Crumpet,
I shall continue to waste my time reading this thread, because I like alovelylively debate.
lol....It always irks me when people, who do little or nothing to improve the lot of their community, criticize organizations like the ICC who are trying their best, often in impossibly difficult circumstances to help those who are suffering miserably and without a voice.
The UN has unfairly been the brunt of neo-con ignorance for many years, and most XJW's carry a contempt for the organization picked up from shallow arguments recalled from the AWAKE! magazine. The UN has great weaknesses, as I have noted, but it is also a vehicle that in its history has proved itself a great benefit to millions of people who have been fed and protected by its Blue Berets.
A very close friend of mine served in Yugoslavia with the UN and one day while driving alone, and unarmed in a UN jeep spotted two Serbians about to gun down a Croat. He stopped his jeep and physically placed himself between their guns and the Croat.... for THREE hours until they backed away. The Irish UN contingent were even more courageous and daily risked their lives in Yugoslavia to protect civilians and bring medicine, food and pyschiatric help to the locals. The Blue Beret needs to be respected in order for these courageous volunteers to have some authority where they are stationed. The sneering, from the safety of an office chair and keyboard, that we see on threads like this is disgusting imo.
Some ICC lawyers have found their names on a hit-list, one has to have twenty-four hour protection, because the criminals that they have in their sights have singled them out for handling.
To sneer and diminish the part that these people are playing to protect the more unfortunate in society is out of order.
HS