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SLOBO AVOIDS CONVICTION
Former Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic has died at 64.
No reason we can’t try a corpse. Let’s still get it all on record to fuck with the postmodern historians in the future.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 11 at 01:25 PM • permalinkU.N. runs death camp in The Hague -first Babic, now Slobo. Close The Hague now!
Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2006 03 11 at 02:34 PM • permalinkThose sinecurists in the Hague must be in a tizzy. “Quick, find another Class A war criminal.”
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2006 03 11 at 03:08 PM • permalinkHis death was the only way this joke of a trial was going to end. I assume he’s eating tonight with Hitler and Stalin, to name a few.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 03 11 at 03:36 PM • permalink#15 Yes, actually, he was so bad.
It will be a sad day when we start to feel sympathy for war criminals simply because some of their victims were Muslims.
Posted by Lionel Mandrake on 2006 03 11 at 04:09 PM • permalinkMilo was heartless yet, he was reported to have died of a heart attack.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 03 11 at 05:42 PM • permalinkTwo thugs facing trial for vicious crimes against humanity dead in their cells within the last week.
The rule of three is finally working as it should. Saddam, get ready to leave the building.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 03 11 at 05:51 PM • permalinkAnd you can call me a sadist for putting this out, but here’s a scenario I find strangely satisfying.
1 - Lock Saddam in his cell;
2 - Start tape of Kim Beazley speech;
3 - Thirty seconds later, slide loaded pistol under door.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 03 11 at 05:55 PM • permalinkjlc ,has a point.And yes it does look like Kosovo is lost to the muslims,it looks as if they just out bred us.Where next,France?I have a feeling that Sloobo just saw the future a bit quicker than everybody else and acted accordingly.I know this tricky and potentially ugly ground,but I was very ill at ease with NATO bombing Serbia.Its just a thought,and you know that Im insane anyhow.
Hmmm.
Rule of three’s. Can Castro be far behind now?
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 03 11 at 06:35 PM • permalinkmilosevic marched into slovenia when it declared independence from the yugoslavian federation. he poured troops into croatia when that country also declared its intention to throw off serbian control. the bosnian conflict was similarly an effort to maintain the the serbian domination that existed under tito, when the states in the federation were nominally autonomous but in effect control resided in belgrade. milosevic was about serbian primacy, not an anti-muslim crusade. he was anti everyone but serbs. the largely secular muslims of bosnia were joined by mujahadeen, and there are now pockets of islamic radicalism in bosnia, but i’d be very surprised if fundamentalism gets a real foothold in bosnia-hercegovina
ot - the czechs are urging europe to throw of the yoke of the banana straighteners in brussels
The Czech President Vaclav Klaus outlined his vision of a future European
Union to university students in Trento, northern Italy, where he received
an honorary doctors’ decree on Saturday. In his lecture, Mr. Klaus said
the European Union had integrated more than was necessary or rational. He
criticized what he called supranational decision-making in Brussels and
recommended that the EU be redefined in line with the original idea of a
free trade, open market region of strong, independent states.Are Christian Peacemaker Teams investigating?
They’ve got a head start on the case.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 11 at 08:16 PM • permalinkI don’t think that’s an appropriate thing to say. There was no campaign islamic agitation and violence against non-muslims leading up to Slobo’s little pogrom. What turbulence there was was nationalistic. These people had lived together for 50 years under Tito, with some sane management and diplomacy the breakup of the soviet imperialist fiction called ‘Yugoslavia’ could have been managed without bloodshed. But oh no.
Slobo was a vile little racist murderer and opportunist who thought he’d start a little war and ride it to power. He calculated that the sanctimonious Eurotrash were too spineless to stop him and he was right.
He wasn’t anyone’s scumbag, just a scumbag.
#3 RebeccaH: Thanks, I was looking for the right words to express what I felt; yours fit exactly. :-)
#30 jlc:
He may have been a scumbag, but he was our scumbag.
No, he wasn’t. I’m no apologist for Islam, but I won’t be hugging the memory of a murdering swine like Milosevic to my bosom. He’s the reason that radical Islam has a glimmer of hope in Bosnia. Far from being an ally, he’s just thrown petrol onto the fire (and then died before he has to fully face the consequences). And all for the worthless cause of Serbian nationalism. If he was really the friend of the anti-Islamic movement he would have invaded Iran or <insert fundamentalist Islamic state here> - not a bunch of peaceful people living in a secular society.
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 03 11 at 10:14 PM • permalinkUN Justice! Annans bunch bored Mis to death. I say let them give Sad-ass the same long-drawn out road to death, a trial where the monster wont be given a chance to spout off because everybody else is sounding off. OOOOPS! Never mind. They’d acquit this bastard in 15 minutes and Norway would give him the Peace Prize.
