The Love Song of Arbour and Albright [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- The URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/lovie.htm Send this article to a friend! www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] The Love Song of Arbour and Albright Due to the stand taken by Slobodan Milosevic, everyone is asking: is the Hague 'Tribunal' a legitimate court? If it is not, if it is in fact a sham, then it must be an instrument of NATO/Imperial rule; there is no third alternative. And if it is an instrument of Imperial rule, used to demonize and punish those who, coming from materially poor countries, nevertheless dare to resist U.S. control, then citizens of the NATO countries must act against it. Otherwise, shall we not share a shameful responsibility? (1) Below are excerpts from a joint press conference held April 30, 1999, by Louise Arbour, then Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY (The Hague 'Tribunal') and U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright. A) At the time, the United States and other NATO countries had spent five weeks perpetrating the main international crime: waging an aggressive war against a state which had invaded no other. Moreover the United States and its allies: * Bombed civilian facilities (a war crime) * Dropped anti-personnel weapons (a war crime) * Bombed a train and at least one refugee column (both war crimes) * Bombed Serbian TV (a war crime) * And deliberately created an environmental catastrophe by bombing chemical facilities in Pancevo (a war crime). In the press conference, Arbour made no reference to these publicly known war crimes. Instead she accepted as her only field of concern NATO's accusations against Yugoslavia. These accusations, which have been over and over exposed as without foundation, and even lies, were used to justify the crime of bombing Yugoslavia. B) In this highly visible forum, Albright instructed Arbour to indict President Milosevic. [Start quote from Albright] Well, obviously, the question of what is going to happen to Mr. Milosevic is a subject that is very much on our minds, and Justice Arbour knows what we have said both publicly and privately; that she and the Tribunal need to follow out the trail of evidence to its conclusion. We, as I said, are supportive of her efforts. [End quote from Albright] Instead of rejecting what would be a gross and humiliating interference if the 'Tribunal' were a real court, Arbour coyly (and shamelessly) linked the execution of said indictment with increased funding and help in gathering (or, one should say, fabricating) evidence: [Start quote from Arbour] We are here, and elsewhere, to ensure that we get the assistance to move the cases forward in that direction. Whether it points to any particular individual, I think the law is very clear: there is no immunity before our Tribunal for heads of state. There's no immunity, essentially, for any individual, both in a personal or a command responsibility position. All our discussions take place in that framework.[End quote from Arbour] C) The crucial question to ask about any would-be judicial system is this: is it independent? That is why Justice is pictured wearing a blindfold. At the end of the excerpts is a special section featuring Arbour's references to NATO countries as her 'partners.' Hmmm. It occurs to me that if you just add one little 'e' to 'sham' it gives you 'shame.' --JI *** Press Conference Excerpts Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Justice Louise Arbour, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Joint Press Conference Washington, D.C., April 30, 1999 As released by the Office of the Spokesman U.S. Department of State Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Justice Louise Arbour, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Joint Press Conference Washington, D.C., April 30, 1999 As released by the Office of the Spokesman U.S. Department of State http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/1999/990430a.html SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Justice Arbour and I today discussed how the United States can provide more information to the Tribunal, and how to speed up delivery of potential evidence to The Hague. I assured her that we are asking Congress for additional resources for the Tribunal to meet new demands for investigations in Kosovo. And we discussed other needs of her investigations, which I am not going to get into, but which I assure you that the United States will do everything we possibly can to meet. We are also thinking ahead to the Tribunal's needs after the fighting stops. We have consulted with Justice Arbour and begun planning for how we could facilitate access by Tribunal investigators to crime scenes in Kosovo. The Tribunal now needs real-time support for its Kosovo investigations,
The Love Song of Arbour and Albright [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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