Guilty of Something

Justin Raimondo assumes, without evidence, that Slobo must be guilty of something. In what does this attitude differ from that of his jailers? Few non-Serbians are accused, most for decorum to create an illusion of impartiality. Guilty or not "of something," Milosevic's arrest and detention is a crime, a masquerade of justice.

~ William Markiewicz

Justin Raimondo replies:

The evidence is the bodies that continue to be exhumed. I agree that this trial – and the venue in which it is being held – is a farce, but the crimes appear to be real enough.

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The Warrior Class

I just wanted to congratulate Tom Bethell on a magnificent article on China and the evil Kristol Jr.

~ Walter Block

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Ethnic Cleansing

It is remarkable how the so-called Western media and human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have totally ignored the massive ethnic cleansing campaign against ethnic Macedonians in western Macedonia. The NLA terrorist/rebel group has begun a systematic and organized plan of ethnic cleansing in the Tetovo region. Ethnic Macedonians have been expelled at gunpoint from the villages of Jedoarce, Brezno, Setole, Otunje, Varvara, Jelosnik. One elderly ethnic Macedonian, Boris Magdenovski, who was deaf, was brutally murdered in Brezno on July 1 when he apparently did not understand the NLA demand that he leave his home.

The US and Western media has completely ignored and censored these acts of ethnic cleansing committed against Orthodox Christians as they did earlier in the Krajina, Bosnia, and Kosovo conflicts. Was Human Rights Watch ordered/told to "ignore" this violation of human rights? Why aren't the BBC, ITN, Reuters, AP, and UPI covering these human rights abuses? Where are the news accounts of Macedonian refugees?

~ Carl K. Savich, Serbianna.com

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Missile Defense

It seems to me that the unspoken assumption of every article on missile defense is that the United States is the only power interested in militarizing space. This is simply not the case. I would also ask how NMD can create a new arms race if it bloody never can work – these seem to be inherently contradictory arguments. It is time for opponents of militarizing space to drop the foolishness that "it will never work" or the pretense that for it to "work" it must be 100% effective, and get to the heart of the issue – do we want weapons in space? The USAF can bloody well tell the difference between a mylar bag and a missile putting out lots of thermal radiation in its vulnerable boost phase! I believe opponents of NMD stay away from arguing about weapons in space because they are fearful of being accused of only wanting the USAF to stay out of space while the Chinese, Russians and Indians make tiny strides in their own programs to do the same thing (in the former case with a great deal of American technology courtesy of Hughes and Loral).

Keep up the good work on anti-interventionism, though. We need more periodicals like Antiwar and a hundred more Ron Pauls in Congress to restore the question of peace and war to the people's representatives in Congress and away from the Executive branch.

~ Charles G., Fort Worth, TX