Immediate Release: From William Spring CANA: Christians Against
|Nato
Aggression
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Jan 28th 2001
composed 2.30 am
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Just before
signing off I've picked up today's (now yesterday's) copy of
The
Times & came across a remarkable story by John Phillips.
"The
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic should be investigated for
the
deaths of 16 Serbian state television employees killed by NATO bombs
in
Belgrade in 1999...
"Carla del Ponte made the request from Davos,
Switzerland to President
Kostunica of Yugoslavia, tribunal officials
said.
"She claimed Mr Milosevic had been warned of the air strike
on the
television station but he had chosen to disregard the
information..."
I'm finding it hard to concentrate. I couldn't possibly
have read
this, could I, but there it is & I've just read it
again. It is a new world
order. The inmates have taken over the
asylum.
But I wonder: is Milosevic to be blamed for all the deaths
caused by NATO
bombs, for example the burning of train number 393 at the
Sarajevo Bridge
near Grdelica on April 12th 1999 ( - Ivan & Ana
Markovic died on that train,
young newly weds. The e mail from
their
Baptist pastor announcing this went all over the world.)
I
find Europe these days a very odd place. It's because I'm getting on
I
guess- but something is seriously screwy - either her or me.
In the
tough old world of terrorism & counter
terrorism the fact a bunch of
bombers send a warning before they blow
someone up doesn't mean that they
are extenuated from
responsibility for the murder.
(The warning may
not have been received, or it may have been misunderstood,
or there was no
warning & the terrorists simply said there was one, in order
to cover
their tracks. Whatever the status of a warning, & even if there
wasn't
one, it doesn't make the slightest scrap of difference in terms of
moral
& legal culpability.)
Basically people until I read this newspaper
report I thought I'd seen
everything. I thought the worst was reached when
Jamie Shea came to the
London School of Economics - to be dutifully
applauded by the Good Germans
there, the student body.
We would have
given him a bad time, the soixante huiteards..
But insanity, once
it gets a grip, grows.
Is she now certifiable? If so, so is Tony
Blair, who first put this
brilliant idea forward in an Alan Little
BBC TV documentary in March 2000
- words to the effect "we told them to get
out the building & they didn't,
so it's all
his
fault."
Talk about spin.
Maybe it's me - am I a
target for a Blairite historical re-education. "Once
there was a
nasty
little man in Belgrade who NATO didn't like, so NATO threw loads of
bombs
at this nasty little man, & he still wasn't killed, & do you
know he
wouldn't then admit it
was all his fault - that everybody else
was dead..."
How do you defeat this particular type of intellectual
self
manipulation/stimulation carried on for our benefit on a world
stage.
(It was the same unctuous little
prick/ war criminal
who took the podium at the Central Hall London last
night to celebrate
Holocaust Memorial Day.)
Pity the nation.
I'm signing off,
definitely. It isn't round anymore. It's definitely flat.
Yeats &
all that, centres don't hold. It used to be different. Come back
England of
the 1950's. I want to get out of this end of century
version.
Who's got the keys?
ends
Continued: 10:30 am that's
it folks. It's still here, the newspaper, I mean
she
did say
that.
It 's struck me, Shakespeare has a passage on the Del Ponte
illness:
"Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased...
And with
some oblivious antidote cleanse the charged bosom of that perilous
stuff
which weighs upon the heart?"
There the patient must minister to
himself.
"Throw physic to the dogs. I'll have none of
it."
DAY OF TRUTH FEBRUARY 24TH 2001 FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
EUSTON RD LONDON
Mrs Jela Jovanovic, art historian
