John Bolton Quotes
If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.
Bolton, John. Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad. Threshold Editions, 2007.
This manual was still in force during the Iraq war 50 years later.
The Constitution was not drafted until 1787 and was ratified later. In the interim the young United States functioned under the Articles of Confederation, in a sense, our first Constitution. This clause established that the Federal Government should have the exclusive power and authority to conduct foreign affairs.
It was commonly asked of Blacks applying to register. There are few people who could give a cogent response to this. What made it terrible was that the white racist registrars had the unilateral authority to determine whether or not the oral response was adequate. Recording of responses were prohibited so that no Black who was disenfranchised could ever appeal when he/she was rejected. This is one of the thousands of techniques that were used throughout the South to prevent Negro voting. They were so egregious that Lyndon Johnson was abe to force through Southern filibusters The Voting Rights Act which has eliminated the worst of the racist restrictions on Black voting. As the worst of the racist white generation has died off, Southern discrimination in voting has lessened and the situation is better each year. By 2012 there were some who claimed that the law was no longer necessary do to changes in attitude and practice, but others worried that if there were no longer any forms of discrimination in voting, why some wanted to repeal the Voting Rights Act.
While not all the indictments of the International Criminal Court were against Africans the majority were. Some African leaders thought that a double standard was being used against them. Banda’ observed that African unity was made extremely difficult as several heads of African states were indicted war criminals, and under the Rome Treaty which had been signed by most African nations obligated them to arrest indicted war criminals who were on their soil. So the African states could not hold a meeting of all African leaders without the host country being in the dilemma of whether or not to arrest them. In reality, in the decades leading up to this quotation, most of the worst atrocities did occur in Africa. The Presidents of the Sudan and Kenya were both indicted war criminals as well as some other officials and revolutionary group leaders. At the time the United States had not ratified the Treaty of Rome and this was not the best example for the Africans. However they had ratified it.
John Robert Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant and political commentator who served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006 and as the 27th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019.
