Whatever Happened to the Rule of Law?
Once upon a time George H. W. Bush uttered the words: “Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we’ve known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak.”[1]
Yet the “New World Order” is far removed from this glowing ideal. The “New World Order”, as is being currently practiced in Gaza and as was amply demonstrated during the “Covid crisis”, is the “rule of the jungle”; it’s the embodiment of icy, cruel, inhuman barbarity.
During the “covid crisis” nearly all governments ignored or simply trampled on the Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
These include:
“No limitation shall be applied in an arbitrary manner.”
“Whenever a limitation is required in the terms of the Covenant to be “necessary,” this term implies that the limitation: (a) is based on one of the grounds justifying limitations recognized by the relevant article of the Covenant; (b) responds to a pressing public or social need; (c) pursues a legitimate aim; and (d) is proportionate to that aim. Any assessment as to the necessity of a limitation shall be made on objective considerations.”
“In applying a limitation, a state shall use no more restrictive means than are required for the achievement of the purpose of the limitation.”
“The burden of justifying a limitation upon a right guaranteed under the Covenant lies with the state.”
“The requirement expressed in Article 12 of the Covenant that any restrictions be consistent with other rights recognized in the Covenant is implicit in limitations to the other rights recognized in the Covenant.”
“The limitation clauses of the Covenant shall not be interpreted to restrict the exercise of any human rights protected to a greater extent by other international obligations binding upon the state.”[2]
Equally important is the fact that the Nuremberg Code[3], an example of “other international obligations binding upon the state”, was and is being trampled on:
1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.
2. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.
3. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results justify the performance of the experiment.
4. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.
5. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.
6. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.
7. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability or death.
8. The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in the experiment.
9. During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
10. During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him, that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.
The rule of law is also currently being ignored in international relations[4], which goes a long way to explaining why we’re on the brink of World War Three.
An egregious example of the breach of international law was the bombing of the Nordstream pipeline,[5] a crime which must be seen in a bigger context,[6] and few embody the spirit of the “New World Order”, its icy, cruel barbarism and sheer inhumanity better than Jared Kushner[7].
[1] https://bush41library.tamu.edu/archives/public-papers/2217#:~:text=Today%20that%20new%20world%20is,the%20rights%20of%20the%20weak.
[2] https://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/1984/07/Siracusa-principles-ICCPR-legal-submission-1985-eng.pdf
[3] https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2011/04/BMJ_No_7070_Volume_313_The_Nuremberg_Code.pdf
Three years ago French scholar Valérie Bugault wrote the we have been living in an 'operette democracy'. It was never real. Magna Charta was never about the rights of the peasants...The Rule of Law (in the British Imperial tradition) has taken over the Continental Law after the French (masonic) Revolution of 1789. Today this operette-scene is no longer required and so it is being dismantled. Corporations and banks now openly claim (political) power. Seduction Capitalism (Michel Clouscard) has come to an end. It's no longer required. 'Survival of the richest' is the new law of the jungle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNu_OGbqyWk&ab_channel=Throughtheeyesof