Chertoff says U.S. threatened by international law

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17445714.htm

Chertoff says U.S. threatened by international law

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A top Bush administration official on Friday said the European Union, the United Nations and other international entities increasingly are using international law to challenge U.S. powers to reject treaties and protect itself from attack.

"International law is being used as a rhetorical weapon against us," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal appellate judge, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative policy group.

Chertoff cited members of the European Parliament in particular as harboring an "increasingly activist, left-wing and even elitist philosophy of law" at odds with American practices and interests.

But he said the same pattern could be seen in the policies of the United Nations and other international bodies.

[stepnw1f]

1. Actually, It's Chertoff and the Bush Administration That is Feeling Threatened

Sorry buddy, but your problems no longer belong to the US.

[libodem]

2. Oh hell yeah!!!!!!!!

depraved criminals deserve international attention

[partylessinOhio]

3. Hallelujah! That's a good thing in my book.

To challenge U.S. powers to reject treaties and protect itself from attack may bring about peace in the world.

[texpatriot2004]

4. Chertoff is lying as usual. He's threatened and his buddies are

threatened.

[Bitwit1234]

5. How about the WTO

You know bush and this country belongs to that. And correct me if I am wrong...didn't the world come together and prosecute the Nazi's for their WWIIcrimes.

[MadMaddie]

6. Isn't that what the Nazi'a said to their citizens?

[leesa]

7. Fascists don't like the rule of law. Those "activist war crimes judges', eh?

Noose getting a little tight around your stringy little neck Chertoff?

[stevedeshazer]

8. S_D says: International laws threatened by U.S.

What a bunch of bullshit Chertoff is trying to pass off.

[damntexdem]

9. Hey, Mikey C., you know damn good and well that ...

the criminal administration for which you are a toady is threatened by AMERICAN laws, if they were ever enforced!

[lovuian]

10. Their arguments aren't going to hold up

are they???

[struggle4progress]

11. "Damn! Anti-torture fanatics chewing at my butt! Don't you hate it when that happens?"

[Theduckno2]

12. International law is a threat to criminals, Mr. Chertoff.

And those criminals would be eh, eh, eh, YOU! This is what the Bush Administration has brought to your doorstep.

Rhetorical weapons are easily wielded against the unethical, misguided, intellectually deficient wrongdoers of the Bush Administration.

There is little rhetoric (other than fear-mongering) to help those who speak of "preemptive warfare", "illegal enemy combatants", "rendition" and "opting out of treaties" just to name a few.

I suppose people like you(neocons) would prefer a lawless world, where might makes right. Too bad.

The only other thing I can think to say to Mr. Chertoff is; Waaah, Waaah, Waaah. :cry:

[drb]

13. "I'm being threatened by these unreasonable laws!!" said...

...the robber running from the liquor store with a bag of stolen money.

[Subdivisions]

14. This is good! It shows us what our MSM fails to show us and that

is the TRUTH!

I think it's good to know that other countries are challenging the current administrations tactics.

There's a rather naive segment of American society that consider making things right is retreat or all-out defeat. If it's either, so be it. I don't care if we "lose" the so-called "War in Iraq". It would be different if it were a just and noble cause, but it's not. It's a fucking corporate profit engine. GOD DAMN IT!

My cousin has been over there twice and by the grace of God she's made it back from both Baghdad and Fallujah and word on the street is that the 3rd Infantry Division from Ft Stewart, Georgia, is supposed to be going back which means she'll be right back over there. I DON'T WANT HER TO DIE FOR THESE TREASONOUS BASTARDS!

[fooj]

15. F*ck Chertoff.

[Binka]

16. Cheney, Chertoff, & Mc Connell All Speaking At The Klan Meeting?

Did the Federalists show up in 800 thread per inch Egyptian cotton?

[xchrom]

18. the people in new orleans feel threatened by chertoff.

[radfringe]

17. !!!!OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

Chertoff also cited press reports of European privacy activists trying to constrain U.S. use of financial information obtained in Washington's war on terrorism

OUTRAGEOUS - how dare the eurpoeans try to protect their own privacy, when we Americans don't have privacy!!!!!! :sarcasm:

[depakid]

19. To The Hague

Should be the rallying cry for the international community. America has become a rogue state, and the rest of the world is finally rising up. If any nation thinks that America- or the majority of Americans are going to play by the rules and treat them fairly as resources become scarcer, they're deluding themselves.

[Up2Late]

20. There they go, projecting again.

Hey MC! STFU! :mad:

[dbt]

21. Return with us now to those Thrilling Days Of 1969!

All you could fucking HEAR from the Republic Party back then was Lawnorda! Them godlesscommie war protestors needed a good dose of Lawnorda. The thing that would make Amerika great again was a return to Lawnorda. This country was founded on Lawnorda.

The Rule Of Law. No man is ABOVE the Law, yada yada yada. Lawnorda was all we ever HEARD out of Spiro T. Agnew and Edwin Meese and Richman Nixxon and a hundred beer-bellied Southern sheriffs while they turned the water hoses and the dogs loose on Uppity N*****s.

Reckon Chertoff needs him a good dose of LAW right now?

:rofl:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

PS: Why does our Homeland $ecurity Tsar look like SATAN?

[sattahipdeep]

22. skullduggery

Arnold I. Burns and L. Paul Bremer.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061109/20061109005434.html?.v=1

Arnold Burns:

Perhaps the most attention he attracted came after the exposure in
November 1986 of the Iran-contra affair.

According to a report by Congressional committees, Mr. Burns was
asked by Mr. Meese to insure that the White House offices of Lieut.
Col. Oliver L. North and Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter were sealed.
But Mr. Burns forgot and did not make the call until the following day,
the report said.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DD1531F933A05750C0A96E948260

Paul Bremer:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=Arnold+I.+Burns+Bremer&as_q=Iran-contra+affair&btnG=Search%A0within%A0results

[TankLV]

23. That's rich! The criminals complaining about OTHERS "insisting" that the LAW be followed...

Suck to be a WAR CRIMINAL, huh dracula?

Thank god for these European countries - we may need to call on them like they once called on us to save them during WWI & WWII...

[triguy46]

24. someone tell him they lost and to stop the B.S.

TERRA!!!! Sorry, game, set, match. Time t ofind a comfy rock to crawl under.

[IntiRaymi]

25. Chertoff just needs to work on his English grammar.

Us 'R threatened by International Law?

or

We are threatened by International Law?

[anotherdrew]

26. we are a few months away from the next civil war if you ask me n/t