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7.12.2009
AN AMERICAN NUREMBERG FOR AMERICA'S WAR CRIMES
In one of the last scenes of Stanley Kramer's great film Judgement at Nuremburg, a convicted German judge, Ernst Janning played by Burt Lancaster is visited by Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracey) and Janning says:
"Those
people...those millions of people...I never knew it would come to that. You
must believe it."
Haywood
replies: "Herr Janning...it came to that the first time you
sentenced a man to death...you knew to be innocent."
In his insistance on "looking forward" and not going into the sordid past of the Bush administration's record on torture, President Obama is resisting the moral cleansing this country needs. He is playing politics with justice by being concerned with not harming his relations with the CIA and the military, but doing greater harm to America by letting them know that they--and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Yoo and others--are above and beyond the law. He will not be Judge Haywood; he will be Ernst Janning.
CURRENT ISSUE
59. 5: THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA, by Simon Winchester (2008) BR 7.12.2009
59. 4: Boulevards of Broken Dreams 7.4.2009
a review of Revolutionary Road and the Cinema of Suburbia
59. 3: The Evolution of Hand to Mouse Combat 6.26.2009
59. 2: Promised Lands 6.8.2009
59. 1: "They Want Our Women!" 6.1.2009
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