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Not even Roland Freisler had
such a switch, when he tried
the anti-Hitler conspirators
in Berlin in 1944.
-- David
Irving, commenting on the
British judge trying Slobodan
Milosevic at The Hague
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London, Friday, February 15, 2002
Justice
ON THE first day of the show trial
of Slobodan Milosevic at The
Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief
prosecutor of the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia, spoke of the
"medieval savagery" of the "'war
crimes" he is alleged to have ordered
or failed to stop. For those who work
for that mysterious entity, the
"International Community", and gather
at the Bar of World Opinion, the word
"medieval" is a common term of
abuse.
Is medieval savagery, perpetuated by
identifiable people caught up in the
blood-thirsty frenzy of civil war,
worse than modem savagery, in which
people are targeted by mathematical
calculation and blown to hit by bombs
dropped from a height of 50,000 feet by
anonymous airmen?
If Milosevic is guilty of "war
crimes", although he may have
personally killed no one, what about
Clinton, Blair and others
responsible for the shameful and
treacherous war against the Serbs in
1999? When will they be brought to
trial at The Hague?
The "international justice" Del
Ponte speaks of so smugly is a parody
of justice. It is a manoeuvre dressed
up in fine words, for furtherance of
the "One World" policies of the
"International Community". Only those
who have somehow got in the way of
those policies will ever risk being
brought to trial. Others can commit
acts of medieval, modern or future
savagery as they please and still go
free.
David
Irving writes:
"Peter
Simple" was originally the pen
name of Michael Wharton,
whose regular column in The
Daily Telegraph represented
all that was conservative and
right about England. He retired
many years ago, but still
contributes an occasional column
to the newspaper, like today's,
expressing all the views that
their conformist journalists are
too frightened to voice for
themselves. Readers who might
wish to let him know that he is
not alone can write to him at
Forge Cottage, Forge Road,
Naphill Common, Bucks., HP14 4SU,
England.
As an
Englishman I am distinctly uneasy
about the trial now proceeding at
the Hague. It is as lopsided as
the 1945-1946 "International
Military Tribunal" at Nuremberg
-- which was neither
International, nor Military, nor
a Tribunal.
Britain
was one of the NATO powers which
conducted the criminal
bombardment of Milosevic's
capital (it was for the bombing
of Belgrade in April 1941,
incidentally, that we hanged
Hitler's field-marshal
Alexander Löhr after
WW2).
So what
business do a British
judge and British
prosecutor have in this neutral
court-room? It is a scandal on
which no English newspaper has
yet dared to voice comment -- let
alone the fact that this
"neutral" judge has a switch,
which he readily uses, to cut off
the microphone of the defendant
when he says things that are not
acceptable to the court. Not even
Roland Freisler had such a
switch, when he tried the
anti-Hitler conspirators in
Berlin in 1944.
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Robert Harris:
Why I have a sneaking sympathy for
Milosevic
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