Q: What would happen if arrest warrants were issued for mass murderers, in the U.S. State of Arizona as an example, and the sheriffs of the various Arizona counties held different views on whether or not to honor those arrest warrants and apprehend the mass murderers before the criminals can murder again?
A: You have just read a description of international law as applied to the world’s worst/most dangerous killers (war criminals) since international law was first recognized as a concept on Earth.
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Letters
“This is the problem: Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?
As one immune from nationalist bias, I personally see a simple way of dealing with the superficial (i.e., administrative) aspect of the problem: the setting up by international consent of a legislative and judicial body to settle every conflict arising between nations.
Thus, I am led to my first axiom: the quest of international security involves the unconditional surrender by every nation, in a certain measure, of its liberty of action, its sovereignty that is to say, and it is clear beyond all doubt that no other road can lead to such security.” (ALBERT EINSTEIN – To Dr. Freud, July 30, 1932)
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“Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to present the only course that holds out any promise of peace, the courage of supra-national security, since for a statesman to follow such a course would be tantamount to political suicide.” – ALBERT EINSTEIN, Last written words, April 1955, quoted by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden in “Einstein on Peace”