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International Criminal Law: A New World Order

2022-05-27T15:49:10.970Z


In Davos, a nice place in a neutral country, the 'Nato chief', the Federal Minister for War Economics and a few Western oligarchs were talking about the future division of the world. We are affected.


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We Germans once had a chancellor who was mighty proud of the fact that he didn't need a professor from Heidelberg to govern, but only "television and pictures."

Sensitive professors in the republic's centers of interpretation took offense at this and filed it in history under "bottles of beer."

Nowadays, in the century of the mimic-visually brooding art of government of a Friedrich M. and a Robert H., something like that is of course no longer possible: Here the heel height of the cheetah minister is personally measured by the elegant finance minister.

As you know, dear readers, this week the Federal Minister of Economics called for "a new world order".

You don't do it under that in Davos, especially not if you are the "most popular" German non-Chancellor and Frau von der Leyen whispered from the podium: "Ukraine must win this war," which was probably more of a humble request to the father of the gods, "Biden ' was an order to the state mentioned, although in both cases it has little to do with the impending famine among German pensioners or monkeypox.

Then, according to vdL, what is needed there (UKR) is a constitutional state, an independent judiciary, a somewhat less corrupt state administration, a new economy based on a five trillion dollar loan and the disempowerment of all »oligarchs«.

So big plans for blooming landscapes!

Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, who represented the Western Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Davos, added that "in principle" there was nothing against trade with China.

We were very relieved because we've been waiting for a couple of LED light bulbs for two months.

A video message from the American President with heartfelt thanks to the partners and congratulations to the American oil industry, which will bring in a few trillion dollars a year from the cancellation of NS2, was not recorded as far as I know.

News!

As you also know, last week a secret source of a scientist told him, and he in turn a guaranteed neutral investigative network, that in China, the land at the end of the inhabited world, there are large numbers of Uyghurs, people of different looks, different traditions and other religions than the majority of Han Chinese, Ukrainians and Germans, contrary to the assumption of the Federal Government, are not kept in integration centers and care facilities, where things are not always completely flawless.

In fact, as the Federal Foreign Minister found out for the first time, hundreds of thousands of people are being "re-educated" there and made into "real" Chinese with brutal methods that mock any rule of law and violate human rights.

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The Federal Foreign Minister "appeared" to be "deeply appalled" by this news, once again stunned and also outraged;

It has therefore, as one read, "demanded transparent clarification from Beijing."

Beijing must have been very afraid of that.

It currently has around 22 million inhabitants, i.e. as many as NRW, Berlin and Hamburg together.

It was functioning as a capital while the West still had 200 years to wait for Homer to be born.

The current Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs has held her office since December 8, 2021.

Since then, she has sat at least once a day for at least an hour in a "briefing" in which departments of the Ministry presented her with information and assessments of events in the world outside (area of ​​responsibility) that had been gathered in large quantities by her own and friends' secret services and be explained.

In addition, there are ten further appointments per day where information in particular is deepened.

In any case, it can be ruled out that the minister is aware that the re-education camps in the Chinese province of Xinjiang have been torturing, raping and coercing for years and that these measures are aimed specifically at the Uyghur ethnic minority, their culture and independence (identity). are to be completely wiped out by the will of the Chinese government, only recently learned from the newspaper.

The fact that the minister announced at the beginning of December that she said she was announcing "a tougher course on China" also speaks against this.

She brought "an import ban on products from the Chinese region of Xinjiang into play" and did not rule out a boycott of the Winter Olympics.

Well:

The fact that the Chinese people and the German winter sports industry could not be expected to do without German bobsledders was morally compensated for by bravely kicking out the Russian disabled athletes.

We can talk about the import ban as soon as we have settled accounts with Russia.

In any case, the claim that the Secretary of State was "deeply concerned" and shocked by last week's revelations is a very small part of the truth at best.

Statements by the Federal Foreign Office about how the minister "showed" herself are not bulletins about Ms. Annalena B.'s emotional state, but statements by the Federal Government about the state's knowledge and will.

And this state has known very well for many years who the Uyghurs are and what is happening to them.

In January, when Ms. B. spoke for the first time with Mr. Wang Yi, the Foreign Minister, the topic was "the further development of bilateral relations" (AA, January 20, 2022).

I guess it was more about live chips than dead kids.

peoples and law

Since the minister is known to come from international law, she may have become aware of Section 6 Paragraph 1 of the German Code of Crimes Against International Law (VStGB), which reads:

"Anyone with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a (...) religious or ethnic group as such,

1) kills a member of the group,

2) causes serious physical or mental harm (...) to a member of the group,

3) places the group under living conditions likely to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part

4) Measures imposed to prevent births within the group,

5) forcibly transfers a child from the group to another group,

shall be punished with life imprisonment.«

And § 1 of the VStGB makes it clear:

"This law applies to (...) offenses under Section 6 (...) even if the offense was committed abroad and has no connection to Germany."

As the majority of Germans are familiar with, the Federal Public Prosecutor General (GBA) is responsible for the prosecution of such crimes. § 6 to 12 VStGB have committed.

That's a good thing, because after all, Section 152 (1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure also applies to the GBA:

"(The public prosecutor's office) is ... obliged to intervene in relation to all prosecutable criminal offenses if there are sufficient factual indications."

