XPost: aus.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:48:28 -0500, rjac wrote:   
      
   > The Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-46 — the most spectacular judicial   
   > enterprise in history — was meant to prove that the defeated German   
   > regime had been one of unique and monstrous deceit, rapaciousness and   
   > evil. But in fact the Tribunal dispensed not justice, but injustice.   
   > The four Allied powers that organized and ran it were themselves   
   > guilty of some of the very same crimes they accused the German   
   > defendants of having committed. The Tribunal operated on the basis of   
   > “ex post facto” law created after the fact expressly for the occasion,   
   > and which the Allies applied only to the defeated. The hangings of   
   > German leaders ordered by the Tribunal were little more than murders   
   > glossed over with a veneer of makeshift, hypocritical pseudo-legality.   
   >   
   > https://ihr.org/audio_file/2011-11-16   
      
      
   I think the Nuremburg trials were most illuminating: Orders, smorders.   
   If you wanna make your way burning, looting and murdering the rest of   
   us we're gonna String You Up under whatever Law it takes an' we don't   
   give a shit if yer Gawd did tell you to.   
      
   Dhu   
      
    --   
   Je suis Canadien:   
     Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,   
     C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.   
     Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!   
      
    *A mari ad mari ad mari*   
      
     Duncan Patton a Campbell   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)