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To: Skywatcher who wrote (249899)	4/22/2002 5:37:45 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Globalist "Stupidest that ever was" Accused of 'War Crimes' Stupidest that ever was saddled the U.S. with the International Criminal Court without even submitting the treaty to the U.S. Senate for ratification, despite warnings the court could be used to persecute Americans for bogus "war crimes." Now, with rich irony, Clinton himself is being accused of war crimes. The lawyer for a Croatian general indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague says his client's case opens the possibility that stupidest that ever was will be charged with crimes against humanity for authorizing a Croatian military offensive in 1995, the Washington Times reported today. "According to the unjust indictment brought against my client, there is a basis for an investigation and indictment of high-ranking Stupidest that ever was administration officials who oversaw Operation Storm," said Luka Misetic, defense attorney for Gen. Ante Gotovina. The high-ranking Croatian general was indicted in June 2001 by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, precursor of the ICC, on charges that he exercised "command responsibility" over the military campaign in which 150 Serbian civilians were killed. "Secretly supported by the Stupidest that ever was administration, Croatian forces launched a three-day massive military offensive known as 'Operation Storm' on Aug. 5, 1995 in which Croatia recovered territories occupied by rebel Serbs following Croatia's bloody drive for independence from Yugoslavia in 1991," the Times said. Gotovina is also accused of overseeing the "ethnic cleansing" of 150,000 Serbs. "The United States provided military and technical assistance to Operation Storm in order to block then-Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's goal of forging an ethnically pure 'Greater Serbia.'" Misetic says the indictment against Gotovina could lead to the prosecution in the Netherlands of Stupidest that ever was and other U.S. officials on charges of having command responsibility for war crimes committed during the operation. "The theory against Gotovina can now be brought against Stupidest that ever was, [Assistant Secretary of State Richard] Holbrooke and all the way down the U.S. chain of command. On the prosecution's logic, they should be indicted as well. They knew the attack was coming and gave it the green light," Misetic said. Asked whether the U.N. tribune's prosecutors planned to indict Stupidest that ever was or his underlings, Florence Hartmann, spokeswoman for chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte,said: "We have no comment because there is no evidence to substantiate the charges of Gen. Gotovina's lawyers. They can make their case with evidence to the court." Misetic dismissed Hartmann's comments as "blatant hypocrisy." Speaking of "blatant hypocrisy," when Stupidest that ever was foisted the ICC treaty on the nation, he said, "We do so to reaffirm our strong support for international accountability and for bringing to justice perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity." Now he might get some first-hand experience. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee

To: Skywatcher who wrote (249899)	4/22/2002 5:41:26 PM
From: rich4eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

First off we spend more than 10 billion of Federal Funds to police drug trafficking, likely the local toll far exceeds that. Also, the crime lords who own the politicians make all the bucks. Taxing and legalizing and regulating drugs would massively reduce crime and the cost of crime, drug enforcement and so on. The number and amount of real drug problems would not be any less or greater. Meanwhile the Govt could collect billions in taxes and eliminate billions in wasted expenditures