Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Liberal Form of Justice

Adolfo Scilingo, 58, was put on trial in Spain for genocide, the first in Spain under laws allowing the prosecution of crimes committed in another country...Scilingo received 30 terms of 21 years in jail for the deaths and five years for each of the other counts. However, under Spanish law he cannot serve more than 30 years in prison...Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 9,138 years. Amnesty International said the ruling "confirms a fundamental norm of international law, that all states have universal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes against humanity."
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thanks natalie

A friend of mine went to Cuba, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. It was one with this classic Che Guevara picture...It is just that I do not understand the idolization of murderers. Every time I see a picture of Che I ask myself: how would I look in a t-shirt picturing Augusto Pinochet?
http://www.techcentralstation.com/

But the decline in the militias should not be read as an overall decline in the radical right in the US, experts are quick to add. Mr Barkun said: "It is not that the extreme right has ceased to exist or that the potential for violence has disappeared." The militias were fashionable for a brief period, and they will doubtless be replaced by something else, although it is not clear what that might be or who would be the leader.
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