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Jun. 22nd, 2003 04:17 pmIn order to join the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the United States must first amend the Fourth Amendment in order to be able to comply with the inspection provisions for nongovernment sites. No member of Congress from either party has so much as sent such an amendment to the appropriate committee during the entire period since the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention was first drafted.
In order to join the ICC, the Unites States must amend at least the Fifth Amendment, since the ICC's "complimentary" authority specifically includes the right to review acquittals by national courts so that war criminals cannot be let go by their own courts. No member of Congress from either party has so much as sent such an amendment to the appropriate committee during the entire period since the International Criminal Court treaty was first drafted.
Until at least one Congressman introduces such amendments, all complaints about the non-enactment of these treaties by the "Bush Administration" will be summarily dismissed. If there's not even a single Democrat in Congress willing to support the necessary changes to the U.S. Constitution, it's silly to blame the U.S.'s failures to ratify the treaties on a man who wasn't even in office when they were finalized and whose office has no role in the proceedure to amend the Constitution.
In order to join the ICC, the Unites States must amend at least the Fifth Amendment, since the ICC's "complimentary" authority specifically includes the right to review acquittals by national courts so that war criminals cannot be let go by their own courts. No member of Congress from either party has so much as sent such an amendment to the appropriate committee during the entire period since the International Criminal Court treaty was first drafted.
Until at least one Congressman introduces such amendments, all complaints about the non-enactment of these treaties by the "Bush Administration" will be summarily dismissed. If there's not even a single Democrat in Congress willing to support the necessary changes to the U.S. Constitution, it's silly to blame the U.S.'s failures to ratify the treaties on a man who wasn't even in office when they were finalized and whose office has no role in the proceedure to amend the Constitution.
