[lbo-talk] Re: Alex Cockburn

[Jonathan Ruby]

> And it would be nice to ask if there's a statute of limitations on 
> genocide. I'm sure there are Germans who are wondering when they don't have 
> to labor under the legacy of the Holocaust-- after all, if the mass murder 
> of the Amalekites can be forgotten or forgiven or thrown into the dustbin 
> of history, then why not they?

My dear fellow, if there were no time limit on the crime of genocide
and if its guilt was collective and eternal you would not be writing
to us; you, like everyone else, would be hanging from a gallows.