Why The Genocide Trials?



(This column courtesy of Agape Press.)


Yet however happy we are that these men face justice, the question no one is asking is whose justice they should face, or what value “international justice” has at all. The whole notion is not only a farce, but also a dangerous precedent vis-a-vis American sovereignty.

Krstic's genocide “trial” was a farce because its outcome was never in doubt. Accused of murdering nearly 7,500 Muslims in 1995 during a campaign in Srebrenica, the general's fate was a fait accompli.

Consider the defense of this man, who the tribunal said “agreed to evil.” According to The New York Times, the defense “argued that although numerous killings occurred, it was impossible to speak of genocide, because thousands of women and children were spared and transported to safety.”

Now that's a good argument. He didn't kill 7,500 civilians — only, say, 5,000. And he let the women and kids go. What a fella!

The defense also argued that some of those found in mass graves were battle casualties. Another thin reed, most defense lawyers would argue.

Thus, Krstic was doomed and everyone knew it, including his own lawyer(s). Then again, perhaps they imagined it was an episode of “Globalist Perry Mason,” where the hero would unveil the real murderers, foiling the overzealous prosecutors at the last minute.

Anyway, one of the those prosecutors, naturally, was an American, but Uncle Sam's legal ministrations were hardly required. Regardless of U.N. meddling, as Yugoslavia was the country injured, Yugoslavians should have run the whole show, not patronizing Americans or other busybodies.

The United States should have stayed out of it, and here's why: It could well happen here, if the United States ever submits to the U.N. controls it demands for militarily weaker countries.

Consider this: Ten or 15 years from now during another round of riots in Los Angeles, the police “agree to evil” and shoot down some undocumented Mexicans. A U.N. tribunal, harangued by a Swedish prosecutor, decides the mayor, police chief and a few cops are guilty of “crimes against humanity.” And they toss in a charge of “genocide” because the rioters lived in squalor and the police couldn't palaver in Espanol.

The sauce for the globalist goose is sauce for the globalist gander. One day, the American goose is going to get cooked, for we cannot forever stand apart from the justice we demand for every other country.

That is why, by the way, the imperators of internationalist interventionism never cease pushing for, and getting, American participation in a plethora of pointless planetary adventures.

The Yugoslavians can handle their war criminals. Indeed, a native lynch mob gladly would have given Milosevic the gibbet if the U.N. hadn't “arrested” him. We should have let them do it.

But barring that, the Yugoslavians should prosecute and punish these men as they fit, sans the U.N. gavel. Yugoslavians committed crimes in Yugoslavia against other Yugoslavians. Granted, the government, such as it is, may have no court system up to the task now, but the solution for that is to create one, not surrender national sovereignty.

American participation in these affairs means we might surrender our own someday. Let's butt out before it's too late.


(For today's Politics article, click here.)

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