To The Editor The Toronto Sun
From the Director of Christians Against Nato Aggression
1 Scales Road London N17 9HB
England
Tel: 0044 208 376 1454
Dear Sir,
The learned Ontario Court judge Thomas Heeney threw out a claim from
Serbian
victims of theNATO aggression because "to hold otherwise
would permit any
citizen in effect to hijack Canadian
foreign policy...."(Sun report 12 July 2002)
But Canadian foreign policy has already been hijacked!
The UK Government derives its authority to engage in military action
without
the consent of Parliament from a curious device known
as the "royal
prerogative."
I assume the same constitutional fiction applies in Canada as well.
But a UK magazine (Private Eye) reliably informed us that the Queen
didn't
know that her prerogative had been invoked, until she turned
on television &
found the RAF were bombing Belgrade!
So who makes foreign policy? Can NATO politicians just wake up one morning
&
decide to bomb somewhere because they have an intuitive
feeling they should
do this?
Aren't they accountable to anyone?
The Canadian & British Governments engaged in monstrous war crimes
during
the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(FRY), which is
why I sought to indict Mr Lloyd Axworthy, with other
NATO leaders, @ the
Highgate Magistrates Court London in May 1999 on
charges of conspiracy to
murder & to cause explosions in the
FRY.
The Magistrate wouldn't issue the proceedings, as he said there wasn't
enough evidence.
But the evidence now, that there was a conspiracy to subvert
international
law, & that Mr Axworthy was party to it is
voluminous!
Why do Canadians remain in denial?
Surely it is clear to everyone how the USA is a rogue state, a
debauched
Imperial power gone berserk.
US forces have been given another year, to kill, maim, rape,
mutilate &
incinerate other people, while the Canadians by
contrast have to behave!
It was not "to end attacks on ethnic Albanians" that the 1999
Yugoslav-Canadian war began.
Rather it was because Canada chose to assist the US in its global drive
for
hegemony. An expression of that policy was the opening of another
US
military installation, Camp Bondsteel, situated in Kosovo &
the largest US
base in Europe.
It was to demonstrate the power of Yankee Imperialism that thousands
of
entirely innocent people were killed & injured in Yugoslavia
by NATO bombs &
missiles - Canada, as usual, acting as lackey for
the US.
The cover story was "humanitarian war."
Yours sincerely
William Spring
