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To: Hoplite; ninenot; sittnick; steve50; Hegemony Cricket; Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; FITZ; ...
What's to parse? The idiots ate their words.

I was busy the last few days and did not have the time to do a search related to your quotes. But I think that your spin should not be left without the reply, so I am doing it now.

The ITN, the British news station, responsible for the anti-Serbian photo hoax, tried to prejudice and divert the attention of the jury by claiming that atrocities were committed in this location. They brought a Muslim physician to make needed accusations and it worked also on the defendants who did not have the nerve to denounce the ruse.

So one of the defendants - Deichmann, stated :

""ITN lawyer Tom Shields stressed, during the trial, that the miserable condition of Trnopolje was noteworthy. The plaintiffs brought also as a witness, a Muslim Physician whom the guards forced to care for the camp's inhabitants in the Summer of 1992.
[...]
The Physician described on the witness stand the rape and assault of defenseless civilians. I never disputed these facts. His testimony was without question the most moving of the entire trial. Despite this, my impression was that this only influenced the Jury enough to score a few moral points for ITN. [...]"

He should have said instead - "even if these allegations are true (they well can be as biased and untrue as many others) they are a ruse intended to prejudice and distract the jury - they are not related to the hoax in question", but he wanted to appear impartial and not contrary. And now you replicate the same ruse.

The information and good analysis can be read at
Tragic error - Did LM sink the ship at their libel trial? .

48 posted on 10/14/2004 1:15:27 PM PDT by A. Pole (MadeleineAlbright:"I fell in love with Americans in uniform.And I continue to have that love affair")
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To: A. Pole
No wonder you're terminally confused - using Emperor's Clothes as a source for anything other than idle amusement at the terminally confused antics of the far left of the political spectrum.

Do you have any clue as to what the Trnopolje case was actually about? Living Marxism was taking issue with the comparison between Trnopolje and German run concentration camps, and based their attack on the ITN story upon the theory that the inmates at Trnopolje were actually there of their own accord, and were free to leave at any time they wished, and that ITN had knowingly misrepresented the camp.

When it came time to back up those assertions in a court of law, they, how would we put this today - "flip-flopped", and made the statements I quoted for the record, and supported ITN's position on the matter of who was behind the wire and whether they were free to leave or not.

So take your stupid marxist loving Jared Israel website and shove it, Pole - a broken watch may be good enough for you to tell the time with, but you damned well better not go around advertising the fact that your information is coming from such a morally and intellectually bankrupt source.

Whoops, too late for that.

Give it a rest already - the verdict has come in on the Bosnian Serbs' actions during their war to create their part of Greater Serbia, and they have been found wanting in humanity, decency, and not to say the least, honesty, which leaves you here fighting a war that's already been lost.

49 posted on 10/14/2004 1:49:09 PM PDT by Hoplite
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