[lbo-talk] Ace nails it

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed May 27 09:42:43 PDT 2009


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

Let's leave aside for the moment how the attempted prosecution of a
> Chilean political criminal, a former head of state, under Spanish
> jurisdiction constitutes "winner's justice"--I missed that
> Spanish-Chilean war.

I meant (but forgot) to post a reply to Carrol suggesting that we consider "imperial justice" as a separate category. It would be difficult to find a better example of this than the Spanish crown's prosecution of a former Chilean head of state. The reverse is rather less likely, I think - or perhaps I should say it would be more likely to result in a retaliatory bombing campaign and/or ground invasion.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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