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    "content": "The element of coached witnesses, like the Kenya National Human Rights Commission has been doing and being taken as gospel truth by Ocampo, has been done in other countries. For example, it has been done in Uganda with the LRA. I want to read it here. It reads: “From an informed source, the ICC has produced witnesses who recounted their testimonies while in the witness box admitting that they were coached by Non-Governmental Organizations”. It happened here in Kenya. The witnesses he is using have been coached. We have documents and letters where Ocampo has said that: “Mr. So and So, we have received your statement”. A day will come when we will present to this House. Who are the financiers of the ICC? About 60 per cent of the funding comes from four European countries. That is why I want to challenge the Members of this House to read a book by David Hoiler entitled: The ICC Europe Guantanamo Bay”. The Guantanamo Bay and the Hague Tribunal have a lot of similarities. The Guantanamo Bay Europe is meant for Africa. I want to quote a very reformed diplomat and a Foreign Minister in the British Government, Mr. Robin Cook. He said that: “The ICC is not a court set up to bring to book Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom or Presidents of the United States; it is meant to bring people to book in the Third World countries”. Finally, I want to go to the US position when President Obama and Rannerberger push Kenya to the ICC. After they withdrew from the ICC, the US Government enacted a law called the American Service Members Protection Act in 2002. This Protection Act – I do not want to go into it - is known by the proponents of the ICC. In the USA they call it “The Hague Invention.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the US Government, in that Protection Act, has made the following legal provisions for their people. That the law threatens American lawyers. An American lawyer today cannot represent an American who has been indicted by the ICC! That if you are in the US and you are a lawyer, you cannot get a job in the ICC. The law is that explicit. But above all, Article 98 of that agreement exempts US possible citizen surrender. The moral question we are asking is this; Article 127 of the Rome Statute gives the provision that all international treaties have acceptance and withdrawal provisions. If the Rome Statute gives us a provision, why should we bother the process which we use? Today, 22nd December, 2010 Kenya will be remembered when we regained our independence from the rogue ambassador and rogue prosecutor. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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