[HN Gopher] Declaration in Support of the Creation of an Interna...
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       Declaration in Support of the Creation of an International Anti-
       Corruption Court
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-05-17 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (integrityinitiatives.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (integrityinitiatives.org)
        
       | minkzilla wrote:
       | Who makes sure the Anti-Corruption Court isn't corrupt? Is it
       | courts all the way up?
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       | I don't think accountability on the international level has
       | proven very effective in the past.[0] And I don't think this
       | would be any different. Especially because those member states
       | cooperation would be determined by people who only stand to lose
       | from being a part of it.
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       | [0]
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Assistance_Mi...
        
         | krapp wrote:
         | I don't know. How is it possible to even have a system of laws
         | without an infinite set of lawyers and appellate courts?
        
       | Mountain_Skies wrote:
       | Sounds like yet another institution that the self appointed
       | "International Community" will use to force the rest of humanity
       | to live by its rules. Corruption is bad but we know that the
       | definition of words are infinitely malleable. Likely a 100%
       | chance that the definition of corruption will itself become
       | corrupted so this court can be used to grab any resource on the
       | planet that the "rules based international community" desires.
        
       | hulitu wrote:
       | Why would an international anti corruption court have any success
       | when corruption (lobby) is not prosecuted in the member states ?
        
         | rntn wrote:
         | This is available on the main III site as a link in the current
         | newsletter :
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         | "An IACC would be a court of last resort, holding kleptocrats
         | accountable (and grabbing their accounts). The court would
         | recover, repatriate or repurpose stolen assets, punishing
         | corrupt officials but also professional enablers (step forward,
         | lawyers, bankers, accountants and real estate agents).
         | 
         | The IACC could be established by a small number of founding
         | member states, so long as they include several major financial
         | hubs where lots of cash gets stashed (step forward, the UK,
         | Europe and the US)."
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         | https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/kick-kleptocrats-in-the-wa...
        
       | uvnq wrote:
       | I mean sure, as long as this doesn't become corrupt.
       | 
       | Maybe we should have an international transparency court instead.
       | Much harder to get away with corruption if certain things are
       | done out in the open.
        
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