[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'.

[JoeSchem]

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

[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.

[Canuck1]

Judge May. "Your time is up Mr Milosevic. Mr Yemeni, I would like to thank you for coming to give evidence to the International Tribunal and you are now free to go."

Translation: Judge May. "There's no need to waste any more time with this Mr. Milosevic. Mr. Yemeni, your 'evidence' is so far fetched I'd like you to go before you waste any more of this court's time. Now get lost!"

[Incorrigible]

As a big fan of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, the trio that led to the demise of world communism as a threat to individual liberty throughout the world, I am stunned that I have been put into the position to have to shout the following:

FREE SLOBO!!!!

[A. Pole]

Enter Judge May. "The witness is not a forensic expert and cannot be expected to know these things." In other words, Mr. Hendrie's expertise had a dual nature. It was sufficient when he was testifying against Mr. Milosevic, but woefully inadequate when he was challenged.

Those proceedings are so bizarre and surreal that they beat the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Some day someone will write the theater piece or a book titled Slobo's Adventures in the Netherland. And the awesome "Judge May" is straight from the Lewis Carroll world. I cannot wait.

[botweiler]

First the verdict, then the "trial". We are all truly in the wonderland of Alice. Scary indeed.