As stated in previous blog posts, anyone accused of any crimes, including acts of terrorism against America, by America, ought be tried according to the same fair high minded legal United States constitutional democratic procedural standards, that every America citizen is bequeathed.

Understandably, many people disagree with me, including, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, whom I heard on FOX News this morning debate the subject whether America ought place its enemies (whether war criminals or terrorists), on military tribunals which many claim merely represent ’show trials and victors justice’, place them on an ‘international CIA hit list’ as Cheney admits to comprising during the Bush Jr. presidency, or, merely hide them away in a military prison, try them in an unconstitutional manner privately and then quickly execute them.

The latter sends a wrong sign to illiberal states such as Venezuela and Chavez we want to emulate America’s democratic governance and is reminiscent more of something Lenin or Stalin would do, than President Obama (but I may be wrong as time will tell).

Doctor Radovan Karadzic’s, current complaints his fundamental judicial rights have been continually violated from day one of his trial by the ICTY possesses merit. The criminally corrupt ICTY at the Hague (Netherlands) I have repeatedly criticized set up especially to try him in military tribunal styled justice reeks strongly of criminal court corruption and substandard legal procedure. Luckily Karadzic will neither face capital punishment, nor, secret summary court martial styled execution if found guilty. At least the European Union member states are humane enough to do away with capital punishment. America should follow suit as to avoid further embarrassment from being signature to the (OAS) Organization of American States Human Rights Instruments Congress ratified.

Are we to really believe, Doctor Radovan Karadzic’s, fundamental legal rights have been violated in his trial at the ICTY from the beginning? Or, is he merely employing tactics and legal ramblings to just delay his trial (?) His so-called ramblings are real. I believe his complaints hold legal merit and can prove this by my own eye witness testimony against the ICTY I’ve previously written about in myblog posts. However, examining briefly, former war trials throughout history, also gives Radovan Karadzic’s, present claims credence.

The following two historical axioms shed light on the question at hand:

1) Take the example of, Otto Adolf Eichmann, often referred to as “the architect of the Holocaust”, was a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer, equivalent to being a Lieutenant Colonel under HItler). Hichmann escaped international justice and trial post WWII by escaping to Argentina, temporarily. Owing to his organizational Nazi affiliations and massive war crimes committed against Jews, Roma and others during WWII, he was accused by ,Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing logistics of ethnic cleansing Jews and other minorities into ghettos, extermination camps as well as committing gross medical war crimes experiments during the war.

Post WWII, living in Argentina fraudulently by obtaining a laissez-passer, issued by the International Red Cross. He lived there under false identity working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960 when captured by Israeli Mossad operatives. Thereafter, he was wisked away to Israel, tried in an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He then quickly found guilty, convicted and hanged in 1962.

I myself agree the man was hideous and deserved to die. However, his trial was less than ‘fair’ and I believe everyone deserves a fair trial, even if their guilt is known or admitted previously.

Giving those accused, a ‘fair trial,’ is a significant lamp post signal of any country claiming to espouse genuine constitutional democracy not only in principle, but also in instituting it in daily governmental practice. This is wherefore I state that giving the 9/11 terrorists a ‘fair trial’ in NYC is so important. It also mends America’s diplomatic image abroad, bolstering our founding father’s democratic ideals we are all proud of, fight for and willing to die for in America as citizens.

Although deserving to pay the ultimate price for his war crimes, the judicial procedures surrounding, the HIchmann trial, were substandard and similar to those Karadzic complains of today.

Karadzic, similarly complains he is unable to defend himself properly owing to the ICTY not insisting all Rome Statute/ICC member states and others such as Malta and the United States turn over valuable evidence and legal discovery necessitated by him in order to in advance prepare his defense (which the ICTY upon denying his motions and appeals consistently reminds him he ought to be doing).

I in no manner am comparing Karadzic and Mladic to WWII Nazi war criminals. Instead, I am merely comparing, contrasting and complaining about the substandard legal procedure employed in his and other Bosnian Serb war trials at the ICTY.

The next example manifesting how truly little EU member states as well as America really care about ending so-called “impunity” for war crimes in our world (except when it really suits them for some diplomatic reason) is elucidated in their allowing post WWWII, former Japanese Emperor Hirohito, to live free and not be tried.

This is old knowledge and even the Freedom of Information Act in America allows regular citizens such as myself to read statements disgraceful as this:
Because of the “value of the conclusions of the hideous medical experimentation undertaken by the Nazi’s in Japan and Eastern Europe, the CIA is willing to trade justice for information many Japanese war criminals possessed post WWII.”

Perhaps if Karadzic possessed tremendous amounts of conclusions from some hideous medical experiments, then the USA, Richard Holbrook and the ICTY would allow him to walk free?

Is it so difficult now to believe what I have said, that SPAIN and other states at the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings to establish a newly emergent ICTY then were openly discussing trading justice for judicial appointments and funding insofar as the Hague’s highest courts? Not really.

I also draw your attention to whereby post WWWII during war crimes trials, as in the Karadzic trial, “the war victors” deny the accused of ‘war crimes’ much or any communication to journalists and the media as Allied censorship in Japan only forbade criticism of the U.S. then.

Furthermore, it is more than substandard to give 9/11 terrorists fair trials and not give, Jill Starr (me) justice, by allowing Harry J SHortway and Peter Van Gilst, two former West Milford NJ detectives that set me up to be killed and assist their, first Lt. Laughlin, who brutally banged my head against his cop car over 6-20 times back in 1990/91 continue to go free as well.

The United States continues to make a mockery of human rights entering the twenty-first century.