't allow that story to be brought to light in the
media.
What about 10 year old Jeffrey Curly who was kidnapped by 2
homosexuals in Cambridge, Mass., sexually assaulted and murdered
? Was that a "hate Crime"....the just killed by the
unjust ?
Nor will we hear of "hate crimes against Christians"
when they were killed at Littleton, Fort Worth and Peducah.
If being against homosexuality is a "hate " crime, then
what happens to the Bible, our foundation for the Judeo-Christian
ethic? Will it be banned?
Everyone--including the secularists---already know that
Christians are against the sin of homosexuality...not against
homosexuals. Our response is the same one given to the sexual sin
in John 8:11..... "Go and sin no more". That is not
hate.
Why wasn't the killing spree in Colorado Springs, Colorado called
a "hate crime" against Christians. It was there on Dec.
10, 2007 that Matthew Murray entered the New Life church with a
1,000 rounds of ammunition killing randomly until downed by the
security guard. There was no outrage by the media at all. 1,000
Christians were quite expendable. This has never been reported as
a "hate crime".
http://thecitizensjournalblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/armed-hero-at-church-shooting-saved.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/us/11churches.html
Media Blackout on Christian woman killed by homosexual--Nov
26-2002
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2847&department=MEDIA&categoryid=family
Should gay Teens face charges for killing Christian ? Nov 26-2002
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2847&department=MEDIA&categoryid=family
Mr. Shepherd was NOT killed by
Christians. He was killed by
non-christians who hated homosexuality.
It is against Christianity to kill in cold blood and for hate.
There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to connect the Shepherd cold-blooded
murder to Christianity.
A Hate Crime perpetrated against Mary Stachowicz --Nov 2002
Peter LaBarbera of the Culture and Family Institute says the murder
was blatantly a hate crime. "It's going to be hard for
people to say this is not an anti-Christian hate crime committed
by a homosexual activist," he says. "But I fully expect
the media to not pay a lot of attention to this case."
Today LaBarbara blasted the media for its blackout of the
story. "If a gay man had been murdered for trying to
convince someone to be gay, it would be a national news story and
be deemed a hate crime," he says. "But when a gay man
murders a woman who tried to convince him to change, the media
spike the story.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/252002a.asp
Crime to evangelize or witness
http://www.law.emory.edu/EILR/special/lerner.html
Bias in hate law
http://www.worthynews.com/commentary/galludet.html
Strengthening the penalty for "hate" crimes
(Texas)....."religion"
The bill toughens the current "hate crimes" law, which
the courts have held is unenforceable. Penalties for crimes based
on race, religion, national ancestry and sexual orientation are
increased. Some conservatives have objected to the provision on
sexual orientation
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/23/212444.shtml
Sweden : illegal to come against
homosexuality---June 11-2002
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0021073.html
Sweden: "Hate" Sermons violate UN Declaration of Human
Rights ---July 26-2002
(swapping the 10 commandments)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/009/15.22.html
The Case against the ICC
"The creation of war crimes courts, he concludes, seems
really "to have been aimed at making lawyers the 'guardians'
of a violent society, in which war is all right as long as it is
played by rules to which the concerned lawyers can agree."[10]
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-311.html
Why
America should not be in the ICC
Wm. Safire..."U.S. is Right to avoid a Global Treaty
Trap"
That is because the agreement empowers a
global court to arrest, try and imprison American, Israeli and
other citizens of democracies for an undefined crime of
"aggression." With no Security Council veto to restrain
the ICC, its prosecutor would surely accede today to an Arab
League request to indict Israeli soldiers, and tomorrow to indict
any U.S. officeholder or service member who dared to offend a
local dictator.
An international prosecutor, answerable to no nation and
unrestrained by any Bill of Rights, is the rest of the world's
weapon to bring the too-sovereign superpower to heel. Were the
United States to subject itself to the rule of the lawless, no
U.S. sailor or president could travel abroad without becoming
vulnerable to arrest by a politically motivated prosecutor.
http://www.iht.com/articles/16281.html
Summary of Doubt about the ICC
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-311es.html
CICC...Coalition for International Criminal Court
www.igc.apc.org/icc
www.iccnow.org
ICJ-- International Court of
Justice...also called "WORLD COURT"
2.
