International Law
Monday, April 20th, 2009 @ 5:18 am | Justice League, What Were They Thinking
International Law does not work this way:
So wait… war, poverty, and oppression were all legal before?
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April 20th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Oh well, there had to be an explanation for all these centuries in which mankind has made such a good work at trying to exterminate each other, it’s only because nobody has ever thought of banning war, hunger and oppression! Brilliant!
I think I need a drink…
April 20th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Well, there exist something like “international laws of war” (the Geneva convention for instance). Poverty and oppression are not “legal” as such but they are not banned neither. Certain oppressions are non-legal depending on the country, and you have intentions to fight poverty, oppression,… This one actually makes sense compared to so many other things they have done.
It does remind me of a Saved by the bell-episode (yes I feel ashamed) where kelly’s dad (who worked for an arms manufacturer) was all of a sudden out of job because world peace was declared.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:50 am
I love Hal’s little smirk in the second panel. It looks like he’s thinking “an end to war and oppression? That’s what you think heh heh heh.”
April 20th, 2009 at 6:59 am
I see your point, yet there’s many an “international law” out there that “regulates” war, oppression, etc. Problem is that when somebody decides to ignore those laws there’s little the rest of the world can (or is willing to) do against it. If current international regulations oriented to keep abuse at bay during a conflict (yep, I know this last phrase is a bit ironic at best) are all but useless, the possibility of making laws that utterly ban wars seems laughable given the way the World is doing as of today.
As for Saved by the bell… Ashamed? Come on, it rocked! Here in Spain they broadcasted it at lunch time, right after school, that half and hour was all but sacred for my sister and I.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Is it just me or do these guys look really unhappy?
“world peace was declared today.”
“You finally did it! You maniacs!”
April 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am
“Oh no, Utopia…gotta look for a new job.” I understand them, in a way.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Jesus, who knew Flash was such a Debbie Downer?
April 20th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Wow, the UN is just as powerful in the DCU as it is in the “Left Behind” universe.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Well, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed in 1929, actually outlawed war. It was signed by a number of nations, including Germany and Japan, and we saw how well that worked just a decade later.
If one could enforce anything just by passing a bill, then the entire world would be more into International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19).
April 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Michael says: “Jesus, who knew Flash was such a Debbie Downer?”
To be fair, pretty much nothing is as it first seems in the DC Universe, so I can hardly blame Flash for not immediately buying into it.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Illegal? Hell, I thought they were MANDATORY.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Yes…well we saw how well world peace worked in the Superman films….
“Lets destroy all weopons!”
“Hate Groups Disband!”?? WTF? Seriously like that’ll ever happen….
April 20th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Wait, how does outlawing war even work? What do you do if a country disobeys that law, given that it, you know, outlaws war? Though, with superheroes available, I suppose you send them in as global police (they would have the power to stop war without war…probably). Which means that the Justice League would still be needed. So they can all cheer up.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
“The United Nations has voted…”
Oh, well, problem solved, then.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Poverty, too.
“Got a dollar?”
“Why?”
“I’m homeless.”
“What?! Help! Police!”
April 20th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Corti-Conscience? Is that anything like Cauli-Flower?
April 20th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
War, the crime so big, there’s no law against it.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Shiai beat me to the punch. International law did outlaw war in 1929 which explains why there’s never been a war since.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
“If one could enforce anything just by passing a bill, then the entire world would be more into International Talk Like a Pirate Day”
I prefer International Talk Like a Ninja Day, but I’m the soft spoken time. The problem is nobody knows when it is.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
“soft spoken *type*” Grrrrr
April 21st, 2009 at 3:46 am
>>“Oh no, Utopia…gotta look for a new job.” I understand them, in a way.
If you recall, they once sat around happy about alien invasions and other disasters, because they “make them heroes.” (J’onn makes this remark, and when he does I can imagine him, Superman, and alien agent Green Lantern snickering to each other)
Okay, that was just a fantasy by the Tornado Tyrant as he was pretending to be the JLA. But does that sound off the mark anyway?
April 21st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
ShadowWing:
Be a Ninja Day is Dec 5th duh. That’s easy for me to remember cuz Im German and Dec 5th is Christmas Eve in Germany. *lol*
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 am
@Diema
In Germany December 5th is the day before St. Nicholas’s day, Christmas Eve is December 24th.
@Shiai and Mark
The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed wars of aggression only, not war in self-defense. And the problem with such a treaty is of course enforcement – absent a world government and world police/army, peace has to be upheld or if necessary restored by the use of force of the signatories. However, AFAIK the Kellogg Briand Pact and its violation by Germany was in fact used as part of the legal foundation of the Nuremberg Trials (where the charges included preparing and mounting wars of aggression as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity).
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 am
Oh, and since murder, theft etc. have been illegal since time immemorial, we’ve never ever had to deal with those pesky little problems.
July 26th, 2009 at 9:57 am
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