Whatever one may think of homosexuality and the activity of same-sex relationships, I hardly think the testimony of General John Shaheen is helpful. If I got caught in a raging fire I'd never think of asking the firefighter first about his or her sexual activities. "Oooh, you're gay, oh please, pass me more petrol, I've got to stoke this fire and end it all!" What a ridiculous notion.
However, General Shaheen comes before the US Senate and utters a load of rubbish that begs the question, "How did he get to be a general?". It is one thing to have a don't ask, don't tell policy. I've always thought that the best one, but not just for homosexuals. It should be for heterosexuals and any other sexual type. What business is it of anyone to nose into one's private life? Now we get all this fake openness which is just as bad as persecution. If a person is known to be homosexual basically so what. We don't need a court of inquiry to establish the facts. Not telling has been taken as "never, ever say you are", but I think a proper don't ask, don't tell policy is just a case of everyone minding their own business on this.
General Shaheen waffles on about gay soldiers and insinuates that the Dutch Army is run by a gaggle of men that prance about and cannot hurt a fly. He suggests that the massacre at Srebrenica was caused by Dutch gays just letting the Serbs let rip. Preposterous, of course.
The government keeps wasting money whilst pleading poverty
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Outside Parliament they are digging ip the road to put in an expensive new
cycle lane. They have just spent large sums on putting up ugly metal fences
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Phillip Corwin, former UN Civilian Affairs Coordinator in Bosnia during the 1990s, said: “What happened in Srebrenica was not a single large massacre of Muslims by Serbs, but rather a series of very bloody attacks and counterattacks over a three year period which reached a crescendo in July of 1995.”Internationally respected military forensic specialist Dr Zoran Stankovic, who reviewed the findings of the six experts employed by the Tribunal wrote that the effort lacked standard procedures, several of experts also lacked familiarity with wounds inflicted by military ordinance and some parts of the reports are “contrary to the generally acceptable forensic standards”. According to Dr Stankovic, many of the bodies exhumed from 17 gravesites were found in an advance state of decay “skeletonized, disarticulated and decomposed” lacking soft tissue and body parts that could help determine the cause of death. “Ascertainment of the cause of death in the cases of decomposed bodies is generally extremely difficult and in most case impossible…It is not allowed that [ICTY] experts provide their opinion in that regard and put forward the assumption having no grounds in autopsy findings.”
Between 200 and 300 blindfolds and ligatures were exhumed with bodies by the ICTY, and as Dr. Stankovic notes, these are sure signs of execution.
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