Nuremberg principles

Mm.

Um, it was all a very interesting exercise dealing with the US federal court system, and they have contrived to, uh, not allow any kind of real defense, necessity defense, international law defense, bringing in the Nuremberg, uh, Principles, UN Charter, human rights, Geneva Convention.

All of that is suppressed in these court cases, but we keep trying.

Uh, just finally, Martha, how relevant is the Catholic Worker Movement today?

Um, and in Nuremberg, there's a, she, she's on the board of the Nuremberg Academy, and, and there's an...

I, I, in fact, one of the last times I saw Navi Pillay was, was in Nuremberg, um, where they hold this, these regular meetings, um, of judges and lawyers, um, to promote the legacy of Nuremberg and, and, and, and the Nuremberg Principles, which stand for this idea that no one is above the law.

Um, and you know, very importantly, I mean, the United States, Russia, Fr- uh, Soviet Union, France, and, and, and the Gr- Great Britain were the powers that created, uh, the International Military Tribunal.

And the US prosecutor, Judge Jackson, said, you know, "We are, you know, it's the Germans who are in front of us today, but this law has to apply to everyone."

The ICC was created by the Rome Statute over 25 years ago with the majority of countries on the planet signing that treaty.

And the ICC is the only institution in the world that incarnates and institutionalizes the Nuremberg Principles.

We just came up, now it's 80 years ago that the Nuremberg trials wrapped up.

Right.

It's been an instrument of colonial double standards.

But for us in the belly of the beast, us in the US, as well as people inside of Europe, it's important that we address that.

And one of the ways we're trying to address that is to demand that this institution enforce the Nuremberg Principles in a truly fair and equitable manner.

And we saw what happened with those two videos when they try to do that.

The point is, and I'm going to say this and show you something important.

Donald Trump has become that fascist that is decried in the Nuremberg Principles.

That is the whole founding pillar of the United Nations here.

And we'll take a look at the Nuremberg Principles.

You can look at this on the UN's own website.

Why do we have a United Nations? Well, in the wake of World War II, it was seen as a major priority to protect America.

Principles of international law recognized in the charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal in the judgment of the tribunal here.

And this is what it says.

Right.

Which is this, you know, looking through the Nuremberg Principles after the Nazi trials, and the big takeaways there, it's not to do with the Holocaust or anything like that.

It was to do with undeclared wars of aggression and the attack on another country's sovereignty and all of these things that seem to be pretty much...

Pretty much stock and trade of the Trump administration so far in just 18 months.

Yes.

And what they're doing is really tempting the worst fate imaginable.

Trump, after that U.N., screed at the general assembly he is uh he is the fascist decried in the nuremberg principles like that's he's it he is the he's the living embodiment of everything that's in there and that was the supreme crime of crimes yeah Undeclared war of aggression.

So that's where we're at historically.

Um, he consolidated and improved, I, I, I hate to use the word improved, it implies there's something good about it, but, um, he built upon what his predecessors did when he decided to attack Iran, and the only Democratic, uh, criticism is that he still hasn't won, that he didn't, that he misjudged.

Uh, things like that, not this is a war of aggression and a violation of international law, violation of the Nuremberg Principles, none of the things they should say, that these billions of dollars are being stolen from the American people who are being told they can't have Medicare and Medicaid.

So yes, that is another issue.

This is bipartisan.

just

been doing some very basic look at what's called the Nuremberg Principles.

Because a lot of people in the past have done things that aren't necessarily the right thing to do and we have a structure now take for example in healthcare where everything is so protocol driven guidelines are just followed and most of the times these guidelines are right they're good but not always I don't think so Just because something's done doesn't mean that it's right.

And what happens in healthcare is when you start working, you enter as a human being.

There's certain things you always do.

And in a sense, you stop questioning.

So I'm just reading these Nuremberg principles here.

This is kind of what got me on to thinking about this.