Spanish Inquisition Update
Spanish prosecutors attempt to unstupid a judge … again. via Yahoo: Spain’s AG declines to prosecute idiot judge’s effort to haul Bush admin officials into their Euro Star Chamber on torture charges. (No cruel Spanish Inquisition jokes, please.)
This is more or less how it works in Spain, where some judges apparently (A) think the Daily Kos and like-minded sites and organizations are legitimate sources of actionable information and (B) like to proceed on the assumption a crime has occurred, outside their jurisdiction, in the absence of evidence. There are in fact grievous wrongs in the world, and difficult struggles underway to right them.
If Spain wants to be a part of that, the Spanish people may want lean on their government to help out a little more in ways that actually matter. In fact, righteous Spanish judges concerned about misdeeds outside their borders may want to consider indicting socialist PM Zapatero for cowardice for his decision to yank Spanish troops from Iraq in the wake of the 2004 al-Qaeda bombing campaign on the Madrid train system. More recently, the forces of freedom have been engaged in dire combat with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Zapatero’s grudging decision to boost Spain’s troop contingent in quiet western Afghanistan to a grand total of 1,000, while refusing the join the actual fighting in the south and east, may also be indictable as a case of gross negligence, cowardice in the face of the enemy, and a human rights violation against the people of Afghanistan and the world, that kind of thing. What’s that charge they like? “Crimes against the international community.”
It’s a matter of priorities, I guess. The Spanish judiciary’s seem to be political. The Spanish government’s, given the skittishness about actually engaging in jihad against the evil United States government in the form of its prior administration, would appear to be a combination of its demonstrated lack of will to engage in tough fights and probably not a little fear of the consequences of some idiot judge’s indignant grandstanding. Maybe also a desire to avoid embarrassing the new US admin, which despite similarly cowardly and socialistic tendencies, has had to struggle with certain realities once in office.
Previously:
Eyeballs Bush admin lawyers for war crimes charges … Gutless as usual. If I were a Spanish taxpayer, I’d be getting annoyed with the waste of my money about now, but then, if I was a Spanish voter, odds are I’d be a socialist …
By the way, Yoo, Gonzalez, I wouldn’t sweat it. Spanish judges talk a big game but tend to wienie out in the end.
A Spanish court finally exercises some. Murder charges dropped against three American soldiers in the Hotel Palestine incident.
Al-Qaeda-Cowed Nations Indicts US Soldiers
It was only a matter of time. Charges of homicide and “crimes against the international community” from a Spanish court against LTC deCamp, Maj. Philip Wolford and Sgt. Shawn Gibson in the death of Jose Cuoso in the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad, April 8, 2003.
Full disclosure: I consider the abovementioned American soldiers to be friends, was present during the incident in question, and offered to go to Spain to testify on their character and the circumstances of the April 8, 2003 Palestine Hotel incident, also on what cowards I consider the Spanish people to be, as represented by their courts and their government. Not to include my pal Barcepundit and other mortified, rigt-thinking Spaniards.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:18 pm Comments (0) on Thursday, April 16, 2009
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