Unjust Justice: Against the Tyranny of International Law (Hardcover)

by Chantal Delsol (Author), Paul Seaton (Translator)
Key Phrases: international justice, International Criminal Court, Tzvetan Todorov, Hannah Arendt (more...)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 151 pages
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 2nd Revised edition edition (August 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933859075
• ISBN-13: 978-1933859071
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #944,457 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for anyone studying international law, December 7, 2008

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

Knowledge is power, and power can be used for tyranny. "Unjust Justice: Against the Tyranny of International Law" looks at the growing flaws in international law. Aiming at pretension, hypocrisy, and other notorious things so-called progressive minds have manipulated international law for in the name of peace, Delsol pulls no punches in being honest and frank about the misdeeds of those in charge. "Unjust Justice" should be required reading for anyone studying international law.

5.0 out of 5 stars Globalization? whose globalization, the left's or the market's?, September 17, 2008

By	Quilmiense (USA/Spain) - See all my reviews

A book to be read along with N. Sharansky's "Defending Identity". Delsol warns about the recklessness of trying to impose a positive law, a supranational law over the sovereignity of the world nations.

When the Enlightenment finished off Catholic morals in the West it left a moral wasteland that was filled by the nationalist or socialist creeds of totalitarianism. In the next wave of social engineering that our current anti-Christian left has concocted, legal moralism is now in vogue. It is the new Inquisition.

Delsol very intelligently unmasks the demagoguery of this new ideology. But is the International Court able to judge Chinese authorities for what they have done in Tibet? or put Putin in the dock for crimes committed in Chechnya? Of course not. So for the time being "international criminal justice is ... a sort of private vengeance ... I punish my neighbor ... because I can." But justice should be applicable to all or to none, and should be applicable in a well-defined territory without any exceptions." Or else it ain't justice.

"The Western groups that rebel and rail against globalization do not oppose globalization as such, but liberal (conservative) globalization ... rather they want to direct themselves the process of homogenization, they want it to occur under their banner." They are really "alternative globalists".

"A few decades ago it was the Marxists who were considered the paragons of generosity and humanity. Today ... the camp of the good is represented by the democratic defenders of human rights." Today's commisar dresses as a judge.

America beware: don't get sucked by this wave of European self-righteousness and phony goodness. They claim to seek international justice so they can judge Israel, America (and every ideal that makes America great and free, different from the rest of the envious world -my words).

Delsol sees it as a modern Manicheanism: the virtuous states dominated by the liberal media, always pandering to the basic instincts of their masses, and to rogue states, against evil West. The Inquisition comes back. Don't be fooled again. Same devil, new suit.

A great book. No excuse not to be warned. I believe when the US saved Europe from collaps after wwii it just made a kind of pact with the devil, for the sake of keeping to do business as usual. The best diagnosis I found is the following: "In other periods of history, Europeans have decreed that power alone counts, but today it is morality. In other periods they wanted industrialization, today they want to protect the environment. In every case, the world has to follow suit, no matter the circumstances in which others find themselves." Yeah, they want to be the deceased in the funeral, the bride in the wedding, and the victim of this self-inflicted human sacrifice.

A great woman, never mind she's French (just kidding). It gives hope to the human spirit.