Government is defined by its ability to create laws, impose taxes and enforce laws. The UN has created a massive body of international law. It is working diligently to expand its power to impose taxes. The ICC will provide the power to enforce its laws. The UN's vision of global governance is, in fact, world government.
Every human being is born free, and almost immediately, enslaved by some form of government.
Speaker after speaker has risen to affirm the need for a permanent International Criminal Court, and then proceeded to describe a methodology in direct conflict with the previous speaker. These sharp differences of opinion exist on virtually every one of the thousand brackets that remain in the draft proposal. Such ad hoc tribunals avoid all the dangers that are inherent in the creation of any new bureaucracy, especially one endowed with the expansive authorities proposed in many of the bracketed draft proposals. Environmental organizations already claim that harvesting timber from the rainforests of Brazil is a crime against humanity. All nations should think twice before surrendering their national sovereignty to a group of UN bureaucrats who have the authority to dictate the behavior of national citizens.