Democratic Underground - This tactic could have been predicted...

In fact a few have predicted a certain blowback effect from using/abusing human rights tribunals:

"IS THE ICC (INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT) AN ANSWER TO ABUSES OF HAGUE 'TRIBUNAL'?
- An exchange with a reader

by Jared Israel

from a most interesting article that questions certain weaknesses in an ICC approach to international crime

"While that makes the ICC harder to attack, it does not necessarily make it better than the Hague and Rwanda 'tribunals'. The function of the Hague 'tribunal,' for example, is to a) punish Yugoslav leaders who have resisted the New World Empire's efforts to break up Yugoslavia and to b) provide a compliant media with sound bites, images, and judicial-sounding statements to indoctrinate tens of millions of people with the false impression that the Yugoslav resistance is racist, anti-humanitarian, etc. But with the ICC, just as with the Hague 'tribunal,' the prosecutors will in fact represent the great powers. How can it be otherwise? Just as, since the demise of the USSR, the UN has come largely under the domination of the New World Empire, so the staff of the ICC will be dominated by the covert apparatus of the Empire, including NGOs funded directly or indirectly by the Empire, and supposed humanitarian groups, like Human Rights Watch which, if you examine their directors, you will find are dominated by the US foreign policy elite. This Imperial-dominated court will have the media's ear, whereas target countries will be much weaker, perhaps already demonized in the Western media, attacked by pro-Imperial forces from within, lacking the resources and media connections to counter campaigns of accusation and innuendo aimed at proving they are the "latest Nazis led by the latest Hitler." Thus a legally constituted body such as the ICC will, I am afraid, be used for precisely the same purposes as the Hague 'tribunal.' The main difference: instead of being limited to Yugoslavia, the ICC will be able to single out any country that dares to resist Imperial plans. For example, should the Empire use some group - with grievances real, or imagined, or both - as a wedge to destroy some nation, covertly encouraging terrorist actions, while publicly calling for 'dialogue,' and should that nation's leaders think of resisting, the threat of indictment can be employed to make them think twice. And once some leaders or soldiers or whomever are indicted and perhaps destroyed by the ICC, the threat won't have to be actually made in order to be effective. Thus we have judicial terror effecting Imperial goals. "
more
with some great links to this thorny issue at the bottom
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/schmitz.htm

Food for Thought...
any system of justice will really be only as good as the people administering it...

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