Subject: TORONTO SUN // Judge tosses suit by Serbs
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:22:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Boba
...."To hold otherwise would permit any citizen to in effect hijack
Canadian foreign policy...."
....and I would add : No matter how wrong and immoral it is!
According to the judge's decision Canada could bomb any country if its
policy makers decide to do so.
Let us not forget that there was no public hearing in Canada on the
"war on Yugoslavia". We just woke up one morning and Canada was at war
(bombing Serbia). On September 11, we called it terrorism!
Boba Borojevic
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THE TORONTO SUN, Friday, July 12, 2002
Judge tosses suit by Serbs
$76M airstrike claim
By PHILIP LEE-SHANOK, TORONTO SUN
A $76-million lawsuit launched by Serbian- Canadians against the
government of Canada for participating in the "illegal" 1999 NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia has been thrown out.
The suit brought by 50 Canadians of Serbian descent and seven Yugoslav
nationals claimed that Canada's participation in the NATO-led military
action contravened international law and infringed on their Canadian
Charter rights.
In a ruling released yesterday, Ontario Superior Court Judge Thomas
Heeney threw out the statement of claim, which asked for compensation
for deaths, injuries and property damage suffered by the plaintiffs
and their relatives in Serbia.
HORNETS FLEW SORTIES
He said the bombing was a state-to-state action and not directed at
any individual member of a political community in Canada.
"To hold otherwise would permit any citizen to in effect hijack
Canadian foreign policy," Heeney said, adding that citizens who
voluntarily put themselves in the target zone can't claim the
government is violating their rights to life and security.
Eighteen Canadian CF-18 Hornet jets flew about 10% of 6,700 sorties
during airstrikes to pressure then-Serbian president Slobodan
Milosevic, to end attacks on ethnic Albanians.
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Subject: heeney wrong
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:48:51 +0100
From: "canauk" <canauk@...>
To: "Toronto Sun" <editor@...>
To The Editor
The Toronto Sun
From the Director of Christians Against Nato Aggression
1 Scales Road London N17 9HB
England
Tel: 0044 208 376 1454
canauk@...
www.canauk.human-rights.org
Dear Sir,
The learned Ontario Court judge Thomas Heeney threw out a claim from
Serbian victims of theNATO aggression because "to hold otherwise would
permit any citizen in effect to hijack Canadian foreign
policy...."(Sun report 12 July 2002)
But Canadian foreign policy has already been hijacked!
The UK Government derives its authority to engage in military action
without the consent of Parliament from a curious device known as the
"royal prerogative."
I assume the same constitutional fiction applies in Canada as well.
But a UK magazine (Private Eye) reliably informed us that the Queen
didn't know that her prerogative had been invoked, until she turned on
television & found the RAF were bombing Belgrade!
So who makes foreign policy? Can NATO politicians just wake up one
morning & decide to bomb somewhere because they have an intuitive
feeling they should do this?
Aren't they accountable to anyone?
The Canadian & British Governments engaged in monstrous war crimes
during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(FRY), which is why I sought to indict Mr Lloyd Axworthy, with other
NATO leaders, @ the Highgate Magistrates Court London in May 1999 on
charges of conspiracy to murder & to cause explosions in the FRY.
The Magistrate wouldn't issue the proceedings, as he said there wasn't
enough evidence.
But the evidence now, that there was a conspiracy to subvert
international law, & that Mr Axworthy was party to it is voluminous!
Why do Canadians remain in denial?
Surely it is clear to everyone how the USA is a rogue state, a
debauched Imperial power gone berserk.
US forces have been given another year, to kill, maim, rape, mutilate
& incinerate other people, while the Canadians by contrast have to
behave!
It was not "to end attacks on ethnic Albanians" that the 1999
Yugoslav-Canadian war began.
Rather it was because Canada chose to assist the US in its global
drive for hegemony. An expression of that policy was the opening of
another US military installation, Camp Bondsteel, situated in Kosovo &
the largest US base in Europe.
It was to demonstrate the power of Yankee Imperialism that thousands
of entirely innocent people were killed & injured in Yugoslavia by
NATO bombs & missiles - Canada, as usual, acting as lackey for the US.
The cover story was "humanitarian war."
