Hacker News Reader

Comment by verdverm | Hacker News Reader

Fortunately, the presidential pardon does not extend to the states who can still prosecute crimes. It only works for federal prosecution.

America will need a number of constitutional amendments to counter the last 40+ years, which I hope is peaking this administration.

View on HN

Nor does it cover extradition.

USA won't extradite their war criminals. Look how desperately Trump tries to fight down The Hague criminal court. They have a LOT of dirt to cover up here. I mean, just take the bombing of a school with girls in Iran - is that not a war crime? And that's just one of many more examples one could give; Trump denying data to Ukrainians via Starlink means he supports Putin's genocide.

Iran is actually fair game since it doesn't want to be part of the ICC. The same was true for Iraq and Afghanistan. There are no rights without obligations.

However, this isn't the case with Palestine, which is why Netanyahu has problems - and obviously Putin as well.

Israel and the US are also not part of the ICC. Yet they still call out "violations" of international law all the time. The ICC is just a colonialist tool used to beat down any trend towards sovereignty.

> Iran is actually fair game since it doesn't want to be part of the ICC.

The current American regime is hardly friendly to the ICC. Are they fair game too? (I'd likely say yes, they would strongly disagree!)

Disapointing to see your factually correct post downvoted.

Somebody must have a very thin skin!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com