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

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Sat Aug 18 15:07:21 PDT 2012


Yes indeed, the Tweedledum/Tweedledee theory that words mean only what you want them to mean. But I don't get my philosophy from Alice In Wonderland.

Anyhow its not nearly so hard to imagine as you insist. What is meant by 'the rule of law' is that the words mean what judges interpret them to mean.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas


>Indeed. In fact it is impossible even in fantasy to imagine what "the rule
>of law" would constitute. Law equals WORDS, and it is in principle and in
>practice impossible for the same sentence to mean (exactly) the same either
>for any two persons or for the same person on two different occasions. A
>text is dumb until it is given meaning by an interpreter. It cannot speak
>for itself.
>
>Carrol
>
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