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Facing a losing street battle, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has decided to take its fight against the military abroad in the form of a "high profile legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC)." The Brotherhood hopes this desperate ploy will gain them "recognition as defenders of democracy in Egypt." However, Egypt is one of the "few countries in the world that has not ratified the international treaty establishing" ICC. Yet this has not stopped the Brotherhood's legal advisors such as former anti-Israel UN "expert" and terrorist frontman, John Dugard, from arguing that the ICC can "can act even in the absence of treaty ratification if a country's government issues a declaration recognizing the court's jurisdiction over an investigation. The lawyers say officials of the deposed Morsi government have made that declaration and that it should be recognized because it remains the legitimate, democratically elected government. 'We hope, and we have good reason to believe, that the court will take this declaration seriously,' said John Dugard." In other words, they're hoping the law is an ass.