Noam Chomsky on Serbian Death Camps and British Liable Laws

Professor Noam Chomsky exemplifies media manipulations with the photograph of the thin man behind the barb wire from a supposed Serbian concentration camp in Bosnia, which when it appeared in newspapers caused hammock around the world. This eventually leads him to talk about British freedom of speech and liable laws which he critisizes very strongly.

For justice sake, one should point out that Serbs did have concentration camps (or just plain old prisoner camps, which was what they in fact were, where men of weaponbearing age were kept, where attrocities did accure (compare Abu Ghraib) but a pattern of systematic killing has never been confirmed even by the ICTY). This is a fact that has to be brought up, no matter what the case was in Trnopolje.

A point which is more crucial tough, is the fact that all three sides in the war had theese so-called concentration camps.

This is an extract from an interview by Serbian journalist Danilo Mandić made in 2006 in Massachusetts, Boston. It along with much more interesting videos can be found by browsing my channel.

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[adiomanovic1]

this is sick!!! serbian propaganda. u killed those man and world knows it!

[gspaulsson]

Finally, crying about the poor newspaper being put out of business is b.s. They carry liability insurance, or they should, and all that happens is that their premium goes up. Also awards in British libel cases are usually quite modest, not like U.S. tort awards. It took the Brits 800 years to build up a sensible system of common law, and has taken the U.S. about 50 years to tear it all down. People forget how defamation was used to silence people in the McCarthy era; now things are a lot worse..

[gspaulsson]

British libel law sticks to the traditional rules: (a) the defendant has made accusations against the plaintiff, and it is up to the defendant to put up or shut up. I.e., in effect, the plaintiff is the one who faces an accusation (e.g. having ties to the mafia) and the accuser has the burden of proof. (b) a tort is a tort, not a crime. If I am hit by a truck belonging to a newspaper company, they don't get off the hook by saying the driver didn't do it on purpose. (one more post to finish)

[gspaulsson]

Chomsky is all wrong about British libel law. American libel law requires the plaintiff to prove malice, and now also the burden of proof lies on the plaintiff to prove the defendant wrong. Meaning that if a newspaper has accused you of having ties to the Mafia, in the U.S. you have to prove (a) that you don't have ties to the Mafia, and (b) that the newspaper acted maliciously. (on English libel law in the next post).

[xMaXiMuSx]

@92pogrom

lol WTF is your point you idiot??? There is a lot of starved, displaced people you idiot.. The very fact that you are alive proves this point you ignorant moron.. You just cant face the truth..

[92pogrom]

I was there you ignorant man! Should I believe your lying mouth or my bulging eyes, bleeding gums, teeth falling out, head lice eating me alive, weighing all of 105 pounds and not thinking of food only when in total fear that Serb guards will kill me. You will go to hell for defending evil. Hell! Hell! Hell!

[baconified]

"Probably misinterpreted" is definitely apologist. Knightley leaves no doubt that the piece was deliberately misleading. The reaction of the british media's dominance over a tiny newspaper reporting truthfully gives prescience to their hidden abuse of classical hegelian dialectic. Their complete lack of empathy for the people of Serbia & Britain, lying so egregiously, to the end of inflicting pain & suffering on one and brainwashing the other is laid bare. Chomsky: Good. Tarpley: Great.

[twinz10mm]

hahahahha u guys have got to be kidding me to believe this. ask the red cross workers where are their interviews that there was not any concetration camps in bosnia.. im sure they were not there to concentrate.

[Piewayman]

@feyzoh1985 Search:  "Judgement Bosnian Concentration Camps"

They were fake, and that film proves it.

[feyzoh1985]

Chomsky you are pathetic little man, I cant believe you;re siding with Serb 'holocaust' deniers.