In the latter part of last month, the newspaper MALAYA published my letter to the editor praising the Italian justice system for convicting the American spy agents for “rendition”-related crimes committed within the Italian territory during the infamous time of US Pres. G. W. Bush’s isolationist war on terror. Please read below the text of my said letter.
READERS FORUM
A tribute to Italy’s prosecutors
Italy will forever be remembered in the annals of public international law as the first and only country so far which has convicted American intelligence agents for the previously institutionalized American policy and practice of forcible abduction of profiled Islamic personalities and their subsequent violent renditions to foreign countries where American spy bases operate for purposes of applying torture-based interrogation tactics on such helpless human rights victims.
I honor Italy as a nation for such a great feat, or better yet and more particularly, I honor the nameless Italian prosecutors and the humble Italian trial judge who braved the indifference and political obstacles posed by the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the course of the trial of the aforecited criminal case. Their over-staying prime minister is better known as the billionaire American puppet in Rome whose main focus in life as an elective political leader seems to be to maintain amorous relations with very young Italian girls and not to defend the rule of law in Italy and in the whole world, for that matter, afraid that he might irritate his American masters.
Rendition was all a part of ex-US Pres. G. W. Bush’s dreaded and much-condemned 8-year war on terror, which (hopefully) his successor and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner US Pres. Barack Obama would seriously investigate and forever stop if the latter intends to sincerely live up to the spirit and substance of his latest international peace award and if the USA and the American people, the so-called global beacon and world leader of freedom and democracy, truly hope to do justice to the principles behind the blood-stained declaration of independence proclaimed by their great founding fathers more than 200 years ago.
The next Nobel Peace Prize award should go to the nameless, courageous, unassuming and hardworking Italian prosecutors and trial judge who handled the trial on the merits of the aforementioned criminal case.
– MANUEL J. LASERNA JR.
Las Pinas City
lcmlaw@gmail.com
See:
http://www.malaya.com.ph/11262009/edreader.html (November 26, 2009).
