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Activist/Writer on Yugoslavia Agrees with Emperor's Clothes on Jacques Verges and Ramsey Clark

"I refuse to be tainted by association with Fascism"

Letter from Colin Meade

[Posted 28 August 2003]

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A Note from the Editor

As readers are probably aware, there is a sharp debate going on among those professing to defend President Milosevic.[1]  Colin Meade, a reader in Britain who has been active in the movement against NATO's Kosovo war and has been a leading activist in the campaign to defend President Milosevic in London, has written the following which he asked us to post so he could make his own feelings clear.

Jared Israel
Editor
Emperor's Clothes

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To: Emperors Clothes

From: Colin Meade
London, UK
E-mail: c.meade@btopenworld.com
27 August, 2003

Dear EC,

I am writing to you to express my appreciation of the immense contribution that the Emperors Clothes team has made over the years in bringing to light the truth about the destruction of the former Yugoslavia by imperialist forces in the West and their separatist protégés.

For a long time, I by and large believed the official story that Milosevic's policies were responsible for the break-up of Yugoslavia. The decisive break for me came with the Kosovo war. At the time I was working as a translator for the French Embassy here. In this capacity I translated some (public) communiqués about the Rambouillet conference. I was puzzled by what I was reading. It seemed as if the Yugoslav side was eager to reach a compromise, while the Albanian separatists were holding out - yet it was Yugoslavia that was bombed. A bit of rooting around on the Internet yielded the explanation - the real text of the Rambouillet "Agreement". [2] Well, it took me ten minutes on my own with an ordinary PC to get the real picture - but none of the mass media seemed to want to know about it at all... 

That was when the whole tissue of lies started unraveling then for me. The existence of your website helped me enormously in the transition between accepting the official line and realizing the awful truth.

Without Emperors Clothes, it would have been far harder for many of us to find our way through the "fog of lies" produced by the NATO powers to further their plans of conquest and pillage in the Balkans and beyond. Recently, the website and its editors have stood in the forefront of the campaign to defend former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from the frame-up now taking place in the Hague.

The reason I feel the need to say this publicly now is that attacks have been appearing impugning the motives of Emperors Clothes editors Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser for their involvement in the campaign to defend Slobodan Milosevic.

The reason why some people are writing this slanderous drivel is obvious. It is to divert attention from a crucial political issue raised by Jared and Nico: that of the activities of the International Action Centre's Ramsey Clark [1] and French lawyer Jacques Vergès [3] and the damage they are doing to the campaign to defend Slobodan Milosevic.

As Emperors Clothes has documented, Clark and Vergès have a track record of defending figures from the anti-semitic far right.

At the Hague, the prosecutors are trying to claim that Mr Milosevic pursued racist and fascist policies. Clearly, claims by Clark or Vergès to be leading the defence campaign can only give credence to this absurd amalgam, which they personally embody, and is thus harmful for the defence.

Supporters of Clark and Vergès argue that the campaign needs these high-profile people with access to the mass media, whatever they may have got up to in the past. In fact, however, what needs to be got into the media is the truth about the false charges against Milosevic and the substance of his self-defence, not further confusion of the essential issues.

My initial reaction on seeing the first article on Clark in Emperors Clothes was one of shock and repudiation: why was this internal issue in the campaign being raised so publicly? Milosevic's defenders are small in number, everyone must pull together, I felt. However, now that I have seriously studied the material on the website and thought about the political substance of the matter, I see why and how profoundly I was wrong. Clark and Vergès are not, in fact, pulling in the same direction as me. While I am trying to point out that Milosevic is clearly innocent of the preposterous charges brought against him in the Hague, Clark and Vergès foster the idea that every murderous villain is entitled to a defence, thus implying that Milosevic is just such a villain.

Finally, and most fundamentally, I absolutely refuse to be tainted, in the name of "anti-imperialism", with the brush of fascists and neo-fascists such as Klaus Barbie and Lyndon LaRouche, through political association with those who volunteered to defend them, Jacques Vergès and Ramsey Clark. People who think this is sectarian need to think again, and hard, about what they really mean by that and where their argument might eventually lead them.

Colin Meade
London, UK

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Footnotes and Further Reading

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[1] Our articles on Ramsey Clark, all of which were written by Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser, are:

* "Ramsey Clark Poses as Milosevic's Lawyer...
...and then smears the "client" on nationwide U.S. television!" at http://emperor.vwh.net/milo/ramsey1.htm

* "More on how Ramsey Clark Attacked Milosevic at
the National Press Club,"
http://emperor.vwh.net/milo/ramsey2.htm

* "Ramsey Clark's IAC Accuses us of Slander, but they get the facts wrong..." (discusses Clark's June 29 2001 flight to Belgrade) at http://emperor.vwh.net/ramsey/ramsey3.htm

* "How Ramsey Clark Labored to Protect Nazi Émigrés," at http://emperor.vwh.net/ramsey/ramsey4.htm

[2] Colin Meade refers to the Rambouillet "Accords." The most extreme part is probably Appendix B, which turns all of Yugoslavia into a NATO military colony, with full extraterritorial rights for NATO personnel. We've posted Appendix B at http://emperor.vwh.net/docs/appendixb.htm

Emperor's Clothes Deputy Editor Pr. Francisco Gil-White has produced an analysis of NATO's Rambouillet strategy:
http://www.tenc.net/gilwhite/oslo.htm#rambouillet 

[3] Our articles (so far) on Jacques Verges are:

* "Nazi Financier Francois Genoud Bankrolled Lawyer Jacques Verges and Muslim Terrorists: Who was Genoud?"
by Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser http://emperor.vwh.net/genoud-verges.htm

* "Jacques Verges Says he's Milosevic's Attorney: It's a Lie,"
by Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser
http://emperor.vwh.net/verges/notlawyer.htm

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