>From Emeror's Clothes Back to the dark ages? by Jared Israel (5-8-00) Reprinted from www.emperors-clothes.com Star Chamber [definition] Star Chamber (stär) noun 1. A 15th-century to 17th-century English court consisting of judges who were appointed by the Crown and sat in closed session on cases involving state security. 2. star chamber (stär chAm¹ber). A court or group that engages in secret, harsh, or arbitrary procedures. [So called because the ceiling of the original courtroom was decorated with stars.] In the Introduction to Scandal In the Hague I commented that the perversion of justice embodied in the War Crimes Tribunal is an attempt to politically shatter and demonize the Bosnian Serbs. On reflection, it is more. By endorsing star chamber methods, including the use of secret witnesses, the denial of the defense's right to cross-examine, the holding of defendants for indefinite periods without recourse, and by trumpeting these methods as a breakthrough for international law, the Tribunal may foreshadow the Western elite's judicial goals for the 21st century. >>> Scandal In the Hague @ http://www.emperors- clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/scandal.htm <<< We have posted the petition to Support the Yugoslav Prisoners' Hunger Strike. >>> @ http://emperors-clothes.com/news/support.htm <<< This petition is a defense of the rights of all people. To put matters bluntly: Rome is burning. Shall we fiddle? Shall we allow the power elite in the US, Britain and a few other Western countries to turn back the clock, to recreate the Dark Ages in modern dress? The standards applied in the War Crimes Tribunal, described by Christopher Black in An Impartial Tribunal? Really? >>> @ http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/Impartial.htm <<< and by Robert Hayden in UN War Crimes Tribunal Delivers a Travesty of Justice >>> @ http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/unwar.htm <<< and in great detail in Raymond Kent's Contextualizing Hate >>> @ http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/kent.htm <<< are being applied in Kosovo where the courts are openly being modeled after the War Crimes Tribunal. If Kosovo, why not Bulgaria? And if Bulgaria, why not Holland? And why not the US? Aren't Black people in the US already confronted with this standard of justice? We need a worldwide movement connecting these issues. A defense of the most basic legal rights - Bill of Rights stuff - is needed, a defense which involves people from all countries and many walks of life. Documents like the ones mentioned above, by Hayden, Kent and Black, and Pumphrey's honest look at Srebrenica - these are precious if we do not want a world modeled on Kosovo, Bosnia and the War Crimes Tribunal. I have posted two articles from Agence France Presse >>> @ http://emperors-clothes.com/news/justice.htm <<< relating to the Kosovo prisoners. Note, in the first article, datelined Pristina, how the writer and the people he quotes treat the most basic denial of rights, for instance, holding prisoners for a year without charge, as perfectly reasonable. This imprisonment without a hint of due process is brushed off as being understandable given how things work in Kosovo - as if Kosovo were a living entity beyond NATO's grasp, as if NATO had not itself created the current 'legal' system by installing the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or UCK) as the civil government throughout the province, and by in fact controlling the KLA from above. Note also that while the writer implies Kosovo has a system of justice under attack from all sides and hindered by rapid change, in fact the only prisoners he mentions are Serbs and 'Gypsies'. The practice of holding these people without charge proves they are not in jail for committing some crime; if they were suspected of committing an actual crime, why have they not been charged? Isn't it clear they are being held as political prisoners, perhaps in the hopes that they will break so that they can be used as witnesses in a show trial? And isn't this legal system part of the campaign of terror against Serbs, Roma ("Gypsies") and antifascist Albanians? *** Further reading... The Kosovo town of Orahovac is one area in which local Serbs have been literally held hostage to unspecified charges, rumors and suggestions of war crimes. The following two articles tell the amazing story. # 1 - To read interviews with the women from Orahovac, click on Save the families: The women of Orahovac speak or go to http://www.emperors- clothes.com/misc/savethe.htm # 2 - Trouw, the Dutch daily, interviewed Col. Tony van Loon, the Dutch KFOR (NATO) Commander in Orahovac. Excerpts from that interview with responses by two women from Orahovac can be read by clicking on The Women of Orahovac Answer the Colonel or going to http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/trouw.htm *** If you find emperors-clothes.com useful, we can use your help... All our expenses are covered by individual donations. Right now we are behind on phone bills (we use the phone for interviews and editorial meetings) and for Lexis, the wonderful Internet tool that we use to research articles. Any donation will help with these expenses and for special projects like 'JUDGMENT', the new film we just produced. You can Order Judgment now! 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