[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

Gar Lipow gar.lipow at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 13:41:13 PDT 2012


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> Gar: " But it is possible that the UK is operating under another principle
> of International law, that international law is for little people."
>
> Huh?
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> Carrol
>

Snark on the extent to which big powers ignore formal rules of international law that they enforce against small powers, especially small powers that are enemies or even not important servants/allies. The phrasing came from something the hotel chain owner Leona Helmsley said "Taxes are for little people".


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