Welcome to the podcast.

This is episode 404.

My name is Douglas Wilson and you are whoever you are, and you are most welcome. Good to have you join us. So the thing I want to talk about is a recent comment made by Zoron Mamdani, the new mayor-elect of New York City, he announced that New York City was a city of international law.

Now, there's a particular reason he has for saying this, but it has applications in all kinds of directions, all kinds

of jurisdictional directions. New York City is a city of international law. Now, his point was that

if Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, came to New York City, then Mamdani was going to have him arrested,

or do what he could to have him arrested, because Netanyahu is a war criminal,

according to the international community. Now, with stuff like this, you hardly know where to start. New York City is a part of New York State. New York State is a state in the Federal Union. The national government of the United States has jurisdiction over all the states in certain areas. The states have

jurisdiction in other defined areas, defined either by the Constitution or by, as a practical

matter, by the decisions of the court and by the Supreme Court and other and other courts. New York City is in no

way under the jurisdiction of international law. International law is something that is, the United

States would be bound to international law in places like international waters

to the extent that we've signed treaties binding ourselves to international law in those areas.

And if Congress and or the president bound ourselves, bound Americans to international law in areas that were historically a matter of Congress's jurisdiction or the president's jurisdiction, let's say environmental regulations, some of the climate change

hoey, where we, let's say there was an international law regarding carbon emissions, and our

government imposed the standards of international law on us. The name for that would be

treason. You don't subject the jurisdiction of the United States to an alien body, to an outside

body, without going through the entire political process for doing that.

If you wanted to subject the United States again to the crown of the United Kingdom,

you couldn't just do it, right? You couldn't just do it. Neither can you just do it when it comes to international law,

you know, the bureaucrats in Brussels. Now, what Mamdani is wanting to do is simply pursue a particular

domestic agenda. He's trying to placate his base. His base is virulently anti-Israel,

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