00:00For 250 years, Americans have governed ourselves as a free and sovereign people.
00:04We choose our own leaders, we determine our own laws,
00:07and when we're accused of a crime, we stand for judgment before a jury of our own peers.
00:13This is the essential and indispensable feature of our form of government.
00:17It is the foundation of our shared way of life.
00:20But today, powerful people in faraway places want to take that away from us.
00:25They believe that they should be in charge of your laws, of your country, your life.
00:30And they don't care whether or not you agree.
00:33Halfway across the world, there's an institution that calls itself the International Criminal Court.
00:38Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't.
00:40But chances are you don't know the names of its judges, of its prosecutors, or its president.
00:46And you shouldn't have to.
00:47But as we speak, the ICC and its friends are waging a war against our country.
00:53Not with bullets or missiles, but with statutes, compacts,
00:57and the force of so-called international law.
01:00When the ICC was born 24 years ago, they told us that it was merely a narrow backstop,
01:05a global court that would step in to prosecute only the gravest defenses,
01:09things like genocide and war crimes,
01:11and only when a nation's courts were unable to prosecute them on their own.
01:15But the truth is, it was something far more radical and extreme.
01:19It was a global tribunal staffed by unelected globalist bureaucrats who claim their power is almost unlimited.
01:27The danger of this global court has only continued to grow.
01:31Today, it threatens every aspect of our political and legal system.
01:35Border patrol agents removing violent criminals from our country.
01:38American marines risking their lives to defend our homeland.
01:42Prosecutors working to dismantle terrorist plots to attack and kill Americans.
01:46If we stand idle, all of them would be at the mercy of foreign judges thousands of miles away,
01:53facing the constant risk of prosecution and even imprisonment for the so-called crime of defending their own country.
02:01The American people never agreed to any of this, and they never will.
02:06Read the words of our Declaration of Independence.
02:09We fought a revolution against a foreign power transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.
02:17Independence is our birthright.
02:19We will never let foreign bureaucrats take that away from us.
02:23This administration will not sit by as the ICC and its allies seek to threaten our people.
02:28If they believe they can deprive us of our sovereignty,
02:32we will teach them the full meaning of American resolve.
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