They have all their own opinions on the withdrawal of
membership of the Philippines in the Rome Statute.
The Vice President was even quoted by media that the
President should think twice his decision to withdraw the Philippines
membership in the International Criminal Court saying that his emotions should
not be the guide in snubbing the ICC.
"Hind dapat daanin sa init ng ulo ang pagwi-withdraw o hindi,"
Robredo told reporters in the Philippine Military Academy in Fort Gregorio Del
Pilar in Baguio City. *
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| Lawyer Jude Sabio and Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (photo credit to Manila Times) |
The ICC with its noble reasons for its creation was turned
into a weapon that has targeted President Rodrigo Roa Duterte by his critics-
the yellow bleeding hearts that has not up to know acknowledge their defeat to
Duterte.
Manila Time columnist former Ambassador Rigoberto D. Tiglao
gives his opinion on the matter in his March 16, 2018 article titled “Duterte confiscates Yellows’ illegal weapon
– the ICC case” and has presented a well written piece in the whole of what is
happening- that is to the death of this biggest propaganda set into motion by
the Yellow cult.
For the
convenience, added knowledge, and full understanding of our readers we are
quoting in full the article that was written by Mr. Tiglao in this blog post.
THAT’S essentially what President Duterte has
done by announcing the Philippines’ withdrawal as a signatory to the treaty
that set up the International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution that has
become under fire for its racial bias and disregard for countries’ sovereignty.
The Yellow Cult, through its contract political
assassin Sen. Antonio Trillanes and his minion, obscure lawyer Jude Sabio, last
year transformed the ICC into its propaganda weapon against Duterte. Never
before has the Philippines’ image been so badly yet falsely tarnished in the
world as in the case filed by the Yellow Cult in the ICC against Duterte.
The Yellows filed charges against Duterte and 11
other government officials for alleged “mass murder” committed during the
president’s anti-crime and anti-drug campaign. The charges even preposterously
included alleged killings in Davao City more than a decade ago when Duterte was
mayor there. *
It was obviously entirely a propaganda gimmick.
The suit did not submit any single actual case of murder by the police—only
media reports, especially by the news website Rappler. Anybody filing a case
with the ICC would have realized that the case would take at the very least a
decade to resolve, way past the end of Duterte’s presidency, as in the case of
the Uganda and Colombia complaints that were filed in 2004, but which the ICC
is still investigating.
Does anyone really believe that Trillanes and
this hoodlum-looking Sabio filed the case for the sake of humanity, in order to
prevent inhumane pogroms in the future?
The ICC has been viewed as an institution
created solely by Europe, as its way of assuaging its guilt for its brutal
colonial regimes in Africa, which created failed states in Africa that have
become the breeding ground for ruthless tribal-based armies intent on wiping
out their tribal enemies.
All Africans
The 32 individuals who have so far been indicted in the ICC are from sub-Saharan Africa—the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Central African Republic, Mali, and Cote d’Ivoire, countries wracked by civil wars that had tribes fighting against each other to capture the state, and committing mass killings and rapes. *
In its 13 years of existence, and spending $1 billion,
the ICC has convicted only four persons, all black: three warlords from the
Congo and a Islamic fundamentalist from Mali, Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi.
C’mon now. Not by any kind of exaggeration or
stretch of imagination could the killings that have happened in Duterte’s war
against drugs be compared to the horrific massacres and pillage that occurred
in those godforsaken parts of Africa that are really barely emerging from the
Stone Age.
The ICC’s silence on the wars of aggression by
the US, the UK and its allies in Afghanistan and Iraq where their forces have
killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, and turned these countries into
failed states, has been deafening.
What the Yellows through Trillanes and Sabio
have done is really disgusting. This suit at the ICC in order to blacken
Duterte’s image, is an attempt to put the Philippine president with his war
against illegal drugs in the category of brutal African warlords, and the
Philippines to be viewed as a country as backward as failed states in that continent
ravaged by European colonialists. The two should be lynched.
Duterte recently claimed that he was given by an
unnamed foreign government a transcript of a phone conversation that the
Filipino-American billionaire Loida Nicolas-Lewis had with an unnamed official
about orchestrating an ICC investigation into Duterte. *
Handsomely paid
I certainly believe that allegation. I don’t think Trillanes and Sabio even knew that an ICC existed. The two would certainly not spend money to travel to The Hague in the Netherlands and to pay for legal fees from expensive lawyers to file their suit there. I suspect they were paid handsomely for their gruesome deed.
Many even doubt the qualifications of its chief
prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, who announced last month that she was examining
Sabio’s complaint against Duterte and his officials.
Other than being ICC deputy prosecutor from 2004
to 2012, Bensouda’s experience has been as Attorney General and Minister of
Justice as well as Chief Legal Advisor to the President and Cabinet of Gambia,
a tiny, poor country of two million in West Africa that was given its
independence by the United Kingdom only in 1965. Her master’s degree is in
international maritime law.
The current big powers of the world—the US,
China, and Russia—have refused to be signatories of the ICC because of its
arrogant declarations and powers that interfere with nations’ sovereignty.
Except for Cambodia, none of our Asean neighbors are signatories to the ICC. It
was the Aquino administration which passed the bill that supposedly ratified
our membership in the ICC, after hardly a debate in the Senate. *
But Duterte has pointed out that the treaty
organizing the ICC was never published in the Official Gazette nor in major
newspapers as required by law for any bill to be considered a law, and is
therefore essentially illegal within our country.
But the Yellows still used that illegal weapon.
Duterte is simply confiscating it. There should be heavy penalties imposed on
Trillanes and Sabio though.
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