According to Rome Statute Art 31, Grounds for excluding criminal responsibility, Article 31 (1) (a), a person is not criminally responsible if, at the time of their conduct, the person suffers from a mental disease or defect that destroys that person’s capacity to appreciate the unlawfulness or nature of his or her conduct, or capacity to control his or her conduct to conform to the requirement of law [1]. If the idea is to exempt the US President from acts of War Crimes and Acts of Terror that he himself declares on line he has carried out using Rome Statue Art 31 or similar domestic legal provisions, then wouldn’t the US Congress be criminally liable for not restraining him even when he was clearly carrying out war crimes across countries without legal sanction for the criminal attacks. The question that remains unaddressed, isn’t the US Congress criminally liable for acts of the US President as they in spite of clear evidence from his self-declared explanation, reflections...
The United States Vs Global Peace; Iran Now, who next…? Act Now for Global Peace; De-dollarisation the way forward?
The illusion - American Democracy The World has seen many wars being fought against Nations across the globe by the United States under different US Presidents, the claim always being that the US was going to bring democratic governance to these sovereign countries and ensure freedom for people from the outside. No one asked what right the US had as but another country among 159 nations to invade another country in the name of misgovernance, an internal sovereign matter on the basis of US perception or perception of American Diaspora from different countries or more realistically on basis of the Perception of American companies and their need for natural resources. The United States has been having a free ride on global governance, with total disregard for laws both domestic and international. Recent even...