[Vision2020] One Lawyer With A Spine...

[Ralph Nielsen]

You misunderstand me. I was saying that waterboaading was called  
torture by the Inquisition, so how can any decent person call it  
anything else today?

As Jane Mayer has just pointed out in her interview on Fresh Air, at  
least a third of the Gitmo prisoners are probably innocent of any  
crime at all. But if  higher powers want a confession, they will be  
given a confession. Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose.

Ralph

> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:27:10 -0700
> From: starbliss at gmail.com
> To: nielsen at uidaho.edu; ophite at gmail.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] One Lawyer With A Spine...
>
>
> Nielsen and Schou, don't you have a common foe upon which to focus  
> your intellectual talents, rather than wasting energy over minutiae?
>
> Christianity has its share of blood on its hands, along with  
> numerous Utopian ideologies (read John Grey's "Apocalyptic Religion  
> and The Death of Utopia"), from Egypt to Rome to the Incas, the  
> British Empire to Stalin's Communism, Hitler's National Socialism,  
> Mao's China, to the manifest destiny of the religion of modern  
> multinational capitalism, perhaps best expressed in the invasion of  
> Iraq by W. Bush... But the most shocking example of absolute and  
> pure evil incarnate is surely (tongue-in-cheek alert) to be found  
> in the legal profession, throughout history acting as endowed and  
> pampered sophisticated verbal and logical apologist for the most  
> heartless and horrendous crimes in history.  At least the lawyer  
> referenced below in the US has the guts to call it as it is,  
> publicly, with risk to life and livelihood, redeeming the elitist  
> conformist ersatz gold gilded self serving self righteous pomposity  
> of many in this profession (Sunil excepted, of course) :
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Prosecution-George-W-Bush-Murder/dp/159315481X
>
> The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Hardcover)
> by Vincent Bugliosi (Author)
>