ZGram - 5/5/2002 - "Look who's running scared!"

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  ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

May 5, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I came home late today from an outing with a small group of 
supporters and was looking for a short piece of good news to give my 
readers hope - and guess what?

Who would have thought that it would come to this - now?!  Enjoy the 
little gem below. 

Ernst Z=FCndel's prediction:  "We are seeing the beginning of the end 
of globalism in the item below - perversely or perhaps providentially 
brought about by the very forces which, for decades if not centuries, 
have clamored for it most!  The Internationalists, to put it 
euphemistically, have turned nationalist out of fear that they will 
be caught in their own net!

"If a US adminstration can 'unsign' and renounce such important 
international treaties and agreements, they can renounce any others, 
like their joining the UN, for instance - and if the US can do it, so 
can anybody else!  I say that the house of cards is about to collapse 
- and isn't it ironic that a country like Palestine, so poor and so 
defenseless and so unbelievably abused, should have played such a 
valiant part."

Enjoy!


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US to shun deal on international criminal court

AFP / MAY 5, 2002

NEW YORK: The Bush administration has decided to renounce formally 
any involvement in a treaty setting up an international criminal 
court and is expected to declare that the signing of the document by 
Clinton administration is no longer valid.

The "unsigning" of the treaty, which is expected to be announced on 
Monday, will be a decisive rejection by the White House of the 
concept of a permanent tribunal designed to prosecute individuals for 
genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes, the New York 
Times reported.

The administration has long argued that the court has the potential 
to create havoc for the United States, exposing US soldiers and 
officials overseas to capricious and mischievous prosecutions.

"We think it was a mistake to have signed it," an administration 
official was quoted by the newspaper as saying.

"We have said we will not submit it to the Senate for ratification."

The renunciation, officials said, also means the United States will 
not recognise the court's jurisdiction and will not submit to any of 
its orders.

In addition, other officials said, the US will simultaneously assert 
that it will not be bound by the Vienna Convention on the Law of 
Treaties, a 1969 pact that outlines the obligations of nations to 
obey other international treaties.

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(SOURCE:  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=3D894721=
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Thought for the Day:

"It is as if the Devil has run out of steam."

(Ernst Z=FCndel)