Why are the media allowed to prejudge some court cases and not others?
The heading on the story below was "Nazi guard breaks silence", where the presumption of innocence would require the heading: "ALLEGED Nazi guard breaks silence".
The whole thing is just a political show trial in the best Stalinist tradition anyway -- as the man has already been found "not guilty" in an Israeli court -- and if you think an Israeli court would be stepping lightly or incompetent in such a case you have a lot to learn
John Demjanjuk, a 90-year-old accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews as a guard at a Nazi death camp, denied the charges today in the first statement since his trial began in November.
Mr Demjanjuk said he was "forcibly deported to Germany" where "false charges" were pressed on him, in a statement read out to a court in Munich by his lawyer, Ulrich Busch.
"I find it an unbearable injustice that Germany is trying to make me, a prisoner of war, into a war criminal with this trial," he said.
Mr Demjanjuk is standing trial on 27,900 counts of being an accessary to murder on allegations he was a guard at the Sobibor camp in occupied Poland. He denies ever being at any camp, claiming he is the victim of mistaken identity....
Since his extradition from the US last May, Mr Demjanjuk has been in a prison near Munich, again "as a German prisoner of war", he said. "I am again and again an innocent victim of the Germans," he told the court.
He was previously found guilty in Israel of being Ivan the Terrible, a particularly sadistic death camp guard at Treblinka, but released after the Israeli Supreme Court established they had the wrong man....
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The German government, being pushed by leftist jews, will convict anyone of anything, just to give the impression they truly care. This old man was "kidnapped" from the US by Isreali agents and held against his will. But after an "exhaustive" investigation, even the Isrealis found he was innocent! That should be more than enough for any country.
There are some very vicious and vindictive jews out there who crawl around the world looking for vengeance, not justice, and they'll pick on anyone who even remotely sounds German. Perhaps the rest of the world should use that same degree of zeal in finding out just who it was that stole Eurpoes great wealth after WWII, and brought most of it to America.
Just because someone is old doesn't mean he's innocent. So he wasn't Ivan the Terrible, maybe he was a guard at Sobibor, it's up the the court to determine his guilt or innocence. I'm not going to convict him but I'm not going to say that he's a sweet old man just because his attorney believes that.
So because he's old means he's guilty? So he wasn't Ivan The Terrible. In that case, lets hang him for something. Maybe he's Harold The Horrible?
DUH, the Isreali high court said he's innocent!
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