[WikiEN-l] Wikipedians as war criminals

Tue Apr 15 22:45:13 UTC 2003

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

> I'm content to be considered a "criminal" by the ICC -- it has no 
> jurisdiction outside of countries which have signed its stupid treaty 
> -- and I never travel to those dumb places anyway. So there! Nyaah, nyaah.
>  
> I stay in the civilized world, where there is Rule By Law -- not 
> kangaroo courts making politicized decisions in favor of ruthless 
> dictatorships.

Shades of not invented here?
 From what I read & hear, the general perception in Europe is that it's 
the US who's at fault for refusing to sign up to (yet another) 
international effort.
Ed, please keep your politics off-list, especially at a time when the US 
is only too happy to impose its will by force without the backing of the 
UN. At least the ICC has that.