Tough Justice
ON BOARD S/Y BUSHIDO--Around 20 years or so ago, Udai Hussein, Saddam’s boy, had some of his heavies beat up a man who refused their master’s invitation to join his table in a Geneva nightclub. The Iraqi wanted to meet the man’s beautiful companion, hence the invite. Although arrested, Udai got away with it by claiming diplomatic immunity. The Swiss caved in, as they often do in such cases. As Plato pointed out, money talks. The only good thing anyone can say about Udai is that he died like a man, as did his brother. Last week a scumbag who goes by the name of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the Libyan head clown Muammar, was arrested by the Swiss police for beating up his servants. He spent two days in the cooler, was bailed, and then left the country. In response to his arrest, the head clown halted oil deliveries to Switzerland and barred Swiss ships from its ports by way of protest.
Libya supplies more than 50 per cent of Switzerland’s crude oil imports, so the oil freeze will definitely hurt. Yet if the Swiss cave in, all the bull**** we hear about human rights will go flying out the window. People, even servants of scum like Gaddafi, do have rights, and if those rights are trampled on and the guilty are let off because of their moolah and power, the whole Human Rights legislation becomes as big a joke as Gaddafi is as leader. Here’s what the Swiss should do immediately as well as permanently: ban all Libyans from entering the country. Expel all Libyan diplomats and Libyan passport holders. Freeze all Libyan assets until Hannibal Gaddafi gives himself up and is tried in a Swiss court of law. Demand an apology from the head clown for blackmailing the only truly democratic country in Europe. Then throw the little scumbag in jail and make him pay millions to the beaten servants. Then sit back and watch Gaddafi fold quicker than you can say accordion.
Muammar Gaddafi is a paper tiger who has been in power since September 1969, proof that Libya is a fifth-division country which would be better led by Caligula’s horse than the present joker who passes as leader. Gaddafi was s***-scared the second George W began raining bombs on Baghdad in 2003, then gave up his so-called nuclear research and shouted uncle. Yet the French President, also clownish at times, allowed the Libyan to set up a tent right in the middle of Paris when he was on a state visit to the City of Light. The Libyans are demanding an apology from the Swiss and have warned off Swiss ships from entering Libyan ports. This is the best news for Switzerland since the invention of the cuckoo clock. Screw the Libyans, and, while you’re at it, warn all the oily Arabs that their bank accounts are at risk if they continue to beat up helpless Filipino servants and other wretches trying to make a living working for such scum.
Arab diplomats have been mistreating servants since they got off their camels and started riding Cadillacs. And we in the West have turned a blind eye to such outrages because we’d sell our mothers for a quick buck, something the oily ones never deliver in the first place. The Swiss are the most guilty in this respect. They tolerate unacceptable behaviour by Saudi playboys related to the ruling house of camel drivers, so in a way the chickens have come home to roost. Stand up and be counted, all you Swiss. Call the clown’s bluff, freeze his ill-gotten moolah, and throw out every Libyan. Gaddafi pretends to be a lion, but in reality he’s a popinjay, who could die of fright at any moment. If he insists on an apology send him a box of chocolates laced with laxatives.
And lest we forget, now that Karadzic has been arrested, lest we celebrate too much, that is, our moral compass has been so deadened by propaganda and PC, we seem to ignore the killers who incinerate people from 15,000ft à la Clinton and Bush, but concentrate on killers like Karadzic who the bureaucrooks in the Hague and Brussels decided was a bad guy, whereas the Croats and Bosnian Muslims are good.
Last April a man considered a cold-blooded murderer by the Serbs and the Greeks alike, Ramush Haradinaj, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, was acquitted of charges of ethnic cleansing, including rape, murder and torture, sparking outrage in Serbia and among those who are familiar with that tortured part of Europe. The Hague war crimes court, in my not so humble opinion, is as kangaroo as it gets, and it can hold its head up high next to any kangaroo court that Africa can come up with. The kangaroo one that will try Karadzic will come up with not a single shred of evidence that he ordered the massacres of Muslims, as it didn’t in the case of Milosevic, but, if he does not die of a heart attack, he will be found guilty after closed sessions of the so-called judges. We have crybabies like one Roger Cohen beating his chest about what he and other hacks went through in Sarajevo, but the name of Celebici, where Muslims tortured and murdered Serbs, has never registered in his tiny American brain. (Cohen, a jerk of immense proportions, keeps calling for Turkey to join the EU. Then he will retire to Miami, or some place like it, and leave us with 80 million Muslims in our midst.)
In the meantime, hail, Max Mosley! Now there’s a brave man, and I for one am proposing him for Pug’s club. And boo to the Murdoch tabloids bleating about Judge Eade. I know of no spectacle more ridiculous than a tabloid editor in a fit of morality. Bravo, Max.
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Excellent article. Let’s hope the Swiss have the brains and spine to follow your advice.
A true distinction of nobility can be made in how people treat their servants. I’ve always found it the best indication of a person’s character.
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I heard in Sarajewo he was called Roger ‘the Schmock’ Cohen. Interesting guy.
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“Roger Cohen beating his chest about what he and other hacks went through in Sarajevo,
but the name of Celebici, where Muslims tortured and murdered Serbs, has never
registered in his tiny American brain...”
Roger Cohen is British. Carry on.
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You’re right. Switzerland seems to be the last european democracy, along with ireland.
