STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D. G. is an Australian on another list. He applauds the arrest of Milosevic, and is angry at the crowds in Belgrade demonstrating against the arrest. I sent him this response: D. G. wrote: "So let's go after the others instead of demonstrating in the streets for impunity for the few butchers who _are_ caught." It sounds logical, Dion. US newspapers echo your sentiments, acknowledging that Americans are beyond the reach of international justice, but, they say, arresting Milosevic is a start -- a welcome new trend that should make Kissinger uneasy. Newsflash: It's not a new trend. Dominant Europeans and Americans have been arresting international "criminals" for centuries. Those who resisted the takeover of Australia and America were regarded as "international criminals," even if the word "international" was not in use at the time. They were arrested or scalped here, or given smallpox blankets. You'd know better than I what methods the UK's emissaries to Australia used to deal with the "criminals" who didn't want to give up the best bits of land to the colonizers. Multiply these acts of genocide by some three-digit number, and we might approach the beginnings of this "new trend." The British arrested Gandhi in the 1940s, as a "criminal." The U.S. assisted in the arrest of Nelson Mandela a few decades ago, as a "terrorist." The CIA administered "justice" to Patrice Lumumba, by killing him. The same outfit helped Pinochet murder Allende and thousands of other Chilean leftists. None of these arrests or assassinations were challenged by the mainstream Western media. Au contraire, they were applauded. The US, with the help of Holbrooke, the man who dictated the Rambouillet accords, supplied Suharto with arms to kill one third of the inhabitants of East Timor -- all "terrorists." British forces have been arresting and killing Irish patriots for how long? Oh, the list is far too long, and my feet are far too cold. Nazis, as they spread out through Europe, never said they were hunting down defenseless scapegoats. They claimed, and the German people believed, they were rounding up terrorists. The Phoenix Program in Vietnam "arrested" over 20,000 "criminals," administering justice by throwing them out of helicopters. The US public mostly believed at the time that good guys were getting rid of bad guys. So this isn't about some new trend. It's the same old story. Criminals in the West create the list of "most wanted," and then tell the rest of us, through a passive and complicit media, who the bad guys are. The West's malefactors have something miles better than "impunity." Since they write the list, they just leave their names off. That saves them from having to employ impunity. They kidnap and arrest those who oppose them or accuse them. That's what the protesters in the streets of Belgrade are angry about. They don't believe the bloody-pawed foxes will give the goose a fair trial. The arrest of Milosevic, like the "arrest" of Noriega doesn't bring Kissinger or the criminals in NATO closer to retribution. Just the opposite. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
