At 22:31 16/09/1999 +0800, Dion Giles wrote:
>This mighty be how it would look -- Dion Giles, Fremantle, Western Australia
>---------------------------------------------------------
>http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Timor/satire.htm
>
>An Interview with the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for
>the Former Portuguese Timor
>
>There may be no busier woman in the world than the president of the
>International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Portuguese Timor. On Sept. 6
>she found time to sit for a 20-minute interview at her office in The Hague.
>
>"What has been your greatest accomplishment in your 18 months as president
>of the Tribunal?"
>
>"Without question, the 53 indictments. As yet we've apprehended only eleven
>suspected war criminals - all low-ranking Indonesian army officers or foot
>soldiers - and brought six to trial. But we convicted all six."
>
>"Of what crimes?"
>
>"Torture, rape and murder, and in two cases, ordering underlings to commit
>those acts.........................................."
>
Hi everyone,
Oh to be able to dream! It would be wonderful if this could, even
remotely, happen. But the General (and his supporters and allies) probably
owns a few hundred thousand acres of land with timber and mines and day
workers. That makes him financially influential. And what greater influence
is there in this world than owning lumps of the planet It is what
politicians are made of. And "We, the people" actually vote for them.
Outstanding in all this Timor mess has been the most obvious hypocracy
of
the "leaders". All jockeying for brownie points and desperately trying not
to commit themselves to anything that may disturb their income. Above all
the UN has shown itself to be criminally negligent once again. So as a
little add on to the article could we add the names of Koffi Annan? The
charge? Criminal negligence. And his henchmen would be all the members of
the Security Council.........!
David
These are the simple facts:
If you have no land to live from, you are dependent on money
to purchase the
products of the land;
If you have no money to live from, you depend on employment
to gain the money;
If you have no employment, then dependent on the
State;
If the State refuses you, you beg for the charity
of the rich;
If there is no charity, you steal or you die.
Such is the chain which binds us to each other, and to the
land.
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