I’m with Snuffy and Amos. Everytime we don’t play foriegn policy with a straight bat it comes back to bite us. Slobo was an enemy not an ally. That’s not to say the choices are always easy eg Saddam versus Khomenei 20 plus years ago but Slobo was pure poison and if he was anyone’s man I would have thought it was Moscow’s
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 03 11 at 10:56 PM • permalink#35:
I suspect Milosevic saw himself in the tradition of Tito who wasn’t terribly bloc-bound either, but mostly committed to the idea of a Greater Yugoslavia, so Slobo was really nobody’s man but his own. If anything, I’d classify him as a poor man’s Mussolini. Good riddance to his reign back in the 1990s, and good riddance to him as a person now.
If Saddam Hussein was being tried by the court in The Hague it would stretch to 10 years and he would probably be acquited on the grounds of temporary insanity. It would be interesting to know what the cost was for Sloberlot’s trial after 4 years.
I seem to recall a media report suggesting that apart from high blood pressure and a dicky heart he was also a diabetic, so he wasn’t exactly in good health.
Inciters this am broke the story today on Milosevic.Firstly they attempted to ambush Downer on the A.W.B. “story” read beat up about Downer’s shares in a blind trust,which a knowledgable aquaintance(no friend of the Libs) said was perfectly straight and respectable. Turns out this trust had AWB for a short time in 2002.
Cassidy made no fewer than six attempts to “push” Gillard as a potential leader..this ties in with the theory that the abc deliberately used “Oz Story” last week to thrust her into the limelight as a candidate.Thus manipulating politics which is not in their charter.
They managed to keep their faces straight about Milosevic, unlike the Growler on sbs, who ended the bulletin with a wide,glowing smile (only the second smile I have seen from her).
I could not decide whether that was her celebrating the war criminal’s death or rejoicing in the discomfort of Winston Churchill’s admirers and supporters.
SBS news screened much footage of a new “statue” in England,dedicated to the “cause” of the mentally ill.
Indeed the artist/sculpter must have been a few chisels short of a set, portraying Churchill in a straight jacket -yes really.
This embarrasment of an art piece was to demonstrate that Winston suffered from deep depression at times during his towering leadership in world war two.
Goodness me, I think that statue will be so highly regarded by the Brits that they will need to guard it day and night.
The Growler and her cohorts love it already.
Meanwhile Inciters today were Megalogonis (phat phil’s phriend),Ms Middletum (the red ringnecked parrot) and Piers the very Large.
Interestingly sbs news also suggested that because of the death of a journalist in Iraq -THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS.
Best media today was Simon Crean pretending very badly, that he had come to PRAISE Beazley, not to BURY him…..PW — Don’t a lot of the current troubles in the former Yugoslavia arise from Tito’s policy of relocating ethnic groups into “enclaves” in each other’s territory to weaken them so they would not challenge Belgrade’s rule?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 12 at 12:57 PM • permalinkNumber of inmate deaths at Guantanomo Bay last year: zero
Number of inmate deaths at the Hague last year: at least two
Why doesn’t Human Rights Watch investigate the Hague for human rights violations?
Posted by Tatterdemalian on 2006 03 12 at 07:27 PM • permalinkThis just in: Slobodan Milosevic still dead.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 12 at 07:36 PM • permalink#45 - Just to be sure, richard, let’s hammer a stake through his heart. Although I’m bloody surprised to learn that he had one.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 03 12 at 09:33 PM • permalinkThe standard reaction of a Slovene… is to say: “yes, this is how it is in the Balkans, but Slovenia is not part of the Balkans; it is part of Mitteleuropa; the Balkans begin in Croatia or in Bosnia; we Slovenes are the last bulwark of European civilisation against the Balkan madness.” If you ask, “Where do the Balkans begin?” you will always be told that they begin “down there”, towards the south-east. For Serbs, they begin in Kosovo or in Bosnia where Serbia is trying to defend civilised Christian Europe against the encroachments of this Other. For the Croats, the Balkans begin in Orthodox, despotic and Byzantine Serbia, against which Croatia safeguards Western democratic values…Many arrogant Frenchmen associate Germany with Eastern Balkan brutality—it lacks French finesse. Finally, to some British opponents of the European Union, Continental Europe is a new version of the Turkish Empire with Brussels as the new Istanbul—a voracious despotism threatening British freedom and sovereignty.
—Slavoj Zizek, 1999Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2006 03 12 at 09:33 PM • permalinkIt’s also remarkable what I heard on Radio National with Jolly Fran this morning.
She had Krudd on, and put it too him that the ALP might have some problem with the new ambassadorial appointment to Australia, seeing how he was an old chum of GWB, doncha know?
For once (and I do not expect it to happen again too soon) Krudd spoke with vigour and correctness at the same moment.
He said that the USA was a very close and valued ally and that any person they chose to appoint was just fine, and it was not our place to question that appointment.
It was delicious, just imagining the look on Fran’s jolly* face as she heard this slapdown.
(Fran Kelly, the presenter of ABC Radio National’s Breakfast program, is an artless, jolly, hockey sticks sort of girl. Christopher Pearson here but maybe not for much longer.
I would have to disagree with Christopher’s summary - Fran never misses an opportunity to assist the ALP or any anti-Howard forces. Not artless, but perhaps she does use hockey sticks to beat up on conservatives.
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