Re:Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
by torstenvl on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:15PM
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The ICJ handles dispute between states. It has no authority to prosecute the soldiers of any country.
You are, perhaps, referring to the ICC, established by the Rome Statute - to which the United States is not a party.
The issue of whether the United States respects international law is not likely to be conducive to productive conversation on HN. It is also beside the point of this specific topic.
Re:Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
by ru999gol on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:36AM
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its not productive conversation with any american, as you are all brainwashed anyways by your corrupt government and media. As far as I'm concerned any american is complicit in war crimes.
Re:Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
by dang on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:03PM
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Please don't post flamebait here or engage in nationalistic flamewars. Yes there are huge challenges to conversation across deep divides—but the site guidelines require that we make good-faith efforts to overcoming those challenges or—if you can't or don't want to do that—simply not to post.
International law is largely a myth due to the extreme power differential between the United States and most other countries. The only hard and fast rule is that might makes right.