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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Exposure To Stomach Virus
The height of subservience and submission to the Colombian press, Uribe's break even abroad!
Via twitter, journalists who follow the drug millimeter former President Uribe (even when going to the bathroom) complain that in a recent speech in Washington the aforesaid banned you ask questions, and anyway who "dare" to ask them grabbed the microphone.
The first thing to say is that the silence of the press, and all the media in general, reflects the face of such a submission and subservience to ends narco former president. Fact that in any serious country would pull together the media in a single voice of condemnation and protest. It is not hard to imagine the immediate reaction of gringos means if Obama had done the same during their speeches on his recent trip to Latin America!.
As for the journalists involved in the accident, if the obsessive monitoring they do to the narco former president is to exploit any space and opportunity to ask awkward questions you have to ask and this avoids answering within the country (false positives, disappearances, DAS pikes, etc.), then your reaction to such abuse should have been totally opposed , not only because of censorship in itself but for the bold move to take away their microphones. Instead of just complaining for trills send the abuse so they had to do is get up in protest, not turning the microphones and ask questions anyway, so the narco former president had not responded, or had done with insults is usual with him.
But if on the contrary, the continual monitoring they do to the drug which former president is just lapdogs to echo all the verbiage, lies and cynical statements which everywhere Well you have earned his master's abuse, as he did as president to the ministers in the community councils.
The other question for Colombian journalists in general is: what is newsworthy to follow every step of the drug if the former president has nothing other than to repeat and repeat his verbiage is "a man untainted" that "fought the criminals" and left the country in peace and prosperity on the three eggs its platform parapolitics "democratic security, investment trust and cohesion social ".
Why that servility and unhealthy fixation with the narco former president? there not even other living former presidents, who at least did not say such nonsense, lies and inconsistencies? If they want to be close to a former president, because more often interview Belisario Betancourt, for example. This at least share with you issues of culture, art, books. O at the same Samper, or Gaviria, who so least have a more coherent discourse on national and international problems.
This pathetic lamboneria with Uribe and bordering on servility and stupidity ends, plus it puts them in a position of complacency and complicity with his lies and corrupt and criminal actions.
That the national media treat you as the holder of news until the stupid, poorly written and incoherent trills narco former president writes well on the end line of ridiculousness!.
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not cry not because I wrap these leaves. If the song that strip, but both peat and frightening. You could shake but can not stand any song in other ears than double, dark, or yours anyway. Hidden touch it after the disaster, tenacious following the path that could or could not make their banks more than dust.
This powder that breaks in the tabs.
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'd like to touch you, But I've forgoten how.

not cry not because I wrap these leaves. If the song that strip, but both peat and frightening. You could shake but can not stand any song in other ears than double, dark, or yours anyway. Hidden touch it after the disaster, tenacious following the path that could or could not make their banks more than dust.
This powder that breaks in the tabs.
be worthy not for rain. But we need this rain? A brief break because of the drops are more subtle to be uncertain. Neither wind nor crying adverse river. The increasingly scrambled objects, and claws that would not be in the agreement.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Beer Koozie Wedding Quotes
Press Release on Possible Immunity for Uribe from Plaintiff's Lawyer
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The following is from Terry Collingsworth, the plaintiff’s lawyer in the Drummond case. Here is the original PDF. This is the only statement he will make regarding Uribe’s immunity.
Original posted at uribe-georgetown.org
The following is from Terry Collingsworth, the plaintiff’s lawyer in the Drummond case. Here is the original PDF. This is the only statement he will make regarding Uribe’s immunity.
Conrad & Scherer
Attorneys at Law
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida • Washington, DC • Quito, Ecuador
Attorneys at Law
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida • Washington, DC • Quito, Ecuador
In response to a Statement of Interest (attached) filed March 31, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Justice on the issue of the scope of immunity that should be provided to former President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, Terry Collingsworth of Conrad & Scherer, LLP, lead counsel for the Plaintiffs in the Drummond case who seek to depose Uribe, issued the following statement:
It is premature to comment extensively on the issue at this time because there has not yet been a decision by the Court. The “Statement of Interest” issued by the U.S. government is merely that, and it remains for the Court to determine the precise contours of any immunity to be extended to Uribe, and the timing and scope of any deposition to be taken of Uribe.
With that said, the Plaintiffs in the Drummond case are encouraged by the Statement of Interest for two reasons. First, the U.S. government is clear that the law does not permit blanket immunity for Uribe as a former head of state. At most Uribe may be extended immunity for any “official acts” taken as President of Colombia. The law is clear, and the U.S. government’s distinction recognizes, that to the extent that Mr. Uribe directed or encouraged or abetted violations of the law of nations, including war crimes and extrajudicial killings, these illegal acts can never be classified as “official acts. ” Since Plaintiffs’ allege that Uribe did collaborate extensively with the same AUC terrorists who executed their relatives, the details of his relationship with and assistance to the AUC is outside of any possible immunity.
Second, the U.S. government acknowledges that the Plaintiffs likely may be able to obtain some of the evidence they need from other sources in Colombia, and asks the Court to require Plaintiffs to first attempt do so before seeking the evidence from Uribe. Plaintiffs are hopeful that this means the U.S. government will use its considerable influence with the Colombian government to obtain the cooperation of Colombian officials in allowing Plaintiffs to gather that evidence in Colombia. The trial Court in the Drummond action has recently issued Letters Rogatory to the Colombian government seeking its cooperation in allowing the depositions of numerous witnesses in Colombia. Whether these depositions occur is largely within the discretion of the current Colombian government. The Drummond Plaintiffs sincerely hope that the new administration of President Santos provides the cooperation needed to get the facts in this important human rights case. Not only will this assist in getting to the truth, it will also show that Colombia has turned a major page in its bloody history and seeks to demonstrate to the world that it respects the rule of law and can be trusted to keep its international commitments to respect human rights.
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