Before I bring the conclusion to the three-part Sunday Times article, I want to report some server problems - I am not sure if it happens on your end or on mine.
I have had quite a few people complain that I "kicked them off the ZGram list" even though they are financial supporters of the Zundelsite. I will briefly restate my policy and will send more detailed instructions later.
It is really quite simple:
Twice a year, in August and in February, I remind people that I need help to do my outreach work and ask them to send me whatever they can and feel my ZGrams are worth. This is called the "Sock it to 'em" Program and involves a sock on a nail where you park your spare nickels, dimes and quarters.
All contributions are entirely voluntary. Those who will not or cannot support my work can still read my archived ZGrams - but they are always posted two or three weeks late.
This does not include friends who help in other ways - or special hardship cases.
Last August, I grit my teeth and cut my list in half - and it has since grown larger than ever. So I know that what I do is valued. I will not cut anyone off until February 1 in the strapping new millennium if all of us make it that far.
I also want to say that I do much, much more than just my ZGram work to help our cause along. You have no idea how much! I cannot tell you of my other projects, other than to say that they are big - and will be far-reaching and lasting.
But more about this later. You are safe from being cut off until you receive a nudge from me in January to go and count your spare change in your sock. If you are cut off before February 1, it is not because I carry a hidden grudge against you - it is absolutely ONLY some kind of server glitch.
If you don't get my ZGrams before that cut-off date, just holler!
Now back to the last part of the Sunday Times article on the missing Kosovo "atrocities" - over which a vicious one-way war was being fought:
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Times:
The only point that has ever needed to be made over Kosovo is that Serbian forces were committing atrocities on a scale that had to be stopped militarily because Milosevic was impervious to all forms of diplomatic, economic or moral pressures since the war began early in 1998.
They rounded up and executed young and old men. They murdered children and expelled tens of thousands of people from their villages and then burnt them in a systematic ethnic-cleansing campaign which the tribunal's evidence suggests was planned in advance at a high level. In Kosovo, as in Bosnia, aid workers and journalists came across conduct reminiscent of the holocaust.
Zundelsite:
So when will the "tribunal" move against General Westmoreland and the U.S. field commanders who did the same in Vietnam? Or against the French colonial troops in Algeria? The British in Malaysia? And the Allies, especially the Soviets, in Germany?
Times:
Personal observation and the evidence of refugees was much more telling than Nato's dubious information campaign.
Zundelsite:
Ditto for the accounts of German refugees in World War II and after. "Gruesome Harvest" by Ralph Franklin Keeling. It is an appropriate atrocity primer.
Times:
A lower death toll, if indeed there is one, which has yet to be proved, does not erase the culpability of the Serbian leadership and its military forces in trying to destroy Kosovo. One western doctor I have talked to can, from her own experience, account for at least 50 deaths, mostly elderly people, women and children.
Zundelsite:
Ten million Germans died - mostly civilians or as prisoners in Allied hands in French, American and Soviet captivity ***after World War II***! Where are the post-war crimes investigations into these deliberate massacres? Many of the killers are still alive in Allied lands.
Times:
In Glina, for example, the doctor has a young patient who says 93 people were taken from a convoy. He personally was in a group of 10-15 boys and he escaped. He does not know what happened to the rest, but included in the doctor's list of patients are the female relatives who cannot find the bodies of the 93. Perhaps they are in prison in Serbia. Their relatives would be delighted if they were.
Zundelsite:
This scene was repeated a hundred thousand times against Germans in the East and West at the end of World War II. Then the murderers were Soviets or Americans. Where are their trials?
Just two days ago I had a tearful call from a high level CEO in Chicago. As a 10 year-old boy he experienced the Holocaust called Dresden. He lost his sister, his mother and his grandmother to Allied snipers, strafing civilians fleeing the fires. They died before his eyes. He does not to this day know what happened to his brother. He himself was "captured" by the Allies and sent to Siberia, where he was put to work for 6 long, starving years. Relatives brought him as a living skeleton to North America at age 16. When he tried to tell me his story, he was so choked up that he could barely speak.
Times:
In Kosovo, it was not often necessary for the Serbs to kill masses of people in large-scale massacres, because they could be driven out at speed. Small amounts of terror were horribly effective. But there was also deliberate killing, for example the rounding up of a family who had rented their house to the OSCE, which I know about personally.
Zundelsite:
By now I am belaboring the point, but again this happened all over Europe in World War II and after. Hundreds of thousands of times!
Times:
Today there is one surviving member of that family. She watched while they were gunned down, including her four children. All of them were under 14 and they clung to her body as the bullets flew. She was then put in a lorry with all the bodies. The Serbs thought she was dead as well, but she managed during the journey to throw herself off the lorry.
Zundelsite:
Ask any German refugee from East Prussia, Silesia or the Sudetenland. Again, what happened to them? One of Ernst's supporters tells this story of having had to watch his mother axe-hacked to death right on her living room couch.
Times:
So what the Kosovar revisionists may be forgetting, as they bandy about lower death-toll figures, is that the quality and nature of the Serbian attacks is more significant than the numbers of dead. How one incident like the murder of that woman's children resonates through her village.
Zundelsite:
Hanging on for dear life to justify that murderous campaign of Allied bombing terror! The Sunday Times cannot face up to its own culpability in this atrocity mongering charade! Read Bob Djurdjevic's reports to know what is still going on!
Times:
My doctor friend still has five children in hospital undergoing treatment because they managed to survive while the rest of their family was gunned down - 22 people, in all, including the eldest girl's mother, brothers and sisters. They saw it happen in their garden. The dead are buried and they wish the war crimes investigators would come and interview them. It would make some sense of the tragedy and help them come to terms with their loss.
Zundelsite:
Sounds like your typical "Holocaust" story.
Times:
The bottom line in Kosovo has to be that one murder is one murder too many. It is not the size of the figures that matters, but what was done: and that was the murder of civilians.
Zundelsite:
This is exactly the same line used by Holocaust promoters when confronted by Revisionists who have done their homework. First claim genocide and mass murder - then trot out this utterly trite line.
"One murder is one murder too many..." - this from a ferocious war machine that bombed civilian targets indiscriminately from a safe 15,000 feet distance in the sky, killing and maiming thousands!
Times:
Nato was wrong to exaggerate as it did. The final death toll will never match its hyperbole. But just because fewer Kosovar Albanians may have been murdered than was originally thought can never mean that we should not pursue the normal course of criminal justice.
Zundelsite:
Of course. Be fair and even-handed in this all-too-pat argument. Pursue Allied murderers in World War II, in Korea, in Algiers, Malaysia, in Iraq and Israel with the same passion as you are going after Milosevic - and the world might believe you and even agree with you.
Until then, just shut up!
Here is the bottom line. The Allies still have a date with a truly impartial court - not the one they so conveniently keep assembling to try their enemies but never their own thugs.
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Thought for the Day:
"Members and front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit, and degrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascist or Nazi or anti-Semitic. Constantly associate those who oppose us with those names that already have a bad smell. The association will, after enough repetition, become 'fact' in the public mind."
(-Central Committee of the Communist Party, 1943, in an instruction sent to Communists around the world.)