Posted on 04/08/2009 4:56:13 AM PDT by libstripper
Judge Baltasar Garzón, an ambitious Spanish jurist, last month ordered prosecutors to investigate six men who served in the Bush Administration on criminal charges related to "torture." None of the prospective defendants are accused of torturing or ordering the torture of anyone -- only of arguing for legal positions of which Judge Garzón disapproves. He asserts that the principle of "universal jurisdiction" gives him the authority to try U.S. officials for alleged violations of international law.
At a State Department briefing last week, a reporter asked Gordon Duguid, the acting deputy department spokesman, for the Obama Administration's position. His reply: "I'm not aware of any contact with the Spanish Foreign Ministry on this. It's a matter in the Spanish courts, as I'm given to understand. I don't have a comment for you on it at this time. The Obama Administration's position on the matters that are under discussion, I think are quite clear."
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“It’s a matter in the Spanish courts, as I’m given to understand. I don’t have a comment for you on it at this time.”
Read, “Present!”
Garzon is a celebrity judge. We don’t really have them in this country, because we have a different judicial system and, unlike most of Europe, we don’t have “investigating magistrates” who can launch their own investigations.
Garzon goes after anything and everything that offends the left, and therefore he usually gets quite a lot of support from politicians (and not only in Spain) and the press. He was the one who initiated the Pinochet case and his success has convinced him that no one is beyond his reach.
Garzon himself needs to be waterboarded.
Or keel-hauled.
You have to wonder why the Wall Street Journal left out the fact that this judge is a long-time, committed Marxist with an anti-American agenda that is visible from space.
Baltasar Garzon may be guilty of felony animal cruelty (attendance at an animal fight, specifically a bullfight) under the laws of Pennsylvania and numerous other states; only in two states is it not illegal to be a spectator at an animal fight. A couple of online articles say that he is a bullfighting fan.
The fact that the bullfights in question did not take place in the United States is irrelevant according to Senor Garzon’s own reasoning. I think we should file charges against him and seek his extradition.
Garzon’s defense attorney might seek to argue that a bullfight is not a fight between two animals but between an animal and men (I use the latter term very loosely for Spanish cowards sin cojones who torture an animal from a relatively safe distance), but the picadors’ horses are unwilling parties to the “fight,” and they run a risk of injury. Let’s get Interpol to arrest the bugger and drag him into a U.S. court!
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