EU Constitution and the Hague Tribunal

Dear Senator Hayes

Thank you for your letter of 24th February 2005 in reply to my letter of 31st January 2005.

Further to my letter of 31st of January, could the letter of that date and the documents which were enclosed with that letter along with this letter and enclosures herein be lodged as a Submission to the National Forum On Europe please as per your email correspondence “Have Your Say – Call for Submissions on the EU Constitution” dated 28th February 2005.

We would maintain that Constitutionality no longer has veracity in our day.

Since our concern here is with Europe and the concept of Constitutionality we should look no further in support of our contention that unconstitutionality rather than Constitutionality prevails than the much besieged upon Balkans region.

After the 1999 illegal NATO aggression against Yugoslavia has come the completely unconstitutionally devised International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

It is our contention supported by legal authorities from across the world that the trial of President Slobodan Milosevic has been founded as means of obscuring the fact that the USA and the European Union bear primary responsibility for the destruction of Yugoslavia.

The establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague in the circumstances of the unlawful arrest and effectual kidnapping of the leader of a once sovereign State is medieval –

This is a State subjected to a merciless bombing campaign of unprecedented ferocity marking the campaign as one of the most horrendous war crimes of modern times.

To maintain, as was publicly maintained at the time and since, that the 1999 NATO onslaught on Yugoslavia had been prompted by a requirement for “humanitarian intervention” serves to mask the principle objective of this unlawful campaign which was to further the fragmentation process effected by the West in The Balkans. The idea being to create, as has been done, a series of canton like states subservient to exploitation by multi national corporate interests whose interests would be protected by the military arm of the multi nationals.

The military and industrial complex of the West has scant if any concern with humanitarianism and the usage of this word to justify the blanket bombing of a country never to have evidenced a disposition towards attacking other countries or indeed other races of people, contrary to blatant propaganda campaigns in the West, underlines the fact that in this context the words “humanitarian intervention “ should be defined as in the category of the oxymoronic.

The Hague Court is an illegal that is to say unconstitutional court variously described by lawyers of conscience as a Kangaroo Court as a Star Chamber and as a so called authority having inherently as much legitimacy as has the Court depicted in Franz Kafka’s The Trial and all the logic displayed at the Mad Hatters Tea Party in Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland.

We ask that you protest against the further persecution of Slobodan Milosevic and join with a growing number of authorities and individuals across the world currently raising challenge to this trial which is representative of nothing more nor less than a complete and shameful travesty of justice.

But then what is not in the realm of shameful travesty of justice given that a kidnapping of the elected leader of a sovereign State by armed thugs occurred unlawfully consequent to the attack on Yugoslavia which was unlawful and then following upon terrible destruction and loss of life for profits gained through a modern day rendition of piracy in the Balkans.

Next comes a further shockingly awful onslaught on Iraq. No lawful mandate as in a Resolution passed by the United Nations authorising this attack .

It is belatedly acknowledged to be fact in a largely fictional world that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq with all the weapons of mass destruction to include chemical weapons and biologically produced weapons and depleted uranium in the rapacious hands of the murderous agents of the West for usage against mainly innocent civilians.

Ireland must stand accused of participation in ongoing crimes against humanity and association with torture and acts of consummate atrocity.

The use of Shannon airport by United States military aircraft deployed in an illegal war means that Ireland can no longer profess to be in adherence to International law or more specifically to the Geneva Convention .

In an elucidation of this very point we refer to comment in a report on the public meeting in Carlow which was the inaugural meeting held by the National Forum on Europe in the Seven Oaks Hotel on Monday 7th March 2005. Irish Green Party Councillor Deidre de Burca expressed concerns that ratification of the Constitution would lead to the increased militarisation of the EU.

Senator Dardis in reply pointed to the Seville Declaration in the Constitution which guarantees Ireland’s military neutrality.

Nothing guarantees anything any longer in a world gone mad and subject to no constraints with Constitutional law anachronistic when a member of the George Bush inner circle of blatant war mongers can justify torture as acceptable with the Geneva Convention alluded to by this General Buck Turgidson like stalwart as “quaint” and out of date in today’s world.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs June Kelly, Co ordinator, International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (Irish Section)
Email: cdsmireland@eircom.net