But as we speak, the ICC and its friends are waging a war against our country. Not with bullets or missiles, but with statutes, compacts, and the force of so called international law. When the ICC was born 24 years ago, they told us that it was merely a narrow backstop. A global court that would step in to prosecute only the gravest offenses. Things like genocide and war crimes. And only when a nation's courts were unable to prosecute them on their own. But the truth is, it was something far more radical and extreme. (01:01–01:10)
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Asserts that the ICC was initially presented as a court for prosecuting only the gravest offenses.
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