Posted on 03/20/2004 8:56:09 PM PST by Destro
Judge goes from Brooklyn to Kosovo
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO Staff Writer
March 20, 2004, 5:54 PM EST
Even in war-torn Kosovo, the killings at a swimming hole last summer were especially callous.
Some gunmen — no one knows how many — trained their Kalashnikov assault rifles on some Serbian teenagers trying to beat the heat with a swim. Three youngsters were shot dead. The gunmen escaped.
Judge Gustin L. Reichbach showed up within 20 minutes as the investigating magistrate. A long way from his usual station in Brooklyn's criminal court on Schermerhorn Street, Reichbach was on special assignment for the United Nations in the Balkans.
A crowd of angry Serbs quickly gathered and heaped scorn at the officials at the crime scene, Reichbach recalled recently. The Serbs railed against what they saw as a lack of police protection from Albanian criminals. Things were getting ugly fast.
Reichbach turned to face the mob and did something most unjudicial. He pulled open his shirt. Then he yelled, "Go ahead, punch me! Think that will help?"
This outburst from a judicial figure, he said, startled the crowd into cooperation.
Reichbach took the job after the New York State court system gave him the unprecedented liberty of taking a leave of absence to work for a cause he believed to be noble and just. He took a big cut in his $136,000 yearly salary and lost some time on his pension before returning to to Brooklyn last month. [A colleague, Justice Martin G. Karopkin, 57, retired on Jan. 1 from state Supreme Court and is n ow also serving as a judge in Kosovo].
An iconoclast who earned the sobriquet of the "condom judge" for his practice in the 1990s of giving condoms to prostitutes and drug users to prevent AIDS, Reichbach wears his liberalism openly. Concern for human rights, Reichbach said, set him on a course that led him to the Balkans.
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Good job "condom judge". Fewer Serbs are left now then before you arrived. Libralisim in action.
Well....actualy...yes.
Make the offer again sometime when you are in range.
BullSh*t
UN employees do not pay ANY taxes. In addition, the dear Judge gets some serious amounts of 'expenses' paid for him by the UN.
As a rule, people who sign up for the UNMIK gig have take home pay much greater than back home. Jeez, even Albanians complain about how overpaid & underqualified UNMIK staff is.
How many KLA did he convict ?
...and one can also earn some xtra money turning a blind eye to Albanian "mischiefs". Ask any former UN administrator.
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