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This is in fact not new, only now more specific. it's
atheme which has been pounded out on the Whitehall
propaganda drums regularly at invervals for about the
past year.
--- Miroslav Antic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Dear friends,
>
> Having just met with Chris Black, who heads
> Milosevic's legal team, I
> can say
> with conviction: the 'Telegraph' claim that
> Milosevic would 'defend'
> himself
> by repeating the Western media's slanders of him -
> some defense! - is a
> complete fabrication, pure disinformation. Please
> forward this denial
> to all
> to whom you may have sent the Telegraph's lies!!
>
> The 'Telegraph' telegraphed this same bullshit a
> month or so ago, and I
> refuted it in the following article:
>
> The URL for this article is
> http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/dis.htm
> www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes]
>
> AND NOW, FROM LONDON, YOUR MILOSEVIC MISINFO FOR THE
> DAY
>
> The excerpt below is from the London 'Telegraph.'
> This newspaper has no
> connection with the Belgrade 'Telegraph' which
> published a transcript of
> an
> alleged phone conversation between Serbian Prime
> Minister Djindjic and
> Yugoslav President Kostunica before they illegally
> kidnapped President
> Milosevic. (1)
>
> The London 'Telegraph' article is educational for it
> demonstrates the
> extent
> to which the media spreads pro-Washington
> misinformation about the
> Serbian
> people in general and Slobodan Milosevic in
> particular. (2)
>
> The 'Telegraph' writers claim they have spoken to
> Milosevic lawyers and
> ferreted out details of Mr. Milosevic's legal
> strategy. This is
> remarkable
> since Milosevic's Legal Defence team has not yet
> been assembled. That
> is,
> there is no lawyer in the world from whom they could
> have ferreted.
> These
> details of strategy are purely fictional.
>
> According to the 'Telegraph,' Mr. Milosevic will
> make the following
> argument:
> "Sure I did bad things, but British leaders helped
> me." According to the
>
> 'Telegraph,' in this way Milosevic will show that
> "NATO is guilty" and,
> adds
> the 'Telegraph,' NATO leaders are very nervous.
>
> Sure they are.
>
> I can tell you one thing with certainty. The
> "Yes-I-am-bad-but-you
> helped-me-do-it-so-you're-guilty-too" argument will
> NOT be part of Mr.
> Milosevic's legal strategy.
>
> For years, outrageous actions by NATO were preceded
> by a kind of
> mock-criticism in the press. Media pundits would
> attack the Serbs for
> some
> atrocity, invariably fictitious. They would then
> castigate this or that
> NATO
> government (particularly the governments of the U.S.
> and England) for
> failing
> to take sufficiently strong action against the
> 'Serbian monsters.'
>
> Since people tend to identify with anti-governmental
> critics, this
> approach
> has the beauty of producing public support for even
> harsher government
> actions in the guise of attacking uncaring
> officials.
>
> When the NATO governments proceeded to take harsh,
> unfair and
> unjustified
> actions against the Serbs, the ground had been
> prepared. Instead of
> being
> furious at the blatant imperialism of NATO
> intervention, a section of
> the
> public thought, "Well it's about time they did
> something about those
> Serb
> fascists. Better late than never."
>
> Now the 'Telegraph' is suggesting that Mr. Milosevic
> will use the same
> sort
> of argument, though in retroactive form, saying,
> "Who are they to preach
>
> about war crimes? While I was committing all those
> war crimes they sat
> on
> their hands or even helped me." If Mr. Milosevic
> were to adopt such an
> approach, he would accomplish two things for NATO.
> First he would agree
> that
> he (and of course the Serbian people) was guilty as
> charged. Second, he
> would
> justify NATO's most aggressive actions. And third,
> such a defence would
> be
> devastating to those who want to use this 'trial' to
> attack NATO and the
>
> Tribunal and clear the name of the Serbs.
>
> For the record, I have contacted a representative of
> the Socialist Party
> of
> Serbia. Speaking for the Head Committee, he had the
> following comment
> about
> the 'Telegraph's' claims:
>
> "This, and you may quote me, is *expletive meaning
> horse manure*." (SPS
> spokesman, interviewed by phone, 1 July 2001)
>
> When Mr. Milosevic was being 'processed' at The
> Hague. He reportedly
> said:
>
> "I am not afraid of the Hague tribunal...that is no
> court but a political circus aimed at jeopardizing
> the Serb
> people....And let
> me tell you one thing - you are not arresting me,
> you are kidnapping me
> and
> you will answer for your crimes. Drop the
> buffoonery, let's hurry up."
> ('AP,'
> 30 June 2001)
>
> I contacted Chris Black, Chairman of the Lawyers
> section of the
> International
> Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic. (3) Mr.
> Black suggests that,
> based on
> common sense, and knowing Mr. Milosevic's political
> principles, one
> might
> expect the following legal defence:
>
> 1) The Hague is a tool illegally created by the UN
> Security Council
> under
> orders of Washington; it functions in violation of
> all legal standards
> to
> demonize and brutalize Serbian leaders and the
> Serbian people.
>
> 2) NATO and its proxy forces are the ones guilty of
> war crimes. Covering
> this
> up is a key function of the Tribunal.
>
> 3) The media has systematically lied, slandering the
> Serbian people, in
> coordination with NATO and its solely owned
> subsidiary, the Tribunal.
>
>
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