Should this condition be met, the Court can then have jurisdiction over acts of aggression committed a year after the amendments have been ratified.
Wars of aggression (Iraq, Libya) are not declared, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is violated routinely, torture and unlawful imprisonment (euphemistically called "detention") are the stuff of media exposés that go nowhere.
(For more, read: Global Campaign for Ratification and Implementation of the Kampala Amendments on the Crime of Aggression).
International criminal law is still in its infancy, and to advance it the UK must ratify the amendment that will make the crime of aggression triable by the ICC.
New York law includes statutes on harassment, but protection afforded under the First Amendment can make it difficult to prosecute electronic aggression, said Audrey Rogers, an associate professor at Pace Law School who has written on Internet-related crime.
His plea — he agreed to serve 43 months in prison for the leak charge — might seem to vindicate the prosecutorial aggression of the Justice Department, except for the part about wiping its feet on the First Amendment in the process.
Donald Ferencz is the founder and convenor of the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression and a co-organizer of the worldwide campaign to ratify the 2010 Kampala amendments to the ICC Statute.
Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.
