[lbo-talk] Re:lynn stewart and bill clinton

[frank scott]

"The relevant point here is that the Sheik was
convicted of conspiracy to murder, commit terrorost
acts, and the like, and from a legal point of view it
makes no difference that he did not fire a gun or
press the detonator. He is legally (and if guilty, as
the jury believed, and I agree, morally) as much an
actual participant in the acts he conspired to do as
his co-conspirators.
No doubt you will dismiss this as mere bourgeois
legality."

nope...

in fact, andie, i'd love "bourgeois legality",  if it were consistent
enough to throw clinton's ass into a cell next to the sheik's,  and
every other president since the war, if the kangaroo court - nuremberg
laws were truly observed for all, and not just the losers...

didn't make that up, it's a paraphrase of chomsky,and i think he said
they should be executed, which was the penalty at kangaroo-berg... but
wouldn't it be great if everyone could jump up and down in happiness at
such observance of "bourgeois legality"?

just asking...

fs