13 May 09 10:44, TIM RICHARDSON wrote to TOM WALKER:

 MG>> Suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk, 89, was deported to Germany by the
 MG>> U.S. immigration authorities after a legal tug of war.

 MG>> But Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker, insists he's
 MG>> innocent.

 TW>> Didn't they ALL??

 TR> There's a good chance that, in this guy's case, he may very well be
 TR> innocent.

Yeup. Previously sentenced to death in 1988 by the Isreali, later
aquitted as someone else was identified as the guilty party...

 TR> I seem to recall that this is the same guy who got arrested here many
 TR> years ago, got extradited to Israel, and put on trial for supposedly
 TR> being `Ivan The Terrible'!

1986

 TR> And was acquitted by the Israeli Supreme Court, because someone else
 TR> was identified as `Ivan The Terrible'!

1988

 TR> Now...they're dragging him out of the US and into another foreign
 TR> court, with new charges.

Trumped up, charges.

 TR> The guy is in his 90's! He can barely get around without help, who
 TR> knows how lucid his mind is anymore....

Or anyone else's who survived WW2 and still alive today.

 TR> If this were happening in the US to someone who had been in the
 TR> Weather Underground......A federal judge somewhere would find a
 TR> reason to toss it out of court!

Yeup.

 TR> A person who was an urban terrorist who aided and abetted in the
 TR> bombing of public places around thirty or so years ago, and is today
 TR> completely unrepentant, gets made a college professor!

Yeup.

 TR> A guy in his nineties who can barely walk....who has already been
 TR> dragged out of the country to a foreign nation, and put on trial for
 TR> his life once...now gets dragged out to another foreign country to go
 TR> through the same crap!

Kinda like 'double jeopardy' except the places where it supposedly
happened have changed.

 TR> And by the way........this guy is in his nineties....how good could
 TR> his mind be? Which brings up a real big question:

 TR> How good could the minds of any `eye witnesses' that will testify
 TR> against him be?

Exactly...circumstantial evidence not withstanding, who's left to believe
or disbelieve?

                R\%/itt




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