Author: Just MeJust Me Date: Aug 7, 2008 01:27
On Aug 6, 4:41 pm, "Don Phillipson" wrote:
> "The Other" wrote in message
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> news:lytzdyme9h.fsf@circe.aeaea...
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>> Nuremberg was a classic case of victor's justice. . . .
Nothing like a good ol' pedagogical hairball like that to be brought
up again for a vote, as another of those unquestioned truisms that
come to be regarded, around academe, or in the dark, smoky haunts of
wi-fi hotspots nearby, with all the honor, authority, and pedantic
patina of a Euclidean theorem.
>> I don't know the details, but as I understand it, many of the "crimes"
>> were no such thing. There was no treaty specifying "crimes against
>> humanity," whatever that means. The principle of "nullum crimen,
>> nulla poena sine lege" was totally thrown out.
As well it should have been, for very good and just reasons which, in
view of the increasing vapidity of this thread will hardly be intuited
in a million years.
And why? Why, oh, why, but WHY should this be?
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