The
Hague Netherlands....pronouncing legality (defining laws)
"principle judicial organ of the United Nations"
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icj002.htm
International
Court of Justice
http://infoplease.kids.lycos.com/ce6/history/A0852731.html
Princeton
U. makes up Universal Laws for World Courts
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2001/jul/23/072301107.html
(same
Univ. of Pete Singer who promotes convenience-killing of infants)
Princeton's Global Law Guidelines
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000060138jul23.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation
The hypocrisy of the World Court...pro-Moslem...anti-Semitic,
anti-Christian
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2001/am74.htm
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2001/frankm76-4.htm
Unprecedented:
Muslim law upheld in US Court...July 7, 2002
Abed Awad, who represented Houida Saadeh, hailed
the ruling as a breakthrough. "It essentially sets the stage
for Islamic mahr agreements to be considered valid contractual
obligations which are enforceable. And this particular ruling is
the most consistent with Islamic Law."
http://www.dawn.com/2002/07/06/top18.htm
What next
??? Beheadings ???
Drugs
legalized in Belgium; other EU countries to fellow
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0-426094,00.html
Court decides that German women should serve in military
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/1/190652.shtml
Illegal:
accidental death of civilians
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-95378,00.html
Globalization
and the World Court (ICJ)
http://saunders4congress.com/Comments/comments63.html
STRASBOURG,
FRANCE
3. European Court of Human Rights....Strasbourg, France
ECHR www.echr.coe.int ......prosecuting crimes against
political-correctness
Court
of Human Rights (Strasbourg) rules on Kurds leader Ocalan--March
13, 2003
http://www.iht.com/articles/89657.html
Constitutional lawyers bringing European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR)
to our neighborhoods. Enact globally...apply locally. Not so ?
read on....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Legal/2000-08/humanrights120800.shtml
International
Law (World Law) to supercede American Judicial System
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1195.cfm
Throwing
out Common Law (1,000 years old)
and the Judeo-Christian ethic (4,000 years old).
New kid on the block says "gay OK"......
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/cmlaw1.htm
Courts in Luxembourg
and in Strasbourg
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,406513,00.html
4. ECJ--
European Court of Justice of the European communities ..... Luxembourg
Highest European
Court defining European laws
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice
http://europa.eu/institutions/inst/justice/index_en.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0817886.html
GLOBAL ADVISORY NETWORK .... 1 World lawyers
THE ULTIMATE LAWYERS' MISSION IN ISRAEL : GAN Global Advisory
Network
..from Arutz 7 -- June 26, 2003
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=45720
(emphasis
and purple this editor)
All
Anglo; English-speaking :
Attorneys, law professors and jurists from around the world have
arrived in Jerusalem to
participate in the
"Ultimate Lawyers' Mission," under the
auspices of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center.
The Mission participants, from 15 U.S. states, Canada, the United
Kingdom and Australia, are joining Israeli lawyers for an eight-day
program
(actually
it is 10 days: from June 22 to July 1-2003)
focusing on the realities of the terrorist
threat to Israel and what they can do as
lawyers to fight it.
www.israellawcenter.org/mission.shtml
The
participants are being treated to briefings by past and present
officers in the IDF Intelligence and Operations branches, as well
as by officials such as Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, Chief
Justice Aharon Barak, Avigdor Kahalani, Dore Gold, and
others. They toured the Beit El
military court yesterday while four Hamas
terrorists were on trial.
Also on the program is a visit to a front-line IDF position on
the Lebanese border, a briefing by a Jenin-area checkpoint
commander, and an exhibition by IDF undercover soldiers who carry
out special operations against fugitive Palestinian terrorists.
"I wanted to come to Israel now, in the midst of the
intifada, and really learn what is going on and how severe the
threat to Israel's security is," said participant Menashe
Frank, an attorney from Florida.
"I want to learn what I can do to help."
One goal of
the Lawyers' Mission is to establish an
international legal response network to fight terrorist
organizations and their sponsors. The participants are discussing
how they can use their legal experience and judicial systems to provide
mutual support in the war on
terrorism.
GAN
Global Advisory Network
www.globaladvisory.net/main
"We are hoping that this first group of 50 legal
professionals will form the basis of a global network of attorneys dedicated
to fighting terrorism
through the courts," said Shurat Hadin
Director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who herself has been active in
trying cases against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian
Authority. "Our goal is to create
a legal network that will
work to bankrupt the terrorist organizations and their financial
patrons."
end of Arutz article.
What role
will GAN play when a "buffer force" comes to secure
peace from Hamas?
