Comments on: Nazi War Criminal Watching Football at Euro 2008

By: Arild

Arild — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:05:53 +0000

The country where Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre lives i.e. Israel refused a request from the Polish government in 1998 to have a guy called Salomon Morel extradited on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired on war crimes.
In July 2005 the Poles tried once more but the request was again formally refused. The response rejected the more serious charges as being false, and again rejected extradition on the grounds that the statute of limitations against Morel had run out, and that Morel was in bad health.
In response, Ewa Koj, a prosecutor with the Polish government-run Institute of National Remembrance, criticized the decision saying:

“How can a statute of limitations run out on crimes against humanity? There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli, or any other nationality”.

To the best of my knowledge, there was no response from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Efraim Zuroff regarding this matter. Hypocracy anyone?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:49:01 +0000

Ian, I can see your point as a broader general symbolic gesture to show the rest of the world.

But I was just looking more narrowly at this particular case/guy and imagining his sentencing hearing…

“You’re going to jail, you murderer.”
“What? Huh? Speak up! And where are my diapers?”

Dumb.

But yeah, back to the football…

Go Germany. Go Spain. Go Holland. And go… uhh, I don’t care about either Croatia or Turkey, actually.

By: russian exile

russian exile — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:36:55 +0000

ordeal_rules, don’t worry about it, unfortunately most sports fans are complete jackasses when it comes to reality. they live in their black & white world.

how many Iraqi’s have died because of Bush? About 1 million. What about American soldiers? About 3,000. What about lives not ended but torn apart, if not completely ruined, by the war (whether psychological problems or missing limbs, burnt bodies)… too many to count.

The Americans can end the conflict, but they don’t want to. The deaths keep the headlines busy while they steam millions of barrels of oil. You think they care about life? They don’t even care about American lives anymore, at least not when they are held responsible.. soldiers are supposed to die, remember.

Sure Bush isn’t Hitler, but simply because he isn’t driven by idealogy, he and his friends are driven by greed.

Every president has dirt on their hands, many have blood. But there are those like Chavez, there are those like Putin, and then there is George Bush who is on his own level. He has doomed not only millions of lives but America itself!

The vary basis of our democracy, the starting block, the voting ballot system, has been corrupted! Forget the problems with a representative democracy, and the electoral college, super delegates and all that wash, if the most simple essence of voting itself, is corrupted. Everything is on computers now! If you vote for an independent, it’ll probably come up as McCain. If you vote for Obama, it will probably come up at McCain. You get it? If that isn’t treason, I don’t know what is. And you people are here trying to defend Bush? Saying he’s not as bad as some Croatian police chief?! HAH. He’s made the Putin regime look like Mickey Mouse.

hang your heads in shame men

By: Ian Rose

Ian Rose — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:16:34 +0000

This is a difference of opinion, that’s all. You seem to believe that there’s a statute of limitations on war crimes, that after 50 or 60 or some number of years, you’re no longer worth catching, no matter what you did. I can respect that argument – I just strongly disagree with it. If someone knows they’re indicted for what amounts to genocide, I want them to know they can’t wait it out until a certain age and be rid of it. As for being a “different man”, I know this doesn’t make me a very good Democrat, but I really don’t care if he’s a different man. If someone killed my parents, I’d want them brought to justice even if it wasn’t until they were 102 and could barely walk. Again, it’s just different ideas of a justice system. Thanks, everyone for the discussion. I don’t know about you, but I think I’ve devoted enough time to Nazis today. To the football.

By: Paco Sanchezski

Paco Sanchezski — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:16:31 +0000

Thierry, you effin ignorant.
Even if a large segment of Polish (that’s capital P) population claim today to be anti-semite that does not explain or justify why GERMANS were killing both Polish Jews and Gentiles during WWII.
And what Poland has to do with what went on in Croatia which had a collaborationist government?
Do some research before commenting on WWII atrocities. Dumbkopf!

By: ordeal_rules

ordeal_rules — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:56:34 +0000

“The guy is approximately 200 years old. What purpose will it serve to charge and jail him at this point? Yeah, what he did was wrong, but convictions are supposed to prevent people from committing crimes again or deter others from doing the same. As far as we know, this dude isn’t exactly a threat to go on a crime rampage these days, and I’m not aware of any plans for the Germans to invade Poland either. To me, he looks like more of a threat to fall asleep and start snoring in the middle of a Matlock episode.”

bingo!

By: musab

musab — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:38:48 +0000

So how bout them Italians?

By: Tommy Wong

Tommy Wong — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:49:17 +0000

Wow this post delivers.

How about we start talking calcio?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:56:04 +0000

Ian, meet high horse soap box. High horse soap box, say hi to Ian.

The guy is approximately 200 years old. What purpose will it serve to charge and jail him at this point? Yeah, what he did was wrong, but convictions are supposed to prevent people from committing crimes again or deter others from doing the same. As far as we know, this dude isn’t exactly a threat to go on a crime rampage these days, and I’m not aware of any plans for the Germans to invade Poland either. To me, he looks like more of a threat to fall asleep and start snoring in the middle of a Matlock episode.

By: ordeal_rules (JCS)

ordeal_rules (JCS) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:32:53 +0000

elle, killing inocent people willingly is killing all the same…

fuck em both they are both mass murderers… not all of them, but their leaders sure are