Ben Ferencz is Awesome

Ben Ferencz was the chief prosecutor for the US at the Nuremberg Trials. I remember seeing his speech to the American Bar Association a while ago (I logged alot of daytime CSPAN-time when I had a job "working from home" before medical school. And by working from home, I mean fishing and playing
and beating all Zelda games for 7 hours, and working for 1 hour), and I thought it was really interesting, though he gets into some of the gruesome details of the Holocaust, just FYI. He talks about his experiences in prosecuting the head Nazis, which was his first case (he won, convicting 17 SS commanders, resting his case after 2 days), and then speaks about the International Criminal Court and reflects on the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I've posted the entire speech below (6 videos total, it'll automatically play through all 6 using the player below). Also, check out his website.

"Suppose everyone went around and decided he was going to kill in self-defense any presumed enemy, including the infirm, the aged, children. What would that world look like?"

"What kind of world do you want? Do you want a world like this poised on the verge of exploding at any moment? Freedom from fear, one of the 4 rights which Roosevelt was advocating after World War II, I've never seen the country so afraid"

I can only imagine what he thinks of fear-mongerers like Glenn Beck...