Whether such indications exist is to be found out in a "preliminary examination procedure".

In relation to the genocide of the Uyghurs, that shouldn't be a problem here.

China, which like Ukraine has not signed the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC), probably does not want to prosecute the crimes for the next 500 years.

So you could definitely keep a few permanent positions at the GBA!

Near and far

Now some will say again: What's the point?

Genocide in China doesn't make war crimes in Ukraine any better, and the Ukrainians as such are closer to us than the Uyghurs, purely in terms of distance, but also because of the latter's uncomfortable way of life remote from Wokeness.

There is undoubtedly something to this argument, and as the poet says, one should first sweep in front of one's own door and, if everything is clean there, sweep one's own backyard.

But what is front door here, what is backyard, and what is sweeping?

Here you have to remember the "Tagesschau" report of July 28, 2021, which you, reader, will certainly remember as well as the ZDF report of July 14, 2021:

“In the past few weeks, the remains of nearly 1,000 bodies of Canadian Aboriginal children have been found, most in the province of British Columbia (…) In Canada, between 1830 and 1998, approximately 150,000 Aboriginal children were separated from their families and placed in institutions been.

In this way, the adjustment to the European immigrant society should be enforced.

(...) There were around 140 such institutions across the country (...) Many of the children in these schools were victims of abuse and sexual violence (...) About 4100 deaths are documented.

Many finds were only made through the use of ground-penetrating radar.

But the number of unreported cases is likely to be much higher.«

(Source: ARD "Tagesschau", July 28, 2021)

That was only nine months ago and uncomfortable.

Canada is a founding member of NATO, one of Germany's very best transatlantic friends, and you can't get more "the West" than Canada before you come out on the wrong side.

At the moment, however, I can no longer remember whether and how stunned and shocked the German federal government was in 2021 about the presumably time-barred human rights crimes against ethnic minorities by our Canadian friends.

Did the federal ministry responsible ask in Ottawa what the status of the investigation was?

In any case, we know that the

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA),

i.e. the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada, was signed by the European Council, the Commission and the Canadian government on October 30, 2016 and, after approval by the EU Parliament on October 21, September 2017 provisionally entered into force.

Final entry into force depends on ratification by all member states.

The draft of a ratification law (Bundestag printed paper 19/14783), introduced by MP Strack-Zimmermann and colleagues, begins with the beautiful words:

»Canada is an important strategic partner for Germany and Europe. We are united by close cooperation and shared values ​​and interests.«

(BT-Drs. 19/14783, p. 1)

knowledge and ignorance

Escapes are now no longer possible.

The "Uyghur Files" are on the market.

Readers know: nothing can be said against »files«, and if you don't know what a »file« is, that doesn't hurt.

Up to the "file" is all chatter, with "files" in the plural begins

real

knowledge.

This column is always about the last and highest, i.e. the right.

Some find this claim funny;

others nag and sneer in the dregs.

It doesn't matter: they are equally wrong.

The mark of the law is the law.

A little less dadaistic and to quote Niklas Luhmann: right can only come from right.

In the professorial and real world of legitimacy (justification): There is no "little bit" of law, and there is no law at will, mood, and party affiliation.

Of course, all of this is there as a claim;

but it has no intrinsic value.

The law has an inner logic that began a long time ago and is reflected in such apparently open terms as "proportionality" or "fairness" that were already known in the very old Beijing.

Banal and concrete: Anyone who claims that human rights violations are “intolerable” per se is either a manipulative gossip or a liar, or has to say what he concludes from that.

Who says,

is outside

of the law.

In individual cases, this can simply be the reason that, firstly, one wants something and, secondly, has the power to take it and claim that it is "right".

The problem here, as Caesars of all ages sooner or later found out, is always internal legitimation.

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Mr. Joseph Biden, whom we want to call "The West" here, has, as I learned from a newspaper, promised comprehensive military aid to the state of Taiwan, which is not a member of NATO and the "Big Seven", a clan of world oligarchs. should it ever be attacked by the state of China.

At the same time, Mr. Selenskyj said that potential attackers on the free Klitschko world would soon have to be eliminated earlier and prophylactically.

That sounds a bit like »Putin« propaganda and was ovated »standing« at the film festival just like the cold buffet, but let's not take that too seriously;

the man Volodymyr is only human.

So in the end we come to just one question again today.

It is: What rationality can we use to replace a morality that doesn't work?

What does international law tell us about this?

If one claims to speak about justice and be committed to it, one must do so;

otherwise one loses the very legitimacy on which one bases the power of one's actions.

If the appeal of states to the law does not hold up, it is not a question of personal "hypocrisy" or individual overconfidence.

Instead, a different, viable justification is required.

This is what the citizens of the "West," if that is to mean anything substantive, can expect and must demand of their states.

"Glotze und Bild" and "shows himself shocked" are, firstly, in terms of content, secondly, all well and good with Hempels behind the sofa, but thirdly, they are not even remotely suitable for the new world order - which, if we interpret the performance correctly, should simply be the old one.

Final question: How many sacrifices will the German people have to make in order to get through next winter without imports from Canada and China?

And if not: why not?

Source: spiegel

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