Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel

[loupaulsen at attbi.com]

> How would you have felt if Clark had volunteered to defend Pinochet? 
> Similar principles would be at stake - the validity of the 
> international jurisdiction, etc. Regardless, it would stink to high 
> heaven. This stinks more and higher.
> 
> Doug

Doug, RC is not a Marxist and he doesn't act as a Marxist in these matters.  
He acts like a genuine liberal who thinks everyone should have a lawyer and 
everyone's legal rights should be scrupulously respected.  I wouldn't rule out 
his defending Pinochet against being tried outside of Chile.  There have been 
left arguments made to the effect that this is a bad precedent, and the next 
thing you know they can do the same thing with Fidel or Hugo Chavez or Arafat.

In any case, how do you come to the conclusion that this one guy is WORSE THAN 
PINOCHET??

LP