Steven Den Beste argues that US opposition to the International Criminal Court reflects attachment to the Bill of Rights. If den Beste is worried about attacks on the Bill of Rights (which is undoubtedly one of the key documents in the history of democracy) surely he could look a little closer to home. As I understand the position of the Bush administration, anyone in the world, including US citizens living in America, can be declared an ‘enemy combatant’, seized and held incommunicado and without trial indefinitely, inside or outside the US. At one point, the government was also claiming the right to execute such ‘combatants’ after a ‘trial’ by a special court with no requirement to adhere to any notion of due process. I’m not sure if this is still the case, but current US reality is far worse than anything that has been imagined about hypothetical abuses by the ICC.