[CTRL] Reichstag Fire Trial, the Sequel

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic]

The URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/point1.htm Send this article to a friend! www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] Reichstag Fire Trial, the Sequel by Jared Israel [3 July 2001] "I just saw Milosevic. He told this criminal Western kangaroo court that he doesn't recognize them. So I wish there was a lot more of those guys, like Milosevic." -- Comment of a refugee from the U.S.-installed Taliban regime in Afghanistan, presently residing in California, after watching President Slobodan Milosevic tell off the NATO's "Tribunal" earlier today. How can one describe it? Slobodan Milosevic, who has a genius for getting things right in a few words, calls it a "a genocidal circus." Should the powers-that-be have allowed it on TV? The images were stark: on the one hand, a modest man, genuine, very smart, accusing his accusers; on the other hand, a sugary nightmare of Empire. Now that the Americans run the world, they like to wheel out a British voice for effect ("they got class, you know") but it wasn't enough. Two times the voice, one 'Judge' Richard May, 'Chairman' of the 'Tribunal,' (in the New World Unreality, one is driven to excessive use of quotes...) had to hit the button on his desk cutting Milosevic off in front of 300 million viewers because things were not going according to script. I'll say one thing for May: he's good with that cutoff button. After Milosevic finishes making a complete fool of him, he'll easily find work as a radio Talk Show host. To the glib unreality of CNN's standard coverage, with cameras at first lingering on Stately Buildings and a reporter who talked like the guy who used to narrate 'Lives of the Rich and Famous,' was added the faux-judicial atmosphere of the Tribunal, which looks like a movie set designed by some overpriced ad agency. 'Chairman' May was a perfect TV pitchman, delivering memorized lines with what someone called "cut glass politeness" "You will have all possible rights under International Law,' he promised Slobodan Milosevic along with hundreds of millions of viewers at least six times, as if we're all fools, as if Milosevic were a fool, as if in this theme park of a court room with its bit actors in designer robes, this drone of a Chairman was addressing some fellow second rate actor rather than the man who led the country which for ten years resisted Washington's attempt to destroy it in violation of every international law, an actual statesman who had just been kidnapped by quisling Serbs - the greatest shame for all Serbs - kidnapped on orders of a monstrous foreign power, as if Slobodan Milosevic could reasonably be expected to act like a well behaved slave and say, 'yes, sir, anything you say, sir...' "It's a very complicated process," cooed false May. "Don't you think you might want to reconsider your decision to defend yourself?" "I consider this tribunal false tribunal and indictments false indictments. It is illegal, not being appointed by UN general assembly so I have no need to appoint council to illegal organ," said the real Slobodan Milosevic. "Mr. {President..." I think that was the first time May cut his mike. May pouted to the cameras, as if to say: 'Why is this man not cooperating?' But he maintained his cut-glass tones, explaining to the three hundred million that of course this unwise decision could be reversed anytime because NATO's court was entirely fair minded and now would or perhaps would not Mr. Milosevic care to exercise his inalienable right to listen to the indictment of lies? "That's your problem," said Milosevic. May looked definitely pained, telling the world: 'Now do you see why we had to drop uranium-encased bombs on them? ' "What is your plea?" "This Tribunal aims to produce false justification for the war crimes committed in Yugoslavia." "I asked you a question," said May, telling the world: 'Don't test us; we only have so much patience.' "And I have given you my answer," replied Milosevic. "This Tribunal - - " but May cut his microphone again. One almost expected the Director to shout "CUT! Mr. M., if it's not too much trouble, could you kindly stick to your lines? 'NATO Shows The World It Isn't Just Nazis With A Smiling Face,' Take Two!" *** Parting Thought: Do you recall that two days ago the "Telegraph" (and other papers) assured us that Milosevic's legal strategy would be to say "Sure I committed war crimes, but Western leaders helped me do it."  And remember that I said they were making the whole thing up? ( See: http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/dis.htm) Well, next time you read some article where Milosevic or somebody else opposing Washington is reported saying or doing something which it would REALLY help Washington for him or her to say or do, and you in your kindness of heart start to think, "There must be SOME truth to this - they couldn't just make the whole thing up," just recall the difference between what they told us Milosevic was going to say and what he in fact said.  Yes, Virginia, they CAN AND DO make the whole thing up! - J. I. *** URGENT APPEAL! 3 JULY TO THOSE WHO HAVE DONATED TO OUR FUNDRAISING APPEAL - THANK YOU! BUT EMPEROR'S CLOTHES STILL URGENTLY NEEDS HELP! The George Soros Foundation does not fund Emperor's Clothes. Our only source of money is people like you. All contributions help. Our work has expanded but our income has not kept pace. We are now several months behind on long distance and international phone bills, and other expenses as well. 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