Jul.11, 2010

Yesterday France 24 gave out the story of the Manuel Noriega trial in France on charges of money laundering. As I read sections of the trial of Manuel Noriega by French court, I was amazed at the way in which it was conducted. Noriega was, to all intents and purposes, being tried by a Kangaroo Court set up by the French government and not in a venue where justice reigned supreme.

Among the countries that routinely attack the justice systems of Latin America including Venezuela and Cuba is France. But France like most of the countries of the European Union tends to lean towards the US view and thus should be considered untrustworthy to say the least.

To begin with President Manuel Noriega of Panama was a victim of the United States program of EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION carried out in the sovereign state of Panama by the US invading forces ... he was then illegally put aboard a US Air Force plane and was transported to Florida and held there incognito under very strict conditions. Noriega was not allowed any visitors or even legal advisors. The US openly violated the UN Human Rights Charter by even thumbing its nose at the UN. To go even further the US denied a UN representative permission to visit Noriega, and thus showed again the usual contempt it has for the representatives of that world body.

I recently wrote to the French government on the issue of standards of justice in France that take both racial and discriminatory overtones in respect of foreign citizens. The points that I had raised with the French government was why were there double standards in trials that began with a deliberate bias towards the accused?

Of course the French government is unwilling to explain why double standards are in vogue. While trying Manuel Noriega for money laundering the French court has given him a sentence of seven years for his crime. But the French court and government did not find the terrorist actions of one of their own Presidents necessary to prosecute.

French President Francois Mitterand sent two agents of the Deuxieme Bureau to Auckland, New Zealand, with the express purpose of sinking the Greenpeace vessel "Rainbow Warrior." The two Deuxieme Bureau agents attached a Limpet Mine on to the hull of the "Rainbow Warrior" and sank it. In the process they killed a Portuguese citizen who was aboard the ship. Now, these actions taken by the French government constitute terrorism in its purest form, which therefore makes their president a terroris.

Now to continue to on to the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the two agents of France's Deuxieme Bureau were caught by the Auckland, New Zealand police and charged and sentenced. French President Mitterand asked the New Zealand government to permit the two terrorists that sank the Rainbow Warrior to serve out their sentence in France. The New Zealand government then sent the two Terrorists back to France. On arrival in France both the Deuxieme Bureau terrorist were met at Orly airport by French President Francois Mitterand, who awarded both of them medals for service to France and released them immediately.

In the above case the French president and the two agents were not only guilty of terrorism but also cold-blooded murder. Yet, the French legal system tried and found Manuel Noriega guilty of money laundering and gave him a seven year sentence, while Francois Mitterand and the two Deuxieme Bureau agents got off scot free for murder.

Such is the prejudice instituted in French law, where RACE takes precedence aver justice.

It is very noticeable that the international press go about accusing Hugo Chavez Frias of manipulating the law and suppressing Human Rights, yet never mention the same type of violations taking place within the borders of the US, EU and countries allied to the United States.