Iowa is onboard for H.R. 4654, is your state?

[Dangus]

After lobbying my representatives, I have finally recieved a reply stating that they are clearly and wholly in support of H.R. 4654, the American Servicemember's Protection Act of 2000. This bill is currently sitting off in a corner not being acted upon. This is your chance, pounce on it, tell your legiscritters to vote for this bill, which would take the teeth out of the UN(an urgently needed action), unless we choose to help them on our own terms. It will also stop the UN from prosecuting our troops, which we are quite capable of doing ourselves.

Our reps are behind this bill, now lets see how many other states we can get behind it. Be sure and report here if any of you have any luck, we can tally up results ourselves.

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I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist

The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me

 

[Randy B]

Everybody should urge their congressman to support H.R. 1146, The American Sovereignty Restoration Act. This bill would get the USA completely out of the UN. It would also withdraw diplomatic immunity for UN headquarters personnel. Ask your congressman to support and cosponsor this bill. Please write and call ASAP.

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Stop The New World Order!

 

[Dangus]

The UN is not a nation, they hold no ground, we do not elect them. They are pirates for "peace", going around hijacking the fundemental ideas of nations and superimposing their own and not taking no for an answer. They have no concept of the idea of checks and balances and their system doesn't even employ them to the meager extent our system does. They must be stopped. We are their strongarm, their big brother which does their bullying. Let them stand on thier own, and see how well their agendas really work without our backing, see how great all their test subject countries work out.
The UN had a great chance to not be the root of the problem, but instead they went another route. They could have been what the Red Cross always lacked the funding and logistics to be, a peaceful beacon of information, pointing out problems in the world and respectfully considering those problems and then asking the world to make it's own decisions about what to do, but they have totally overstepped that important role they could have played and have tried to become the government for every little place on earth that doesn't have a government, the high seas(not like they've stopped any piracy), countries broken down into civil war, probably even antarctica...

This bill protects our servicemen from being forced to wear those blue helmets and fight under an imaginary nation's flag. It is about time this bill came up, and now we must give it our full attention. The UN is just as much our idealogical enemy as the Soviets ever were, probably even moreso.

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I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist

The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me

 

[Oatka]

Here's just a clip from the preamble:

A BILL
To protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States Government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not a party.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2000'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:

(1) On July 17, 1998, the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, meeting in Rome, Italy, adopted the `Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.' The vote on adoption of the Statute was 120 in favor to 7 against, with 21 countries abstaining. The United States voted against final adoption of the Rome Statute.

(2) As of May 30, 2000, 96 countries had signed the Rome Statute and 10 had ratified it. Pursuant to Article 126 of the Rome Statute, the Statute will enter into force on the first day of the month after the 60th day following the date that the 60th country deposits an instrument ratifying the Statute.

(3) Since adoption of the Rome Statute, a Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court has continued to meet regularly to draft documents to implement the Rome Statute, including Rules of Procedure and Evidence, definitions of Elements of Crimes, and a definition of the Crime of Aggression.

(4) During testimony before the Congress, the lead United States negotiator, Ambassador David Scheffer stated that the United States could not sign the Rome Statute because certain critical negotiating objectives of the United States had not been achieved. As a result, he stated: `We are left with consequences that do not serve the cause of international justice.'

(5) Ambassador Scheffer went on to tell the Congress that: `Multinational peacekeeping forces operating in a country that has joined the treaty can be exposed to the Court's jurisdiction even if the country of the individual peacekeeper has not joined the treaty. Thus, the treaty purports to establish an arrangement whereby United States armed forces operating overseas could be conceivably prosecuted by the international court even if the United States has not agreed to be bound by the treaty. Not only is this contrary to the most fundamental principles of treaty law, it could inhibit the ability of the United States to use its military to meet alliance obligations and participate in multinational operations, including humanitarian interventions to save civilian lives. Other contributors to peacekeeping operations will be similarly exposed.'.

(6) Any Americans prosecuted by the International Criminal Court will, under the Rome Statute, be denied many of the procedural protections to which all Americans are entitled under the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution, including, among others, the right to trial by jury, the right not to be compelled to provide self-incriminating testimony, and the right to confront and cross-examine all witnesses for the prosecution.

(7) American servicemen and women deserve the full protection of the United States Constitution when they are deployed around the world to protect the vital national interests of the United States. The United States Government has an obligation to protect American servicemen and women, to the maximum extent possible, against criminal prosecutions carried out by United Nations officials under procedures that deny them their constitutional rights.

(8) In addition to exposing American servicemen and women to the risk of international criminal prosecution, the Rome Statute creates a risk that the President and other senior elected and appointed officials of the United States Government may be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court. Particularly if the Preparatory Commission agrees on a definition of the Crime of Aggression, senior United States officials may be at risk of criminal prosecution for national security decisions involving such matters as responding to acts of terrorism, preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and deterring aggression. No less than American servicemen and women, senior officials of the United States Government deserve the full protection of the United States Constitution with respect to official actions taken by them to protect the national interests of the United States.

The rest is at:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query



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