Joke 4
1. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo censured the International Criminal Court at a press conference Thursday (11 June 2020) after the White House announced President Donald Trump had signed an executive order authorizing economic sanctions and visa restrictions on ICC officials involved in investigating U.S. service members.
A blitz against the ICC by Pompeo and other cabinet officials Thursday came three months after the court announced it had approved an investigation into members of the U.S. military and CIA for possible war crimes in Afghanistan....
The U.S. never consented to the ICC's founding document, the Rome Statute, and so is not subject to its judgment, according to Pompeo....
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-slams-international-court-trump-approves-economic-sanctions/story?id=71198898
2. John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump's (former) national security adviser, threatened on September 10 (2018) that Washington would impose sanctions against judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they proceed with an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan by Americans.
"We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States," Bolton said. "We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and, we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans."....
Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/explainer-why-does-u-s-have-it-out-for-international-criminal-court-/29484529.html
3. It is laughable that the US “will not allow American citizens to be prosecuted by foreign bureaucrats" but it could pass legislations or laws anytime to convict foreign citizens, even top officials, in absentia for alleged crimes committed in their own countries.
Furthermore, the US regime could go to great lengths to stalk foreign citizens and order its allies to arrest and extradite them to the US while objecting to American citizens being tried in foreign courts.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-slams-iranian-death-sentence-american-accused-spying-article-1.1003728
4. Here I coin the term "pomparroo" for an individual, an organisation or a country that makes a mockery of the rule of law with its double standards and dual role of criminal and judge in a "pomparroo court".
