After all, there is precisely zero chance of either of them being indicted on war crimes charges and they know it. keep to the Fen Causeway
And the US is not a party to the ICC anyway.
Universal jurisdiction has been under assault since the Pinochet arrest, because we know what team our elites bat for. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
The International Criminal Court can only indict once it is clear that the home country cannot ot will not prosecute.
Also, the US is not party to the ICC so the ICC cannot prosecute. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
The question I've asked is If the President does his make it all go away pardon magic, how does that affect international extradition warrants? Say for example Germany has one of its citizens grabbed and mistreated, under the indirect orders of Bush. Now according to the UN convention against torture, which the US has ratified if you have an extradition treaty covering anything, then extradition for torture is automatically included in it. What happens when George gets dragged up before the courts, after he's stepped down? when he gets up before the courts, how does the one size fits all pardonomatic work against that? or will a foreign country one of whose citizens has been mistreated have to get justice by proxy for the average citizen. Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
But this would only apply if he travels outside the U.S. As far as extradition from the U.S. itself is concerned, it will be no different from extradition for terrorism (Luis Posada Carriles), i.e., it will be ignored. There's not much the other country can do, beyond abrogating the extradition treaty (which Chavez may do some day, if he's looking for another way to thumb his nose at the Americans).
The effort to calibrate and to reconcile national GAAPs by BCBS treaties have't harmonized product characteristics despite 20 years of negotiation. Why? Financial corporations and institutional investors rely on arbitrage (asymetries of information and supply) to obtain profits.
Arbitrage is a socially acceptable (normative) business practice and that is the fundamental problem with resource and financial capitalist ideology. The "mother" of suckers, if you will, is the residual political power of knowing a reality that is obscure or invisible to one's counterpart: acting out a lie. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
