[lbo-talk] Ace nails it

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Wed May 27 09:08:29 PDT 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:54 AM, socialismorbarbarism < socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote:


> On a second level, if Nuremberg was merely a series
> of show trials, with an understanding that its professed legal norms
> can never in fact be applied to the prosecutors' side, then no legal
> precedent has been set.

Amusingly so; since Obama's justification for the non-prosecution of torturers relies on the Nuremberg defense.



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