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DaveS wrote:

On Oct 16, 3:34*pm, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:
Since you guys are obsessed with your own local elections, here's the
elephant:

http://tinyurl.com/4hgyuh

It's sad that no-one's talking about it.

L

Has anybody been punished for authorising or being a member of the
death squads the British used to execute Irish dissidents in Northern
Ireland? Or participants in the Israeli assassination program who hold
dual citizenship and even have book and speaking tours in the US and
Europe? Or the CIA personnel who acceded to the execution of their
fellow American citizens in Chile? Or the Dutch troops who stood aside
while the Serbs executed at least 7000 Muslims in Bosnia? Or the
European businessmen who supplied both sides in the Congo wars that
have killed something like 2 million people? Etc etc.

No. I agree with all of this. And it's a disgrace, and we should all
do what we can to change it. (Mind you, Pinochet was held for a while
in custody, which may have helped a little to encourage the others. It
is shameful that he was let go by the English, but all the same, good
for the Spaniard who indicted him).

I believe that what the US has done is wrong and the purps need to be
put on trial.

Exactly

However, the US doesn't hold a monopoly on extra
judicial proceedings

Absolutely

as some in Europe seem to believe nowadays.

I'm sure some in Europe do, but they're wrong (and probably both
ignorant and stupid as well).

(I know a lot about the death squads in Northern Ireland. I was there
at the time. It was actually Protestant Northern Irish killing Catholic
Northern Irish on the whole, but it was done with connivance of
Westminster)

Lazarus