who always hates the good guys?

(this is my first attempt blogging via bluetooth phone via pocket pc, so if it royally gets screwed, forgive me.)

I saw a taxi on the way here (Starbucks), which I misinterpreted to be a cop car - so when I saw it's 'How Am I Driving' bumper sticker, I sort of chuckled imagining if cops had to drive around the city passively asking the world to grade their driving skills.

Then I realized how interesting it is that they don't - because, shouldn't they drive well, after all? Of course. So why shouldn't we judge their driving performance? Well, for two reasons, of course. One, we know that as the police force, they would be subject to the ridicule of those who don't respect the law - so people would be creating constant, unnecessary, and counterproductive demands on them to answer for their driving on the road. Second - the whole idea is that the cops are the good guys, so we have to try to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they have their reasons for acting however they might in a given moment, whether we understand or not. They must be allowed to 'police' themselves, for the most part, so that they can get on with their business.

That whole line of thought got me to thinking about how the US gave up on its efforts to continue to be exempt from war crimes investigation/acusations. On the one hand, it simply makes us look bad at this particular time to the uninformed when we go looking to be exempt from war crimes prosecution. On the other hand, it illustrates the anger of socialist liberal and corrupt leaders at us. They are the ones desperate to call in on the cops and let their bosses know they're driving bad.

U.S. Drops U.N. Bid for War Crime Shield:

over the past five weeks, the scandal over the abuse of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison has grown, and last week Secretary-General Kofi Annan made a rare intervention into council affairs. He urged members to oppose the resolution, questioned the legality of an exemption and warned against dividing the council.

The Corner on National Review Online:

"As a legal matter, the US doesn't really need the resolution. The ICC cannot, lawfully, claim authority over the citizens of non-party states because it is, after all, a treaty organization that cannot bind, or derogate from the rights of, states that are not also parties. The claims of some ICC supporters, and the ICC prosecutor, to the contrary are just wrong. If the ICC prosecutor decides to move forward and claim jurisdiction over the US, however, a UN resolution is not likely to stop him. If that happens, the US does not have to submit, and the American Servicemembers protection act authorizes the use of force to protect Americans from the ICC overseas. "

Really, it comes down to the fact that, like the cops, we are the good guys on the road and like with cops, it is the corrupt and the otherwise criminal that want to have the chance to accuse us at every turn. If there was any true search for justice on the part of these socialist leaders, they would know that we police ourselves better than anyone else would ever police themselves.