Last night, I watched that eerie "60 Minutes" Dan Rather interview with the wife of Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, Mirjana Marcovic, where she told the world, lying or not, there is no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and Serbs are merely defending their territory.
Except for the obligatory voice-over that told us what to think - and to discard what she was saying, that she is a Marxist and a hard-core feminist - there was, as far as I could judge, no attempt on the part of "60 Minutes" to slant or streamline this interview and make it politically correct. In a hollow way, the "Hitler" angle was forced in, but it was out of place, and most viewers must have felt it to be spurious.
For a country that is in an undeclared war, this interview was extraordinary.
Meanwhile, did anybody see some media coverage of the "March on Washington '99" last Saturday, May 1, where well-known Truth in Media editor, Bob Djurdjevec, saluted the patriots gathered at the White House in protest of the war? A photo appeared in the Washington Times, but I didn't see any live coverage.
That same day, the following happened, as reported vividly by Truth in Media - just to drive home that what we are experiencing is not a video game:
BELGRADE, May 1 - A NATO missile struck a civilian bus on Saturday (May 1) on a bridge 12 miles north of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, killing several dozen people, including many children. A rescue worker on the scene, who refused to give his name, claimed he had counted 39 bodies, the Associated Press reported. TiM's other sources in Serbia said the bus had over 60 passengers on board when it was bombed.
"I was in my garden working when I heard the sound of a plane flying," Rajko Maksic, a Serb farmer, told the Associated Press. "I turned towards the sound. I saw a bus on the road and suddenly it exploded. I heard screams and I came to look."
The attack occurred in the village of Luzane at about 1 p.m. local time, cutting the vehicle in two and sending part of it plunging off the bridge, which was damaged but not destroyed. About an hour later, the bridge came under attack again. An emergency services doctor was injured, the Tanjug news wire said.
Independent journalists on the scene saw about 15 bodies trapped in the charred remnants of the part of the bus which fell off the bridge. Most have been burned beyond recognition and were horribly mangled from the blast. The portion of the bus that remained on the bridge was still burning more than an hour after the attack." <end>
Added Bob Djurdjevec: "Another mass murder of civilians; another charge for the NATO war crimes file. In this case, add PREMEDITATED to the mass murder count, considering NATO's second bombing, an hour later, while the bus was still burning on the bridge."
Next, I came across the following, also from a Truth in Media release:
3. Seventeen Congressmen Sue Clinton Over His Illegal War on Serbia
WASHINGTON, May 2 - As you saw from TiM editor's Washington speech delivered on Saturday (see S99-60, Day 39, Update 1, May. 1), a bipartisan group of 17 Members of Congress, filed a lawsuit on Friday (Apr. 30) in federal court against President Bill Clinton for violating both the US Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Resolution with regard to his illegal and undeclared war on Yugoslavia. (...)
"This president has violated the law and he must be taken to task," said Rep. Paul. "It is a shame that Congress has not done more to stop the president from this destructive course. So it is therefore incumbent upon us to resort to the courts to force Mr. Clinton to follow his Oath of Office to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States."
The lawsuit specifically states that the president violated Section 1, Article 8, Clause 11, of the U.S. Constitution by engaging in war without a declaration of war by Congress. The lawsuit also notes that the president violated the 1973 War Powers Resolution for failing to officially report to Congress about his attack on Yugoslavia within the mandated forty-eight hours.
Joining Rep. Paul in the lawsuit were Tom Campbell (R, CA), Dennis Kucinich (D, OH), Marcy Kaptur (D, OH), Roscoe Bartlett (R, MD), Bob Barr (R, GA), Dan Burton (R, IN), Philip Crane (R, IL), John Cooksey (R, LA), Walter Jones (R, NC), Donald Manzullo (R, IL), Charlie Norwood (R, GA), Thomas Petri (R, WI), Marshall Sanford (R, SC), Joe Scarborough (R, FL), Bob Schaffer (R, CO), Thomas Tancredo (R, CO).
Members of Congress have a legal standing in the lawsuit since the president's actions usurped Congress' constitutional and legal rights to declare war and provide oversight.
TiM Ed.: TiM readers wishing to call their Congress Reps and urge then to support this action of the 17 brave and honorable Congressmen, can do so via the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Or by calling their Representatives' local offices." <end>
And juxtaposed to that you have the following:
In the current (April 26, 1999) issue of Newsweek, German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder is interviewed as follows:
Question:
"Your generation grew up with two sayings: "Never again war" and "Never again Auschwitz." In Kosovo, these two sayings came into conflict."
Schroeder:
"I warn against putting the atrocities commited in Kosovo on the same level as Auschwitz because it detracts from the singularity of the Holocaust. We had to decide to lean back and watch the events unfold, and thus abide by the principle of "Never again war" - or say there is a higher principle that we have to uphold, namely to stop the killings and deportations."
Question:
"Do you and your generation have a different attitude toward the Holocaust?"
Schroeder:
"No. This event will always influence the way German politicians think and act. Even if one says there is no such thing as collective guilt, it is still our task to see that people remember what happened - because by remembering we can ensure it will not happen again." <end>
Did you see anybody genuflect?
I don't know about your noses, but mine tells me there's defeat and desperation for the New World Order in the air. There's squirreling. There's grandstanding. There's bluff and bullying. There's whistling in the dark. There's lots of beating a dead horse with their outworn, moldy "Holocaust".
Ingrid
Thought for the Day (snippet from a private correspondence between me and David Thomas, a revisionist friend):
Ingrid: "Remember that the biggest raid ever on private reading material in the history of Germany was done not in the Hitler times but in response to Zundel mailings in the 1980s?"
David: "Sorry to quibble, but the biggest raid on private reading material in the history of the world was made by the Allies, or the spiritual precursors of the current crop of free-speech tramplers, during their occupation of Germany. Over 34,000 _titles_ were banned and copies seized and burned."