According to Retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, Philippine courts have no say in anything ruled by the “International Criminal Court” (ICC).
Carpio is essentially saying that Philippine law enforcement officers and agents can act entirely under the authority of the ICC completely bypassing the Philippines’ judiciary.
‘Yung local courts hindi na kailangan because this is a crime against humanity, and sa Saligang Batas natin nakalagay doon, we adapt the general accepted principles of international law kasama na yung for crimes against humanity,
This means any politician can go straight to the ICC and build cases against their political rivals — or anyone for that matter — and aim to secure warrants that can bypass all Philippine courts. If such a perverse argument holds in the Philippines, it makes everything de facto consistent retroactively with the manner with which former President Rodrigo Duterte was whisked off to The Hague face “trial” before the ICC.
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And supposing there is challenge to or, at the very least, debate over whether or not a case lodged against a Filipino citizen can be considered a “crime against humanity”, where is the mechanism and institutional channel to hear that challenge or conduct that debate?
The Philippines has pretty much lost all semblance of face as a sovereign nation in this ongoing circus seeing that its entire people and their judiciary have simply stood back and allowed a foreign court to direct the actions of its police and its National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
What is left as far as Philippine governance is concerned now that its own justice system itself has been outsourced to foreigners? Perhaps Filipinos should start considering outsourcing their other branches of government as well seeing that their Congress is already regarded as a den of crooks and their presidents subject to indictment by foreign “criminal courts”.
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better yet, let AI do the job.
include public works, traffic management, police, military, the ENTIRE civil service.
the only left to people should be the cooking of food and hand job parlors..