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UN’s New International Crimes and Clinton’s Executive Order 13107Why America Needs to Know What’s IN UN Treaties BEFORE Implementing them in American LawBy: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Almost unreported by America’s network news and national newspapers and news magazines, an alarming set of decisions have been made in recent years, especially in 1998, by the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. Most Americans have taken very little interest in what the United Nations is doing in its various conferences, especially one held in 1998 to set up an International Criminal Court to try war criminals. Most Americans think that genocide and war crimes are only things that happen somewhere else - never in America. Well, that depends on how the words are defined and a lot of words have been written, with the United States and its laws and sovereignty in mind, to bring American law into a totally new world of social law, written by people Americans have never heard of. That law, international law, is either already written, or in the process of being written now in such areas in creating a United Nations run “International Criminal Court.” It is urgent that Americans begin to understand what has, and is occurring, especially in light of President Clinton’s unannounced, and undiscussed, release of Executive Order 13107 on December 10, 1998, a mere week before the House of Representatives impeached him for perjury and obstruction of justice. His executive order 13107 is a threat to the U.S. Constitution and unless the public turns its attention to that, and other, threats to the Constitution, we may well discover ourselives living in a world we don’t recognize, a world in which our God-given rights, once protected by the U.S. Constitution, are declared a violation of International Law. The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies has issued a series of position papers which highlight some of the dangers ahead in documents with innocuous sounding names. This begins a special daily series to print some of them to help the reader understand why a group of law professors who attended the 1998 Rome United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. These papers were primarily designed for diplomats of other countries so they might better understand what is occuring at the United Nations in the guise of protecing “Human Rights.” |
