Monthly Archives: June 2004

Literature about laws

Robert Bolt:

Wife: Arrest him!
Thomas More: For what?
Wife: He’s dangerous!
Roper: For all we know he’s a spy!
Daughter: Father, that man’s bad!
More: There’s no law against that.
Roper: There is, God’s law!
More: Then let God arrest him.
Wife: While you talk he’s gone!
More: And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law.
Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down (and you’re just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!

Japan: Blogging macht berühmt

Aus dem SPIEGEL ONLINE:
Joichi Ito ist kein Unbekannter in Japan. Als Unternehmer berichteten die Medien über ihn, doch erst als "Blogger" wurde er zum Medienstar – und "süchtig" nach der neuen Form der Öffentlichkeit. Die, sagt Ito, wird die Welt der Medien, ja die Welt selbst verändern.
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Wenn sich Ito täglich auf etwa 190 Blogs umschaut, kommt er nicht umhin zuzugeben, dass Bloggen süchtig mache.

Pentagon: “Not bound by torture laws”

The BBC reports that a Pentagon report “written by military and civilian lawyers for US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld” states that national and international prohibitions against torture do not apply to the United States.

The president has the authority as commander in chief to approve almost any physical or psychological actions during interrogation, up to and including torture,” the report states.

Thanks to warblogging for the post.