THE JUDGE AS PROSECUTOR: TWO DAYS AT THE "TRIAL" OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

Emperor's Clothes ^ | June 19, 2002 | Ian Johnson, Jared Israel

[joan]

fyi

[tomakaze]

bump

[bob808]

Bump! Great post.

[duckln]

Amazing, and this is just 2 days of, by my count 65 days, not counting the 'obuse' during opening statements.

Hope Milo a 'speedy' recovery and 'vigor' in 'battle'. Judge May says the 26th of July is the deadline for 'prosecution' witnesses. Will he keep it? That's when Milosevic has his turn at bat, but who's listening. Certainly not any of our 'freepress'.

[duckln]

As I perused Courtroom One with its judges, lawyers, secretaries and legal clerks, I realised that these people, working for this particular Tribunal, had sold their dignity and the dignity of their profession to the New World Order

That little paragraph says it all. Buchanan was and is right, dump the UN.We better start looking now for a 3rd party candidate, if W doesn't extricate us from this mess and take justice to the 'terrorist' and the 'tribunal', we're going to lose the 'war'.

[Hoplite]

Simple, we're not getting our information from members of the ICDSM.

Emperor's Clothes needs you Sandnes.

I don't.

[bob808]

No, you get your info from NATO and ICTY, a much more fair and impartial source - yeah, right.

[JoeSchem]

Slobo must go, lest the legacy of Klintoon and Maddy Albright be tarnished.

[vooch]

I believe the info comes right from the transcripts......seems your KLA jihadists can't keep their story straight.

BTW how's about the 6 KLA leaders arrested in the past 2 days for killing their fellow Albanians ?

[Hoplite]

Technically, ones a marxist and the other's a socialist.

Poor Sandnes - after all that ranting about "1984" - to find oneself in bed with the Ingsoc crew must just be so disconcerting.

And no, I don't find anything funny about it at all. It's sad.

[Hoplite]

In late breaking world news this evening, it was announced that the traditional Serb Nationalist salute is being replaced:

The salute will now be rendered from the forehead, and the middle finger will be curled into the palm.

When asked for an explanation, authorities stated that the middle finger was removed from the salute, as those using it rarely had a f#@&ing clue, but added that the salute could still be used to show pride and instill a sense of unity amongst its' users as they explained their position on world events and their recent history to skeptics worldwide.

I'm bored with the opposition here, Bob. Gimme something I can work with rather than just your opinion.

[Kate22]

The 3 fingered salute is representative of the Orthodox Holy Trinity - if your comment/ joke was about any other religious group it would be viewed very differently. Especially if you showed such venom towards them. But, hey, it's the Christian Serbs - who cares?!

You are clearly intelligent enough to know that the Hague trial is a complete sham. You have lowered yourself to A'Brit's level, for goodness sake!

[Kate22]

At no time during this process did the judge, Richard May, stipulate a time limit on the prosecution. Yet when it was the turn of Mr Milosevic to cross-examine the witness, Judge May would instruct that a time limit be put on proceedings.
At one point, in response to protests from Mr Milosevic, Judge May arrogantly proclaimed, "We are the judges Mr Milosevic and we have judged that you will have forty-five minutes to cross-examine this witness." (7th June 2002).

Proceedings were taking a predictable course. It didn't take much insight to grasp the following: A) The witnesses told a well-rehearsed story. B) If the witnesses got into difficulties during the cross-examination the Judge would intervene.

Ian Johnson: "I work as a paralegal in the UK. So for me, the perversion of justice I had just witnessed - and with a British judge presiding! - was infuriating.
{Good on you, Ian Johnson, this gives me some hope for my nationality yet in this matter!!!}

Joan - this is an excellent post; a really well-written article. Thanks for posting it.

I heard May the other day, in answer to Milosevic's objection that the witnesses are being allowed to make statements at the end of their testimony, say that 'most of them have been through horrific events and deserve the right to be heard' (or words to that effect). What kind of 'judge' would (a) make such a determination and (b) allow the witness box to be used as a podium?

This is a great article to be used in the mainstream press.

[bob808]

Funny how the commmunists are applauded here on FR, isn't it?

I don't think anyone is supporting communism, just a guy who had the courage to stand up to global imperialists masquerading as humanitarians. What's funny (and tragic) is these NWO Globalists policies are sometimes supported here on FR.

[bob808]

I'm bored with the opposition here, Bob. Gimme something I can work with rather than just your opinion.

How about starting with the article that was posted.

[bob808]

Thanks for the kind words. Don't get me wrong, I am not a Slobo supporter per se. He's definitely a slick politician who funneled lots of money into the pockets of his family and supporters. And he should be held accountable for that - in Serbia, not by Slick Willie's henchmen at the Hague.

I also agree that he's a "non-nationalist"; anyone who's actually read his allegedly infamous speech at Kosovo Polje in 1989 can see it's quite full of praise for multi-culturalism and is in fact quite the opposite from "inciting Serb nationalism", as has been implied (and even falsely quoted) by the mainstream press ad nauseum.

But you see, that is exactly why I support him very much in his fight at the Hague. It seems clear to me that he's being railroaded, that his trial is a sham and nothing better then the show trials put on by the Soviets. The sole purpose of the show at the ICTY is to try to put a stamp of legitimacy on NATO's intervention by finding old Milo guilty. It's an attempt to whitewash the historical record by dismissing the entire series of wars as being caused by Serb nationalism inflamed by a vile demagogue. Mr. separatist "Islamic Declarations" Izetbegovic is not at fault for the violence, the drug-running upstanding members of the KLA are not at fault, it's all Serbia's fault. I'm sure even you can agree that's a load of bull. That's why Slobo has my full support at the Hague.