{"id":1019,"date":"2011-05-29T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2011-05-29T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T22:26:02","slug":"the-futility-of-the-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"The futility of the ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court unduly ratcheted up the civil war in Libya by bringing charges against the Libyan government prior to the conclusion of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC is a hopeless mess.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The idea was based on the general notion that if only there had been a world court in the 1930s, Hitler never would have been able to commit genocide.\u00a0\u00a0 It is largely funded by the EU, and the United States is not a cooperating country (yet).<\/p>\n<p>Since its creation in 2002, the ICC has only closed one case where they brought charges, and that was because the person died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Criminal_Court\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Criminal_Court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(scroll down near the bottom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court unduly ratcheted up the civil war in Libya by bringing charges against the Libyan government prior to the conclusion of the conflict. The ICC is a hopeless mess.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The idea was based on the general notion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=1019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-war-and-not-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}