Fwd: [Seattle-editorial] feature proposal

[jonathan lawson]

Very good! I give this thumbs up.

The first step to your good idea will just be to post the longer version to 
the newswire. Then once your feature proposal gets athe needed additional 
approval, it can be linked to your newswire article..make sense?

many thanks
Jonathan

So,At 11:51 AM 8/30/2002 -0700, Ngaio Robertson Halsey wrote:

>Alright.
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>I still like all the information I have below.  REgardless if it is too 
>long, I
>think it's important and I would like to include it on the newswire (the
>posting bit to the left) and have a link at the bottom of the feature that
>leads to it.  Here is a shorter re-write.
>What do you think?
>
>Ngaio Halsey
>ngaio at riseup.net
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>Title: East Timor and US sign treaty
>Subtitle: US Government Attempts to Further Undermine Global Justice with
>Article 98
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>On August 26th, East Timor became the third country, after Israel and Romania
>to sign Article 98, a treaty with the United States pledging that neither 
>will
>prosecute each other’s soldiers in the International Criminal
>Court<www.globalpolicy.org/wldcourt/> in The Hague.
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>The US government disputes the impartialness of the court with claims that
>other countries, envious of the United States’s power, will attempt to abuse
>the ICC and unfairly target US soldiers for prosecution of war crimes.
>Supporters of the ICC, claim that the guidelines drawn up for the ICC will
>prevent this from happening.
>
>The International Criminal Court was born July 1st, 2002.  So far, 76 of the
>original 139 signees<www.iccnow.org/html/country.html>, have ratified their
>memberships.  The ICC is similar to, but a permanent replacement of,
>international tribunals<www.hrw.org/wr2k1/intro/intro15.html>, meant to try
>genocide and other crimes against humanity.  The ICC intends only to try
>individuals when their home states fail to take adequate disciplinary actions
>themselves.
>
>To read more, go to








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>----- Forwarded message from Ngaio Robertson Halsey <ngaio at riseup.net> -----
>Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:57:46 -0700
>     From: Ngaio Robertson Halsey <ngaio at riseup.net>
>Reply-To: Ngaio Robertson Halsey <ngaio at riseup.net>
>  Subject: [Seattle-editorial] feature proposal
>       To: editorial at seattle.indymedia.org
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>Hello IMC
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>This is my first time proposing a feature..so please be patient.
>Unfamiliar with how to create links, I simply left the websites in bracketts.
>Also, I didn't attach a picture..I just remembered now that I might want one.
>Suggestions on a graphic would be welcome.  I am not sure if I am still on 
>the
>editorals list, so if you wish to respond, include my e-mail address as well.
>Thank you.
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>Ngaio Halsey
>ngaio at riseup.net
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>Title: East Timor Signs Treaty with US
>Subtitle: US Attempts to Furthur Undermine Global Justice
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>On August 26th, East Timor became the third country, after Israel and Romania
>to sign
>Article 98, a treaty with the United States pledgng that neither will 
>prosecute
>each other’s soldiers in the International Criminal
>Court<www.globalpolicy.org/wldcourt/> in the Hague.
>
>Though once a proponent for the ICC, the United States, now under the Bush
>administration, has “un-signed” a 
>treaty<www.iccnow.org/html/icc19990712.html>
>that signals an intention to ratify the US’s membership into the 
>International
>Criminal Court.  The US government defends itself with claims that other
>countries, envious of the United States’s power, will attempt to abuse the 
>ICC
>and unfairly target US soldiers for prosecution of war crimes.  Supporters of
>the ICC, claim that the guidelines drawn up for the ICC will prevent this 
>from
>happening.  Suspicions have arisen that the US is more fearful of their 
>leaders
>being prosecutable for war crimes than actual soldiers.
>
>Still wary of the possibilty that US soldiers may be tried under the newly
>formed International Criminal Court, the US government jeopardized dozens of
>peace-keeping missions<www.globalpolicy.org/security/peacekpg> by threatening
>to withdraw all US support unless the ICC granted special immunity from
>prosecution to all US militray personnel.
>
>In mid-July, after three weeks of negotiations, the US and the UN agreed to
>suspend any action on either side for a year.  But since then, the US has
>actively persued countries internationally with a treaty pledeging that 
>neither
>country will send each other’s soldiers to the ICC.    Countries, refusing to
>sign, declare their intention to stand firmly behind the ideal of equal
>treatment under global law.
>
>The International Criminal Court was born July 1st, 2002.  So far, 76 of the
>original 139 signees<www.iccnow.org/html/country.html>, have ratified their
>memberships.  The ICC is similar to, but a permanent replacement of,
>international tribunals<www.hrw.org/wr2k1/intro/intro15.html>, meant to try
>genocide and other crimes against humanity.  The ICC intends only to try
>individuals when their home states fail to take adequete disciplinary actions
>themselves.
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