Taylor dances UN Tango

Fire of Liberty

Well it looks like the former thug/warlord/dictator(More deserving than President) of Liberia, Charles Taylor, is probably going to have a real long trial at The Hague because the UN tribunal thinks it's too dangerous to have his trial in Sierra Leone. So once again the folks of the UN are going to haul Taylor thousands of miles away to the Netherlands to have his trial thus making it difficult for the families of the hundreds of thousands he helped kill by supplying rebels in Sierra Leone with AK-47's, bullets, safe havens, money, and Lord knows what else, see here. Instead of shipping Taylor off to the nice confines of The Hague to face international justice for years upon years (Look at mockery of justice and a waste of time that Milosevic and others who appear before this court have done so far.)they should keep him in the hell-hole of a jail cell in Sierra Leone and suffer the continued jeers from the folks he killed. He should have to be tried under the laws of the country in which he committed the crime or at least in his home nation of Liberia instead of facing a world court that really has no jurisdiction over this case. Until the folks in Africa wave off the crutch of the UN and start solving their own problems on their own, which means prosecuting warlords/dictators for starving, killing and maiming their people or others through their own doing or via wars/conflicts, they'll never raise above the fray and pull themselves out of the third world.

All in all, Charles Taylor will live a pampered life in The Hague where he'll have good food, comfortable surroundings, fine clothes and have a bevy of big name layers like Ramsey Clark defending him while at the same time teaching him how to stretch out his trial into years upon years of idiotic ramblings. And folks wonder why the US has repeatedly and loudly said no to ad hoc tribunals like the International Criminal Court.