블레어 영국 총리가 전쟁범죄 혐의로 국제 형사재판소에 기소될 예정이라고 하네요.
그리스 변호사 협회의 의장이 BBC회견에서 기소 준비중이라고 말했답니다.
미국은 국제 형사재판소에 서명을 하지 않은 상태라 부시 대통령은 기소대상에서
벗어나 있다고도 말합니다. 하지만 블레어 총리는 EU(유럽연합) 경찰에 의해 재판소에
이송될 수 있다고 합니다.... pagpawnt에서 가져왔어여...
신성한 계획의 실현이라는 정의와 신성함의 이름으로!
부디 균형속에 머무시길...
British Prime Minister Blair is Being Charged with War Crimes
before the International Criminal Court
What Goes Around Comes Around Paul Craig Roberts
Thursday, May 29, 2003 The BBC reports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair
is about to be charged as a war criminal by the Greek Bar Association before
the International Criminal Court. Dimitris Paxinos, president of the lawyers'
association, told the BBC that Blair will be charged with "crimes against
humanity and war crimes."
President George Bush escapes being charged, as the United States is not a
signatory to the ICC.
The Greeks claim that the U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq violates the United
Nations Charter, the Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention and the
International Criminal Court's statute.
Paxinos, who was elected by a conservative majority, says he is confident that
the evidence compiled by the bar association is strong.
Until recently, charges against a head of state could be laughed away.
Unfortunately for Tony Blair, he created the precedent for extraditing heads of
state. The Blair government arrested Chile's Augusto Pinochet and ruled that
Pinochet could be extradited to Spain on specious charges brought by a Spanish
prosecutor.
Arrested in October 1998 while in London for back surgery, the 82-year-old
Pinochet was held in England under house arrest while the majesty of British
law decided his fate. The stress on Pinochet of the drawn-out proceedings
resulted in two strokes.
His health destroyed, an 84-year-old Pinochet was released by Blair's Home
Secretary, Jack Straw, in March 2000 and was allowed to return to Chile.
Pinochet was a victim of Soviet propaganda. He was head of the Chilean army in
1973 when it was forced by popular demand and appeal from the elected
legislature to overthrow Salvador Allende, who was turning Chile into a Soviet
client state.
Pinochet had to combat Marxist terrorists during the 1970s and 1980s, using the
equivalent of the U.S. PATRIOT Act and military detention a la the U.S. camp at
Guantanamo Bay. With far fewer resources, Pinochet successfully put down a far
greater terrorist threat than the one currently faced by the United States.
During these years, Pinochet revived Chile's broken economy and restored the
country's legal and political systems. He succeeded, because he turned the
government over to civilian ministers with graduate educations from the
University of Chicago and Harvard.
He authorized a group of leading citizens to create a new constitution that
would restore democracy and representative government and used referendum to
legitimize the new political system.
Pinochet kept to the time schedule he had established and stepped down as
president of Chile in 1990, just as he said he would.
Pinochet was demonized by the international political left, and his health and
retirement were destroyed as a consequence.
Pinochet did not fight terrorism by invading foreign countries. The total
number of terrorists killed by the Chilean military is a fraction of the recent
Iraqi civilian casualties at the hands of U.S. and U.K. forces. Pinochet never
dropped bombs on civilians or sent missiles into residential neighborhoods.
At the time Pinochet was arrested by Blair's government as a sop to the
political left, the International Criminal Court did not exist. Cornell
University Professor Jeremy Rabkin demonstrated that there was no international
law giving Spain jurisdiction over Chile or giving Spanish magistrate Baltasar
Garzon jurisdiction over Pinochet.
Garzon hoped to create such a law by asserting it, and Blair foolishly went
along.
In 1998, it did not occur to Blair that five years later he would be roped into
invading Iraq on trumped-up charges that it was a hotbed of al-Qaeda terrorists
equipped with weapons of mass destruction.
Now Blair finds himself with a nasty bit of aggression on his record and as
many as 10,000 civilian casualties. That puts him in league with Slobodan
Milosovic, who at least was fighting terrorist separatists within his own
borders.
It is fairly certain that the Blair government is not going to hand over Blair
to the Greeks or to the ICC. If it did, Bush would send in the Special Forces
to rescue him. But if the ICC issues a warrant, Blair won't be able to go to
Greece or to any country that might hand him over to the ICC.
Indeed, once Blair achieves his goal of dissolving Great Britain into the
European Union, there will be no sovereign British government to protect him.
He could be picked up at will by EU police and handed over to the ICC.
With the United States becoming a multicultural Tower of Babel, who is to know
that Bush, too, in his old age won't be handed over by a Hispanic president who
has no concern for vanquished Anglo-American hegemony or agreements between
vanished cultures and nations.
Dr. Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has been published
by Prima Publishers.
