Ramsey Clark & the right to counsel

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Feb 22 08:43:07 PST 2003


Jim Farmelant wrote:
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> Arguably, Adolfo was perhaps trying to make a similar point,
> although, hardcore Stalinist that he is, he probably wouldn't appreciate
> the comparison with Trotsky.
>

For me, Trotsky's argument on this point is very nearly self-evident, and I have a hard time even understanding the grounds on which anyone would disagree with it.


>From what Iremember of Adolfo, however, it is doubtful that he was doing
anything other than making an asshole of himself. My initial reaction to him some years ago was that he was a hoax, a rather clumsy effort to parody the politics he expressed. It seemed to me that no one alive ever wrote such stuff. (I'm paraphrasing Swift's Bickerstaff.) I don't think it really helps the current discussion to pay any attention to anything Adolfo said.

But let me affirm again: the claim by England or Spain that _their_ courts were legitimate judges of Pinochet was a vicious claim, and anyone who defended Pinochet in that context was doing a great service to the anti-imperialist movement.

Carrol


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