Yours sincerely
William Spring
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:22:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Boba
...."To hold otherwise would permit any citizen to in effect hijack
Canadian foreign policy...."
....and I would add : No matter how wrong and immoral it is!
According to the judge's decision Canada could bomb any country if its
policy makers decide to do so.
Let us not forget that there was no public hearing in Canada on the
"war on Yugoslavia". We just woke up one morning and Canada was at war
(bombing Serbia). On September 11, we called it terrorism!
Boba Borojevic
==========
THE TORONTO SUN, Friday, July 12, 2002
Judge tosses suit by Serbs
$76M airstrike claim
By PHILIP LEE-SHANOK, TORONTO SUN
A $76-million lawsuit launched by Serbian- Canadians against the
government of Canada for participating in the "illegal" 1999 NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia has been thrown out.
The suit brought by 50 Canadians of Serbian descent and seven Yugoslav
nationals claimed that Canada's participation in the NATO-led military
action contravened international law and infringed on their Canadian
Charter rights.
In a ruling released yesterday, Ontario Superior Court Judge Thomas
Heeney threw out the statement of claim, which asked for compensation
for deaths, injuries and property damage suffered by the plaintiffs
and their relatives in Serbia.
HORNETS FLEW SORTIES
He said the bombing was a state-to-state action and not directed at
any individual member of a political community in Canada.
"To hold otherwise would permit any citizen to in effect hijack
Canadian foreign policy," Heeney said, adding that citizens who
voluntarily put themselves in the target zone can't claim the
government is violating their rights to life and security.
Eighteen Canadian CF-18 Hornet jets flew about 10% of 6,700 sorties
during airstrikes to pressure then-Serbian president Slobodan
Milosevic, to end attacks on ethnic Albanians.
===*===
Subject: heeney wrong
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 22:48:51 +0100
From: "canauk" <canauk@...>
To: "Toronto Sun" <editor@...>
To The Editor
The Toronto Sun
From the Director of Christians Against Nato Aggression
1 Scales Road London N17 9HB
England
Tel: 0044 208 376 1454
canauk@...
www.canauk.human-rights.org
Dear Sir,
The learned Ontario Court judge Thomas Heeney threw out a claim from
Serbian victims of theNATO aggression because "to hold otherwise would
permit any citizen in effect to hijack Canadian foreign
policy...."(Sun report 12 July 2002)
But Canadian foreign policy has already been hijacked!
The UK Government derives its authority to engage in military action
without the consent of Parliament from a curious device known as the
"royal prerogative."
I assume the same constitutional fiction applies in Canada as well.
But a UK magazine (Private Eye) reliably informed us that the Queen
didn't know that her prerogative had been invoked, until she turned on
television & found the RAF were bombing Belgrade!
So who makes foreign policy? Can NATO politicians just wake up one
morning & decide to bomb somewhere because they have an intuitive
feeling they should do this?
Aren't they accountable to anyone?
The Canadian & British Governments engaged in monstrous war crimes
during the NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(FRY), which is why I sought to indict Mr Lloyd Axworthy, with other
NATO leaders, @ the Highgate Magistrates Court London in May 1999 on
charges of conspiracy to murder & to cause explosions in the FRY.
The Magistrate wouldn't issue the proceedings, as he said there wasn't
enough evidence.
But the evidence now, that there was a conspiracy to subvert
international law, & that Mr Axworthy was party to it is voluminous!
Why do Canadians remain in denial?
Surely it is clear to everyone how the USA is a rogue state, a
debauched Imperial power gone berserk.
US forces have been given another year, to kill, maim, rape, mutilate
& incinerate other people, while the Canadians by contrast have to
behave!
It was not "to end attacks on ethnic Albanians" that the 1999
Yugoslav-Canadian war began.
Rather it was because Canada chose to assist the US in its global
drive for hegemony. An expression of that policy was the opening of
another US military installation, Camp Bondsteel, situated in Kosovo &
the largest US base in Europe.
It was to demonstrate the power of Yankee Imperialism that thousands
of entirely innocent people were killed & injured in Yugoslavia by
NATO bombs & missiles - Canada, as usual, acting as lackey for the US.
The cover story was "humanitarian war."
Yours sincerely
William Spring