Oh, that's not the only metaphor I'm going to mangle today, readers. First, the obvious question: who the fuck does Richard Goldstone think he is? I mean, seriously, did he forget that he hung 26 black men in apartheid South Africa? Because the families of the hanged men sure as hell didn't. Did he think that those records would be lost to the ages? People who live in ivory towers...
Did it never occur to him to recuse himself from judging in a case where one of the parties is repeatedly (if not accurately) accused of apartheid policies?
Was this an axe to grind or a bone to pick? Was this just plain old stupidity, or he just plain old?
He went against Israel. Forget selling out his own people; that's God's issue to take up with him. Goldstone went up against a nation of seven million yentas, who show an amazing aptitude of circling the wagons in the face of adversity. Oh, and this is also the country that spawned, you know, The Mossad. What chance did this information have staying a secret? About a snowball's chance...
So now news gets out Richie Goldstone is a hangin' judge. When confronted with this, his response was that "he had to respect the laws of the state." Yes, we've all heard that one before. Nuremberg, wasn't it? He vas only followink orrrders. By the way, he also sentenced black men to lashes, because he was against the death penalty. Except for those twelve times. But wait, he didn't have to be a judge, did he?
So, to sum it all up, the UN commissioner tasked with identifying Israeli war crimes and Israeli crimes against humanity was, only a short while ago, responsible for the enforcement of apartheid laws, corporal punishment and capital punishment. Not only did he fail in his task at the UN, he failed to excise the ghosts of those twelve black men who were sent to their deaths by his own apartheid-stained, blood-soaked hands.
Folks, if THAT's not a hypocrite, I'll eat my hat.
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