Will The ICC Investigate Crimes Against The Filipino People Done By President Roxas And Vice President Trillanes?

I keep thinking about Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and his comrade at arms Congressman Gary Alejano are too busy filing bogus cases at the International Criminal Court. I've heard of how inefficient the organization is especially with this statement from the Forbes Magazine:

News stories recently reported that the International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord of being an accessory to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Rarely were readers told that this is only the second conviction obtained in the Court—both of Congolese warlords—after 12 years of the Court’s operation and over $1 billion in expenditures. Rarer still was the insight that even this conviction, on a 2-1 vote, was long in coming and disappointing in outcome since the criminal was acquitted of the most serious charges, and was only convicted at all because of a mid-course correction to charge him with being merely an accessory to the crimes.

The obvious question few seem to be asking is whether the I.C.C. is simply too expensive and inefficient to justify. Originally designed to make certain that war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity were not ignored, the Court is supposed to achieve a sufficiently robust presence that it contributes “to the prevention of such crime.” To that end, it has 34 judges, over 700 staff, and an annual budget of $166 million. They say you can’t put a price on justice but $500 million per warlord conviction seems high by any standard. And what do 34 judges do all day? You don’t have to be a legal expert to figure that the preventive effect of convicting 2 warlords in 12 years doesn’t exactly leave international war criminals shaking in their boots.

With that in mind, their inefficiency won't make President Roxas and Vice President Trillanes quiver in fear? It doesn't take a political analyst or a lawyer to understand that inefficiency breeds no fear for the law. I may not fully understand the laws and I needed to consult some international law websites to understand ICC's violations -- but I don't need a doctorate in political science or a degree in law to understand that the organization itself is very inefficient.

I remembered writing the imagined scenario of what could happen under their presidency and vice presidency where the Philippines can turn into one huge narco state. They may even gain power by putting puppets in the Ombudsman, the Commission on Human Rights, the Department of Justice and others that should have the relevance to pin them down. In short, organizations that should be there to limit their power are now giving them absolute power instead.

Let's take the case of some good Filipino politicians who want to charge them at the ICC for their corruption. They may even post a petition at Change.org that says, "ICC please investigate the crimes of President Roxas and Vice President Trillanes." with some words addressing the worsening drug problem, the worsening influx of illegal Chinese who are trying to hide from China's chopping board (and maybe the Mexican cartels can join in next), the worsening misappropriation of public finds to name a few of the many crimes the two may commit if they were at the Malacanang right now.

The chances are the answer will be no. Instead, they may even want to dismiss the cries and not set any investigator to help out the Philippines. Chances are both President Roxas and Vice President Trillanes will give ICC some money in exchange for immunity. With this in in mind, are you thankful that both President Roxas and Vice President Trillanes are not in the Malacanang?