These plans were not to bear fruit, however, as Pol Pot's suspiciously timed death less than a week later closed the book on that possibility. Pol Pot's reputation as the heinous and barbaric Cambodian leader eclipses the precedent that would have been set if the U.S. had proceeded to abduct him from Cambodia, his nation of birth and citizenship, and turn him over to the International Tribunal. Such action would have contradicted everything America's common-law based legal system is supposed to stand for. However, such an action would have enhanced the World Court's image and propped up its moral and legal authority, objectives that may have been well served when Clinton's order was made public. Americans are happy to see monsters like Pol Pot hauled off to a kangaroo court at The Hague without realizing that precedent is being set that will affect people of all nationalities, even Americans.
Precedents are the building blocks of world government.
Now enters the second April 9th propaganda coup. The World Court issued a first ever stay of execution in a Virginia state criminal case. Angel Francisco Breard, a Paraguayan national, was scheduled to die for killing an Arlington woman in 1992. Paraguay appealed to the court to stop the execution based on the 1963 Vienna Convention which requires consular assistance be provided to foreign nationals charged with a crime. The Paraguayan consulate was not informed when Breard was arrested, however, Breard was provided with two American lawyers who handled his case at taxpayer expense.