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Trump a parlé depuis la tribune des Nations Unies.
Et qu'a-t-il dit, le grand homme ? Qu'il faut que tous les pays quittent la Cour pénale internationale. Immédiatement. Parce que la CPI, cette institution qu'il qualifie de "roupie", de "groupe de gens maléfiques" et d'anti-américaine, ose s'en prendre à des soldats américains. Et, avant tout, à son ami Netanyahu, visé par un mandat d'arrêt pour crimes de guerre et crimes contre l'humanité.
Mais Trump ne s'arrête pas aux mots. Il a passé la vitesse supérieure. Son administration prépare des sanctions d'une ampleur inédite contre la CPI. On ne parle plus de sanctions contre quelques juges, non, on parle de sanctions contre l'institution tout entière. Des mesures qui interdiraient la plupart des transactions avec la Cour et, surtout, l'empêcheraient d'effectuer la moindre transaction en dollars.
Vous avez bien lu. La justice internationale, parce qu'elle a osé s'attaquer à un criminel de guerre, va être coupée du système financier mondial. Parce que le dollar, ce n'est pas juste une monnaie. C'est une arme. Une arme de destruction massive, économique. Et Trump vient de la braquer sur la CPI. Pas un missile. Juste un décret. Pourquoi s'embêter avec des bombes quand on peut asphyxier un tribunal avec des sanctions bancaires ?
Le message est limpide : les criminels de guerre, tant qu'ils sont des alliés, sont intouchables. Les juges qui osent les poursuivre, eux, seront traités comme des cibles. On ne juge pas les amis de l'Oncle Sam. On ne touche pas à u boucher de Gaza. On ne touche pas aux soldats américains. La justice, ce n'est bon que pour les autres, les perdants, les pays du Sud.
Alors oui, un "groupe de gens maléfiques". C'est exactement ce que Trump a dit. Il a juste oublié de préciser qu'il parlait des juges. Pas de ceux qui bombardent des hôpitaux et affament des enfants. Des juges qui font leur travail. Le vrai mal, il est assis au-dessus d'eux, dans le siège de l'ONU, en train de craquer une allumette sur le droit international.
Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.
“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.
Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.
Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.
And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It��s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.
What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.
We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.
Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.
So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.
We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.
So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”
Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.
Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
Charge violente de la police à la manifestation contre la loi « permis de tuer » à Paris.
Alors que le cortège approchait de la place de la Nation, la CI crée des tensions en se faisant plus visible avant de charger violemment le cortège.
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Shoutout to the people of Ireland! 🇮🇪