The amnesty annuls the *fact* ? One hopes there is a problem in translation here, because this is, of course, absurd. One might choose to let him get away with the FACT, that he was a bloody dictator, but one can not, and should not, make this fact go away.
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> I appeal for your great sense of justice, for your latinity, for your
Oh gag, here we go with the nationalist, essentialist, chauvinist appeals to "latinity" again. Gimme a break.
> I dare to invite you help me to defend the State of the Right and not to
Oooh goody, more Religion. The State of the Right, consecrated by the omniscient. Please.
> succumb to the disgusting nowsday fashion liberalism.
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Interesting footnote: My spelling checker wanted to capitalize "latinity" -- how appropriate, religions' names are normally capitalized
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Joseph Noonan jfn1 at msc.com