Civil Society Steps Shape Our Future
South Africa's application before the International Criminal Court celebrates humanity
The solutions to the world’s problems are with civil society. They are not with politicians who have power that is conferred through elections, inheritance, or seizures. The logical outcome of vesting politicians with the power to solve problems is a final solution. The process of investing legitimacy is governance at the national state level inevitably delays justice allowing moral monsters to extend the arc of the moral universe. Only civil society through transparency, cooperation and subsidiarity can accomplish MLK’s dictum that "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
South Africa’s petition before the court is two fold, one to say Israel is committing genocide over a 75 year period and two to rule on provisional measures are that are needed to prevent the progression toward genocide. The first will take four or five years to resolve. The second could come in a month. The ICJ does not have any enforcement power. But by making a determination to cease and desist it lets member states know that civil society expects them to boycott, sanction and divest from the industry of genocide.
More importantly a determination on provisional measures will set the bar for where to bend the curve of the moral arc. Any which way it’s a win. Granting South Africa’s request will show that world opinion is on the side of stopping civilian massacres. A both-side-ism determination will show that history is not as important as ethnic cleansing when civil society calls for stopping civilian massacres. Not granting it show that the Ministry Of The Future does not exist and civil society needs to step up efforts to get off the road to omnicide.
The Center For Constitutional Rights case against Genocide Joe and his henchmen will come up for a hearing in a month by which time the provisional measures issue will have been determined. It will let American courts know that they are wrong to mollify white supremacists within the 3/5th constitution. It will say that the victims of apartheid, generated under American law, have witnesses from civil society in the form of Amnesty International, Democracy Now, Center for Constitutional Rights, Equal Justice Initiative, Oxfam, etc. whose testimony will enter the public domain to offset the propaganda being generated by the establishment institutions like legacy media, parties and universities. The steps civil society takes shapes the justice of our collective future.
Read South Africa’s application.
Watch Tembeka Ngcukaitobi present the case of genocidal intent.