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Roger Cohen dismissed Steve Ross’s lying about what he did in World War II as irrelevant. Ross, born Rechnitz, stated his bad hearing was caused by being on an American ship in the Pacific that shelled the Japanese. Ross had his great service to the country confined to cleaning ships in the Norfolk shipyards. Ross decorated his children’s rooms with Cleveland Brown’s souvenirs. The post-war Browns epitomized American masculinity with their prowess in football. Ross had claimed to be a member of that team. He never played.
Ross climbed the ladder by being chairman of Time/Warner and from that time another Jew and a Black have chaired Henry Luce’s empire. Spielberg’s Schindler’s List was dedicated to Steve Ross. Yet Mrs. Schindler denounced the entire list as phony. What list there was was kept by a man named Goldman, who applied one condition. No money, no name on the list. Mrs. Schindler was told this by Dr Schwartz.
Does anybody detect a pattern of acceptable lying by a group that shrieks discrimination when their claims to innocence are challenged?
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You are correct sir. Here’s where it’s win - win for Switzerland, both ways - in behalf
doing the right thing and thus securing as a byproduct the moral high ground; as well
as freezing assets and confiscating if necessary. The question then becomes if not - why
wouldn’t they? Is offending or not paying due ‘respect’ to oil sacrosanct? Does it then
offend all oil magnates especially our own in the u.s. if human rights etc. aren’t
offered up on the altar to the oil god? Perhaps the C.I.C. or Clown In Charge in Libya
already cleared his behavior with his U.S. masters? Are the neocons now at war with
Switzerland too? Too bad we can’t freeze and confiscate the neocons’ Verbiage?! I bet
it would remove so much hot air it would have a very salutary impact on global warming.
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Are the servants for the women still eunuchs? The camel jockeys liked to have exclusive rights to their women so any men who would be around them for any period of time, especially if they were servants, had their bollocks cut off so they couldn’t get any you know what. If sounds like the Gaddafis are still on that level of civilization.
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Bullseye on all points, Taki, as usual.
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Spot on. Little wonder that the Greeks are being drawn closer to the Russians, when the the Americans and Brits have adopted such a one eyed approach to the Balkans?
To borrow a turn of phrase, I can understand “How”, but I cannot understnd “Why?” Is ii not inimical to U.S. interests to pander to the the likes of the Kosovars and Bosniaks? What the hell is going on??
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EU,UK,US is rule by Communofascism,
Taki is last bastion of Greco Roman civilization coming to the end.
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Gaddafi has barred Swiss ships from Libyan ports? Too bad the Swiss navy has no dreadnoughts with 16” rifles to train on Tarabulus until Gaddafi decides to make nice and get straight. Too bad Switzerland probably won’t arrange to get Russian oil until Gaddafi learns better. Hey, Russia, here’s your chance!
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on board S/Y Bulshito
This, as usual, is all a bit rich from Taki. Firstly, where does he get off lamenting the lack of true democracy in Europe when he is an avowed supporter of the regimes of both Pinochet and France - both of whom took control off democratically elected governments through violent overthrow. He was moaning (quite rightly) about the double standards of western governments not recognising Hamas, when he himself supports the overthrow of democracy when it’s at odds with his political viewpoint - total hyprocrisy.
There is no chance the Swiss government will insist that its merchant banks freeze Libyan accounts. The country’s economy is largely reliant on the reputation of its private banking sector. Over the years the proceeds of Nazi war loot and billions from African despots have found their way into Swiss bank vaults - no questions asked. That’s why this tiny European country has the world’s biggest private banking sector - because it’s safe for anyone to stick their money there. It underpins the Swiss economy and enables rich folk lto enjoy lvirtual tax-free status. Switzerland is wealthy because it looks the other way - and Taki you benefit from living in Switzerland - so cut the moralizing BS.
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The “Colonel” supported and sent militias (plus ex-com. Russian mercernaries)to train the Sierra Lione anti-government forces, aka children soldiers, to wreak havoc in that country according to a priest missionary friend of mine who witnessed the massacres. He is thus worse than a clown, he is evil.
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best taki since piece on 300--mama was a spartan
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The Libyans are refusing Swiss ships, huh? I think that the Swiss, Lichtensteiners,
Andorrans, Paraguayans, Nepalese, Nebraskans, Mongolians, and Lesothans should unite
their formidable navies in a great armada and blockade Libya’s exposed southern coastline. The
winter cold will be brutal, but at least there will be plenty of firewood available if
they establish any base camps among the local kelp-farming tribes. These tribes are
about evenly split among Sikhs and Mormons, so they probably will jump at the
opportunity to throw off Gaddafi’s oppressive Taoist squirearchy. It will be fascinating
to see how Libya’s famous boomerang-wielding cataphracts hold up against the armada’s
galleys, junks, and Greek fire! Of course, if the Filipinos intervene
in order to secure their trade routes with Manitoba, all hell could break loose! But if
I pursue that line of analysis, I’ll just end up ranting about Lord Mountbatten’s
failed peace initiative, which condemned Libya and the rest of Oceania to perpetual
warfare. Where’s Gene Roddenberry when you need him? I just hope that the local wallaby,
jackalope, and coelacanth populations will not be ill-affected <sigh>.
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It’s so sad that some of takimag’s readers might be too dull to see that my last post was
ironic, or at least an attempt at irony.
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Off topic?
Taki,
Your countrywoman, Ms Huffington, is now presiding over what the Observer calls “the world’s most influential blog”. I think this just means that she’s at apprehending the truly degraded nature of the zeitgeist and applying that knowledge.
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forgot the link:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10312
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Taki, I very much agree with you, that admitting Turkey into the EU would be a mistake.
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I’m with Tobias. And I certainly hope the Libyans will find their ships refused entry to Swiss harbors.
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