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Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 10:07 PM
Subject: Freedom of Speech ? - Not for those who've been demonized,
accused, tried and prosecuted by the "Free" media
First, read this astonishing account... Then (below) take a
look at one or two
comments it has attracted on the net - (Needless to say,
there ain't a whole lot
being said about it in the mainstream Western
media... so savour the irony of it
while you can)
JJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Elich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Saturday, August 25, 2001 11:07 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject:
Milosevic Threatened with "Loss of Privileges" After Giving U.S. Television
Interview
Associated Press
August 24, 2001
MILOSEVIC THREATENED WITH LOSS OF PRIVILEGES
AFTER GIVING U.S.
TELEVISION INTERVIEW
By Anthony Deutsch, Associated
Press
Amsterdam, Netherlands (AP) Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic
was warned Friday that he could lose jail privileges after he gave
an
unauthorized interview to Fox television.
Fox said Milosevic
initiated the interview by phoning the station from a
telephone just outside
his cell at the U.N. detention unit at The Hague,
where he is awaiting trial
for alleged war crimes against Kosovo Albanians
in 1999.
''We found
out that he had spoken with a journalist in violation with the
rules of
detention and he has been warned that if there was to be a
repetition that it
could result in a withdrawal of all privileges,'' said
Jim Landale, spokesman
for the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. ''The situation
is crystal clear to
him.''
Fox said in an e-mail that Milosevic was surrounded by guards
during the
phone call, but they did not intervene.
Landale said he
could not confirm the circumstances of the call. He called
the incident
''regrettable'' and said Milosevic had claimed he was unaware
he had broken
rules by giving the interview.
Landale said Milosevic could forfeit his
communications privileges, except
with an attorney present. Detainees are
normally free to buy prepaid
telephone cards at the prison
store.
Milosevic is known to frequently telephone family, supporters and
leaders of
his political party in Belgrade.
According to a transcript
of the interview, Milosevic again charged that the
tribunal is illegitimate
and denied Serb forces had systematically committed
war
crimes.
''There are individual crimes, but there was clear order that any
crime has
to be punished immediately and whoever did it have to be
arrested,'' he
said.
As proof, ''more than 500 different individuals
were arrested by the police
or the army,'' he said. Crimes ''were
consequences of chaotic situation
created by massive bombing of
NATO.''
Milosevic was transferred to the tribunal June 28 from Belgrade,
where he
had been arrested in April on charges of abuse of power and
corruption
during his 13-year rule. The former leader declined to enter a
plea or
appoint lawyers to defend him against the war crimes accusations, and
the
judges entered innocent pleas to all the charges.
Asked in the
interview if he regretted the tens of thousands of people
killed during the
Balkan wars, Milosevic said: ''All of us are sorry for the
death of any
person all around the world.''
Milosevic said he had always acted in the
interest of a united Yugoslavia,
and expressed confidence in his public
support back home.
''I have very, very wide and very strong support
within my people,'' he
said. ''So, they understand how they have brought that
puppet regime now in
Belgrade with those stolen elections and they understand
that that is the
way to occupy Yugoslavia, and everything is now worse than
it was before.''
Milosevic, who was ousted from power in October, was
succeeded by President
Vojislav
Kostunica.
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Comments
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From:
Mitchell Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Freedom of Expression
[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2001, 6:25 pm
Ain't it amazin'? But what can we expect. We hear over
and over again by the 'authorities' that "we don't want to try this case in
the media." All the while the complicit media churns out hundreds of
column inches (or hours of air time) blindly supporting all the bile spewed by
the authorities, bolstering whatever position is advanced by them.
What it boils down to is, the ICTY have every right to 'try the case
in the media'...
while the accused are to be bound and gagged like
Hannibal Lecter to meekly await
their preordained destiny.
'Democracy' my aching back!
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From:
apliedms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Re: Freedom of Expression [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2001, 5:53
pm
Sorry guys, but you are missing the humour of this
story.
Miloshevic actually bought a calling card in the local prison
shop.
Then, he called from a public telephone in front
of his cell a Fox TV
station in the US or Europe.
He, then waited dully to be connected to a
journalist
who performed the interview. All in front of a couple
of
burly prison guards who were not told by their crooked
judges and
prison officials that he is not allowed to do this.
Plus, after the event
he told the crooked judge that now he
understands (of course, as an
authoritarian bully usually
demands - crystal clear) that he is not supposed
to give
TV interviews as a prisoner.
He is a lawyer, but he did not
know this, you know.
Finally, he made asses of the crooked judges and
their
charade court. Yet the judges were stupid enough to make
their
irritation (and own stupidity) public.
Milosevic will not repeat this
again. But, I bet he will
find some other way to make monkeys and
asses of them...
(pity, we diminish these poor, good natured animals by
comparing them with this refuse of humanity - NATO judges).
What a
hilarious piece de resistance from a typical Serb.
See, this is why the
Germans (who have no sense of humour)
hate Serbs (and Jews) so
much.
I am still laughing. But, they may kill him and make it
look a suicide if they lose patience with a Serb who is
still not scared
and simply refuses to play by their rules.
Z
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From:
Jim Yarker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
RE: Freedom of Expression [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2001, 5:35
pm
Talk about your textbook cases of muzzling free speech.
Somebody
get on the blower to Amnesty and Human Rights Watch over
this.
If this was a KLA narcotrafficker, they'd have already convened
a press conference for his benefit by now.
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From: Lee
Mager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Freedom of Expression [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Date: Sat, Aug 25, 2001, 5:15
pm
So, Milosevic tried to bring to public knowledge his views on his
illegal detainment by a bunch of murdering liars? The scoundrel...!
I
tell you, the more I hear about that "dreadful"
man...
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