A-Infos (en) The Internet Anti-Fascist: Sun, 10 May 98--2:28 (#110)

[Paul Kneisel <tallpaul@nyct.net>]

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             The Internet Anti-Fascist: Sunday, 10 May 98 
                       Vol. 2, Number 28 (#110)
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                             READER INPUT

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            [DRAFT] SAKIC -  SHOULD HE ALREADY BE IN ZAGREB
                        by Prof. Barry Lituchy

8 May 1998

In the eyes of the whole world the rash and thoughtless transfer of
World War II war criminal Dinko Sakic to Zagreb can only be seen as an
outrageous miscarriage of justice. The search for justice for some of
the worst crimes of genocide ever committed is not well served by
hastily extraditing this admitted Croatian mass murderer to a locale
where the conditions necessary for a fair trial cannot be met. Croatia
has ruled out prosecuting Sakic for the crime of genocide.   Thus,
sending Sakic to Croatia amounts to nothing less than an amnesty for
the crimes of genocide he committed at the death camp "Jasenovac" in
the Nazi state of Croatia, 1941-1945.

We hold the United States and Argentina equally guilty with Croatia for
this criminal action.  It is incumbent upon all governments to ensure
that international laws, prior claims for extradition, and requests for
extradition for crimes which supercede others in gravity are upheld so
that justice is sought to the fullest degree.  The actions of Croatia,
the United States and Argentina violate these principles on three
counts: (1)  By going to Croatia Sakic escapes prosecution for crimes
of genocide; (2)  Yugoslavia's request for extradition dates back to
1945-1946 and was illegally ignored at that time; (3) the United States
did not uphold the Moscow Declaration of 1943 to which it was a
signatory by not returning Sakic to Yugoslavia after World War II and
continues to violate that legal agreement to this day. 
                    
When one of the worst, most psychotic war criminals of all time is
allowed to escape justice, this act signals to the world that the
United States government is not acting in good faith in regard to the
prosecution of war crimes, and that Serbs, who accounted for the
largest number of Dinko Sakic's victims, can expect no justice from the
United States government or from the Hague Tribunal for War Crimes in
the former Yugoslavia in this matter.

We call upon the United States government and Croatia to hold Dinko
Sakic for extradition to another country, preferably though not
exclusively Yugoslavia or Israel, where the conditions necessary for a
fair trial that seeks prosecution for the crimes of genocide obtain. 
It is up to the United States and Croatia to prove to the people of
Yugoslavia and the victims of the Holocaust worldwide that they are
worthy of cooperation in the prosecution of war criminals.  By these
recent actions they have proven the opposite. 

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                          BAHA'I ANTI-RACISM
         by Prof. Frederick Sweet <sweetf@medicine.wustl.edu>

Dear Paul,

Are you familiar with the Baha'is whose mandate is to stamp out racism
on earth?

You can pick up some links at one of my daughters' Web sites:

http://www.dnai.com/%7Ebruno/bahai.htm

Keep up your good work.

Best wishes,

Fred Sweet


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                ON THE TERM "CONSERVATIVE-LIBERTARIAN"
                by Brad Watson <suspicious@airmail.net>

Mate,

What specifically do you mean by "conservative-libertarian" in your
opener [from The Internet Anti-Fascist: Wed, 29 April 98--2:25 (#106)]?
Libertarians and conservatives are diametrical opposites--Libertarians
(at least those that bear claim to its intended definition) are by
definition against conservatism and classical economic liberalism or
patriarchal values of  any sort. I assume that you are unaware of this,
so I must intervene (as I myself am a libertarian-communist). 

The actual Latin origin of "libertarian" means "freedom fighter" and
was meant to denote turn of the century anarchists like Errico 
Malatesta, Alexander Berkman and Anatoli Zhelezniakov. The
"Libertarian"  Party took the word from the ACLU's term "civil
libertarian," but  holding no claim whatsoever to the authenticity of
its origins.  (For the record, the ACLU was founded by communists /
unionists / anarchists  from the Wobblies like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn)

  --  Brad Watson

      "Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of 
       speech and press, I may tersely define as 'no 
       opinion a law and no opinion a crime.'" 
         --  Alexander Berkman

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                          ANSWER TO B. WATSON

B. Watson comments on an issue that generates confusion in some
political circles.

Members of New York's [Left] Libertarian Book Club have made similar
points. The LBC goes back several decades when the term "libertarian"
generally corresponded to Watson's description and before the word was
appropriated by a particular brand of non-fascist right-wing forces.

Since there are two fundamentally different groups using the term
today, I referred to the right-wing forces as "conservative-
libertarians" to distinguish them from the left-wing forces like
Watson.

A practical definition of the two groups, focused on anti-fascism is as
follows: Given a Klan march, the conservative-libertarians ask "How can
we prevent the government from violating the rights of the Klan;" left-
libertarians ask "How can we organize independently of government to
smash this fascist organizing effort."

In economic struggles, the conservative-libertarians identify with the
property owners against labor and government while the left-
libertarians identify with labor against government and owners.

Conservative-libertarians tend to oppose anti-fascist actions; left-
libertarians tend to be on the far left-wing of the anti-fascist
movement.

  --  tallpaul

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                         WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING

Paul Cherry (The [Montreal] Gazette), "Thousands march on May Day," 2
May 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story238.txt>

Anti-Fascist Action Stockholm, "Demonstrations in Sweden on May 9th,
1998," 9 May 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story239.txt>

Peter Wilmoth (The Sunday Age), "The New Reich," 10 May 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story240.txt>

Marko Vukovic, "Skinheads Attack Czech Center," 25 May 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story241.txt>

Kevin Barry (The Examiner), "Thousands march in anti-racist demo," n.d.
(rec'd 27 Apr 98) 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story242.txt>

Immigrant Solidarty (no author), "Cork - Ireland  'No Deportations - No
Racism'," 28 Apr 98 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story243.txt>

Anna Siskova (via A-INFOS), "[Slovak] Skinheads Attack Anti-Rascist
Demonstrators,"  n.d. (rec'd 28 Apr 98) 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story244.txt>

DENTRITE (press release), "Anti-Psychiatry Counter-Action," 28 Apr 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story245.txt>

Franco Barchiesi (University of the Witwatersrand), "Report From
Encounter For Humanity and Against Neo-Liberalism," n.d. (rec'd 29 Apr
98) 
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story246.txt>

Andrew Flood, "Report on Bradford MayDay '98," 5 May 98
<ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story/story247.txt>

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