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Subject: Goldstone's Past
Ezekiel    11/24/2009 8:31:38 AM
The man who now sits in Judgement of a democracy fighting an insidious terror threat, has quite the past. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134569 (IsraelNN.com) Former South African Judge Richard Goldstone, who censured Israel for alleged war crimes while fighting Hamas terrorists, once kept a 13-year-old in jail for protesting against his country’s Apartheid policy, according to investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg. Writing in the Huffington Post, Rindsberg also revealed that Judge Goldstone, as chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, under threat of being left without a budget if he did not bring an indictment, allegedly “moved to indict the only person there was evidence against, even though Goldstone admitted that the defendant ‘wasn't an inappropriate first person to indict.’” South African writer and historian R.W. Johnson wrote in an October, 2009 that the indictment "was so inappropriate that the judges in The Hague passed a motion severely censuring Goldstone,” according to Rindsberg. The journalist also revealed, “Goldstone ruled against the 1986 appeal of a 13-year-old boy who had been sentenced to jail for disrupting school as a protest against Apartheid and increasingly draconian "emergency laws" used to preserve order and squelch opposition to the government. “In a similar case that year, Judge Goldstone ruled against two appellants who had been convicted for possession of a cassette tape that had a recording of an interview” with a founding member of the African National Congress, the country’s liberation movement. Goldstone ruled against the defendant because he violated the South African “security act” by stating such “subversive” phrases as "let us change our own country into the kind of society we want it to be." “Goldstone's comment that the two young men had acted as agents of the ANC was later cited by the higher appellate court as reason to once again uphold the convictions,” Rindsberg wrote.
 
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Shirrush    T'depends...   11/25/2009 9:44:18 AM
Nu, your source is not exactly known for impartiality or moral rectitude either, is it? Arutz Sheva is not for all Jews, it is the exclusive shofar of the territorialist right-wingers only.
I understand that the Saffie community here in Israel are still in shock, and still mulling an appropriate response to Goldstone's treason. I'm in shock too, mind you: I had never met or heard of a South African Jew who was not a mensch and a straight arrow, and I've been around for a while, you know!
 
Now, I do not think that mudslinging by using the tailings from a superficial sh!t excavation into Goldstone's (YM"Sh) past is the way to address the problem. A more vigorous response would be welcome: after all, Baruch Spinoza z"l got excommunicated for much less, and all he had done had been stirring controversy and disturbing the peace of certain, unthinking faith, certainly not life-endangering treason!
 
I would then vote for excommunication, not only of Goldstone himself, but of all his offspring as well as his descendance: who wields injustice should be rewarded with the same! Gather the Sanhedrin now!
 
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Ezekiel       11/25/2009 10:48:35 AM

Nu, your source is not exactly known for impartiality or moral rectitude either, is it? Arutz Sheva is not for all Jews, it is the exclusive shofar of the territorialist right-wingers only.

I understand that the Saffie community here in Israel are still in shock, and still mulling an appropriate response to Goldstone's treason. I'm in shock too, mind you: I had never met or heard of a South African Jew who was not a mensch and a straight arrow, and I've been around for a while, you know!

 

Now, I do not think that mudslinging by using the tailings from a superficial sh!t excavation into Goldstone's (YM"Sh) past is the way to address the problem. A more vigorous response would be welcome: after all, Baruch Spinoza z"l got excommunicated for much less, and all he had done had been stirring controversy and disturbing the peace of certain, unthinking faith, certainly not life-endangering treason!


 

I would then vote for excommunication, not only of Goldstone himself, but of all his offspring as well as his descendance: who wields injustice should be rewarded with the same! Gather the Sanhedrin now!


The original story broke on the lefty huff post.
 
When one is in the profession of judging, looking at past judgments becomes crucial and necessary to observe how the person metes out justice and makes his conclusions.
 

 
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jastayme3       12/13/2009 9:55:37 PM




Nu, your source is not exactly known for impartiality or moral rectitude either, is it? Arutz Sheva is not for all Jews, it is the exclusive shofar of the territorialist right-wingers only.



I understand that the Saffie community here in Israel are still in shock, and still mulling an appropriate response to Goldstone's treason. I'm in shock too, mind you: I had never met or heard of a South African Jew who was not a mensch and a straight arrow, and I've been around for a while, you know!



 



Now, I do not think that mudslinging by using the tailings from a superficial sh!t excavation into Goldstone's (YM"Sh) past is the way to address the problem. A more vigorous response would be welcome: after all, Baruch Spinoza z"l got excommunicated for much less, and all he had done had been stirring controversy and disturbing the peace of certain, unthinking faith, certainly not life-endangering treason!






 



I would then vote for excommunication, not only of Goldstone himself, but of all his offspring as well as his descendance: who wields injustice should be rewarded with the same! Gather the Sanhedrin now!







The original story broke on the lefty huff post.

 

When one is in the profession of judging, looking at past judgments becomes crucial and necessary to observe how the person metes out justice and makes his conclusions.

 




That would of course disqualify King David. By necessity only one Judge is perfect and He hasn't seen fit to open session yet.
 
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