“The vast majority find the thought of a foreign judicial institution of dubious repute, the ICC, which has been rejected by the major powers of the world”
WHAT we witnessed in the Philippines in the past week was a national uprising against the government of Bongbong Marcos and its co-conspirators, the US Deep State, its proxies and the ICC.
From my personal communications with pro and non-Duterte contacts across the country, the extent of the outrage reaches 90 percent of the people of the Visayas and Mindanao and up to 70 percent of the people of Luzon.
The vast majority find the thought of a foreign judicial institution of dubious repute, the ICC, which has been rejected by the major powers of the world and particularly the African Union, many of whose members have been known to be objectionable to the Western Powers, have been selectively persecuted by it.
But has been allowed by the widely unpopular Bongbong Marcos government to victimize one of the most beloved national leaders of other country – former President Rodrigo R. Duterte.
The patently illegal arrest conducted by the chief of the PNP’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group General Nicolas Deloso Torre III on board a plane upon return of President Duterte from an election campaign tour of Filipino workers in Hong Kong violated all standard procedures of presentation of warrant of arrest, right to counsel.
It was conducted under the absolutely untenable claim of the jurisdiction of the ICC that has been invalidated by the Philippine withdrawal from the ICC which took effect in March 2019.
The ICC will do what it did to justify its existence, gladly engaging with the Filipino US Deep State chihuahuas like Trillanes and Gary Alejano while serving the pleasures of the ICC geopolitical masters.
A paper published by the Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies (ACPSSII) describes the ICC roots, and the compromising sources of its funding:
The ICC was established in 2002 and functions as a court of last resort ‘to investigate and prosecute individuals for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity when national courts are unable or unwilling to do so.’
So, the ICC exercises sovereignty over sovereign states that accept its jurisdiction, and this is why self-respecting states such as the U.S., Russia, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and 68 other UN members are not party to the ICC.
“Many states are compelled to join the ICC due to political and economic pressures and many articles and books have been written about it, such as “Is the ICC Targeting Africa Inappropriately?” or the book ‘The ICC: A Political Tool? How the Rome Statute is Susceptible to the Pressures of More Power States.’
The article ‘The evolution of funding for the International Criminal Court: Budgets, donors and gender justice’ by Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm &Kirsten Ainley states, ‘… the patterns of funding seen at the ICC support the claim that the Court remains, to a significant extent, a tool of powerful states.’
In 2017, the African Union called for the mass withdrawal of member states from the ICC. South Arica, Gambia, and Burundi have withdrawn but Gambia has rejoined.
The Philippines withdrew from the ICC in March 2018 after purely politicized efforts by anti-Duterte elements brought spurious issues to the ICC and it remains to be beyond the jurisdiction of the ICC to this day – despite this fact the anti-Duterte forces used the corrupt PNP to whisk President Duterte out of the country to The Hague.
The injustices which the ICC has committed against national leaders uncooperative with the Western Powers are many, among the first was Yugoslavia’s President Slobodan Milosevic who resisted the balkanization of his country by US President Clinton as a stage in the encirclement of Russia.
Yugoslavia and its center Serbia were bombed mercilessly by NATO, Milosevic captured and charged for genocide, died in detention an innocent victim of US aggression.
History eventually proved the innocence of Milosevic as many of the claims of genocide against him were proven to be US disinformation.
“The ICC issued warrants of arrest for Muammar Gaddafi to buttress then French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama’s justification for the war on Libya.
“Gaddafi as eventually murdered by US backed terrorists.
“Fifteen years after the war President Sarkozy was exposed to have started the war to stop Gaddafi from revealing Libya’s € 50-million election donation to Sarkozy which continued after Sarkozy became president. These are a few examples of a long list of geopolitical victims of the ICC.”