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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague Depends on who files and in what capacity. (And this is far bigger than DeSantis although he's part of the machinery) My best understanding is the Genocide Conventions obligate ANY signatory country to file with the UN when Genocide is determined likely (like Scotland could
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague file or Germany could file or Native Americans could file or US could file on itself to hold Trump/Trump admin/GOP accountable if Congress/ DOJ does hold those folks accountable)with intent established/evident via public commentary, propaganda documents and ACTIONS for which 2/

@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague the attempted /actual outcome is clear (this is why intentbis so important).
Across the nation Blue States and blue counties and districts in GOP States were systematically targeted for PPE Med supply deficits due to high population numbers of Af-Am, immigrants and Dem
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague voters. This continued long after it was known that Af-Am died at 3x the rates of Whites and needed hospital care at 5x the rates of Whites and let's not even talk about the fact that Doctors without Borders had to provide for Native people's, Kush Trump and GOP widely
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague published dialogue confirms intent here but even still given the knowns it's evident in the targeted deficits then there's the ordering on non-essential biz openings such as salons and other Biz where Af-Am/POC make up majority of employees etc which establishes 5/

@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague "by any and all means" that was systematically enacted by the Natiin-State government and THATS ATTEMPTED/OR COMPLETED GENOCIDE
Geneva Conventions Im not as familiar with re flexible jurisdiction re: filing but what I do know is targeting political opponents in this
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague case Blue States and areas with high Dem voters populations, elderly, disabled and poor DOES fall under Crimes Against Humanity and so could not be included. Both are heinous crimes in the extreme with genocide for obvious reasons being at the forefront but more given that
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague Af-Am died at 3x the rate of Whites due to the effects systemic racism and as the effects were of such were well known for decades via public health indices (& so much more) that too amounts to ongoing passive genocide and institutional structural and cultural racism are
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague well known precursors/prologue re: opportunistically activating attempted or completed genocide actual.
T/US is going to have to split this wide open and no better time than now and no single admin more responsible than Trump GOP.

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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague So t/US is NOT a signatory to Rome Statute of the ICC or the ICC but that doesn't mean the case against the US if found to have merit couldn't land there.. after all neither was Serbia and look where milosivec ended up. However the UN has many ways to hold genocideirs
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague accountable through internal justice boards which often serve in lieu of the ICC for various reasons. So there are various ways to establish some measure of Justice which can never really be had here. But until the US takes on acknowledges and deals with restoration and
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague reparations re: its own event based and ongoing crimes WE WILL CONTINUE TO RUN THOSE SAME CRIMES as normative BIZ as usual until stopped. And given the precursors remain in place and active, at high risk for committing genocide above and beyond systemic passive measures
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague Did that get at what you were asking? It's terribly brief and the subject including legal mechanisms and footwork terribly complex at times that often make what seems simple as outlined via Genocide conventions unenforceable as such but
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague rather as constituting mass murder ethnic cleansing etc
And academics make an even bigger mess of it because they don't get the importance of established legal rulings and how what looks to be lay language DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME IN COURT.. I read the cases and why this or
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@Captmike4804 @DWUhlfelderLaw @estarianne @glennkirschner2 @ACLU @DMVBlackLives @TheRoot @CornelWest @SameiHuda @ICCT_TheHague that ruling was handed down and take my cues from there. Often this puts me at odds with academics but I tend to stick within the realm of the world as it is

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