Copyright 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Latin America
United Nations
War on Terrorism
그리스 변호사 협회의 의장이 BBC회견에서 기소 준비중이라고 말했답니다.
미국은 국제 형사재판소에 서명을 하지 않은 상태라 부시 대통령은 기소대상에서
벗어나 있다고도 말합니다. 하지만 블레어 총리는 EU(유럽연합) 경찰에 의해 재판소에
이송될 수 있다고 합니다.... pagpawnt에서 가져왔어여...
신성한 계획의 실현이라는 정의와 신성함의 이름으로!
부디 균형속에 머무시길...
British Prime Minister Blair is Being Charged with War Crimes
before the International Criminal Court
What Goes Around Comes Around Paul Craig Roberts
Thursday, May 29, 2003 The BBC reports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair
is about to be charged as a war criminal by the Greek Bar Association before
the International Criminal Court. Dimitris Paxinos, president of the lawyers'
association, told the BBC that Blair will be charged with "crimes against
humanity and war crimes."
President George Bush escapes being charged, as the United States is not a
signatory to the ICC.
The Greeks claim that the U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq violates the United
Nations Charter, the Geneva Convention, the Hague Convention and the
International Criminal Court's statute.
Paxinos, who was elected by a conservative majority, says he is confident that
the evidence compiled by the bar association is strong.
Until recently, charges against a head of state could be laughed away.
Unfortunately for Tony Blair, he created the precedent for extraditing heads of
state. The Blair government arrested Chile's Augusto Pinochet and ruled that
Pinochet could be extradited to Spain on specious charges brought by a Spanish
prosecutor.
Arrested in October 1998 while in London for back surgery, the 82-year-old
Pinochet was held in England under house arrest while the majesty of British
law decided his fate. The stress on Pinochet of the drawn-out proceedings
resulted in two strokes.
His health destroyed, an 84-year-old Pinochet was released by Blair's Home
Secretary, Jack Straw, in March 2000 and was allowed to return to Chile.
Pinochet was a victim of Soviet propaganda. He was head of the Chilean army in
1973 when it was forced by popular demand and appeal from the elected
legislature to overthrow Salvador Allende, who was turning Chile into a Soviet
client state.
Pinochet had to combat Marxist terrorists during the 1970s and 1980s, using the
equivalent of the U.S. PATRIOT Act and military detention a la the U.S. camp at
Guantanamo Bay. With far fewer resources, Pinochet successfully put down a far
greater terrorist threat than the one currently faced by the United States.
During these years, Pinochet revived Chile's broken economy and restored the
country's legal and political systems. He succeeded, because he turned the
government over to civilian ministers with graduate educations from the
University of Chicago and Harvard.
He authorized a group of leading citizens to create a new constitution that
would restore democracy and representative government and used referendum to
legitimize the new political system.
Pinochet kept to the time schedule he had established and stepped down as
president of Chile in 1990, just as he said he would.
Pinochet was demonized by the international political left, and his health and
retirement were destroyed as a consequence.
Pinochet did not fight terrorism by invading foreign countries. The total
number of terrorists killed by the Chilean military is a fraction of the recent
Iraqi civilian casualties at the hands of U.S. and U.K. forces. Pinochet never
dropped bombs on civilians or sent missiles into residential neighborhoods.
At the time Pinochet was arrested by Blair's government as a sop to the
political left, the International Criminal Court did not exist. Cornell
University Professor Jeremy Rabkin demonstrated that there was no international
law giving Spain jurisdiction over Chile or giving Spanish magistrate Baltasar
Garzon jurisdiction over Pinochet.
Garzon hoped to create such a law by asserting it, and Blair foolishly went
along.
In 1998, it did not occur to Blair that five years later he would be roped into
invading Iraq on trumped-up charges that it was a hotbed of al-Qaeda terrorists
equipped with weapons of mass destruction.
Now Blair finds himself with a nasty bit of aggression on his record and as
many as 10,000 civilian casualties. That puts him in league with Slobodan
Milosovic, who at least was fighting terrorist separatists within his own
borders.
It is fairly certain that the Blair government is not going to hand over Blair
to the Greeks or to the ICC. If it did, Bush would send in the Special Forces
to rescue him. But if the ICC issues a warrant, Blair won't be able to go to
Greece or to any country that might hand him over to the ICC.
Indeed, once Blair achieves his goal of dissolving Great Britain into the
European Union, there will be no sovereign British government to protect him.
He could be picked up at will by EU police and handed over to the ICC.
With the United States becoming a multicultural Tower of Babel, who is to know
that Bush, too, in his old age won't be handed over by a Hispanic president who
has no concern for vanquished Anglo-American hegemony or agreements between
vanished cultures and nations.
Dr. Roberts' latest book, "The Tyranny of Good Intentions," has been published
by Prima Publishers.
Copyright 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Latin America
United Nations
War on Terrorism