Global
Justice Information Sharing Initiative
http://it.oip.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=8 (Global Advisory Committee
GAC advises Ashcroft)
CJIS Criminal Justice Information Services
www.cjisgroup.com/demo/index.cfm
It is
interesting to note that this lawyer's summit will be finished
with their meeting just in time for the European Union to change
over to the Italian presidency. What a coincidence.
* * * * * * *
This
all comes on the heels of the EAW ( European Arrest Warrant) extradition
treaty and the MLA (Mutual
Legal Assistance) treaty that Ashcroft
signed with the EU on June 25 (the day
before GAN) in the White House.
Ashcroft
signs treaties on 1.extradition
and 2. mutual legal assistance-- June 25, 2003
WASHINGTON, June 25 (AFP) - The United States and the
European Union signed an extradition treaty Wednesday at
a summit aimed to boost cooperation in the fight against
terrorism and in bringing suspects swiftly to trial.
US Attorney General John Ashcroft and
Greek Justice Minister Philippos Petsalnikos, representing the
EU, signed the treaty as well as a
second accord on broader legal cooperation between the parties.
"Both [ note: a door swings
both ways] the United
States and the EU are threatened by global terror. And we are
determined to defeat it," US President George W. Bush told
reporters, with EU leaders on hand.
"Today, we have signed new agreements to increase our legal
cooperation in the war on terror and to speed the extradition of
terrorists. Under these agreements, we will form joint
investigative teams and share information on suspect bank
accounts and expand the range of offenses that qualify
for extradition," Bush said.
Ashcroft said the treaties
"will give us additional tools to combat terrorism,
organized crime, and other serious forms of
criminality." (note: ambiguous terminology)
The treaty, outlined in a document that does not explicitly
mention the fight against terrorism, comes as part of the two blocs' desire
"to combat crime in a more effective way as a means of
protecting our respective democratic societies and our common
values." [note:
a door swings both ways . Will this eventually be used against
Bible-believing Christians ? We think so.]
The agreement guarantees for
a suspect "the right to a fair trial including the
"right to adjudication by an impartial tribunal established pursuant to
law."
http://www.eubusiness.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=113439
EAW and MLA agreements to be signed in Washington DC June
25th, 2003
Americans will be under the EU jurisdiction
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11824
Agreement of EU - US extradiction -- June 6, 2003
Both
the agreements have been approved," Danish Justice Minister
Lene Espersen told Reuters. The agreement, sought by Washington
to boost the fight against terrorism after the September 11,
2001, attacks on the United States, will be signed at
an EU-U.S. summit in Washington
on June 25.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030606/80/e1pji.html
EAW
also involves ICC -- June 23, 2003
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=11812
EU "SECURITY DOCTRINE" to be discussed in Washington DC
June 25
Doctrine: "get tough on terrorism"
..."proactive" (preventive...like ' Minority Report ' )
profiling... then presume
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1054966292730&p=1012571727088
European
Union to Monitor American Pro- life Groups (anti-abortion) --
June 1-2003
NewsMax.com's religion editor, Fr.
Michael Reilly, details the latest efforts by the European Union
to help stymie the pro-life movement.
The European Parliament has announced
that it will be monitoring American pro-life groups, with
EU officials charging that the American pro-life movement has
become too influential in the legislative body.
Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
reports that Poul Nielson, European Commissioner for Overseas
Development and Humanitarian Aid, has come out against what he
describes as a "small group of extremists.”
"The US anti-choice groups are powerful, well-funded
and determined.
They hold extreme views on religion and sexuality,"
Nielson complained.
(note:
meaning against the sin of homosexuality.
Christians are those who hate the sin and preach forgiveness
through Jesus Christ, because of love.)
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/6/1/161000
For more information on the EU - US relations please see www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/eu.html
also : www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/6bibi.html
Pope wants
new International Laws --July 2003
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2003/markr719-4.htm
The theme chosen by Pope John Paul for the
January 1, 2004 World Day of Peace is
"International Law, A Path for Peace,"
according to a communique released yesterday afternoon.
I believe it is called ever more to become exclusively a
law of peace conceived as a function of justice and
solidarity."
At a world level, international law is called to be an instrument
of justice that is capable of producing fruits of peace. The law
therefore has the duty of harmoniously regulating international
realities ... so that conflicts may be prevented without recourse
to arms
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=37750
Ever read
Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore ?
WORLD COURTS
part 2 at www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/wcourt2.html
Includes 3 Belgium courts:
1. EuroJust (european communities) ,
2. Belgium Civil Court ( International; War Crimes)
3. Belgium Court of Appeals
also : prisons, death penalty etc.
Salvation: www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm