Links and stuff from between May 7th and May 11th
Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…
- Stumbling and Mumbling: Expenses and rule fetishism – 'Several of you have expressed dissatisfaction with MPs’ argument that their expenses claims were “within the rules.” What’s not sufficiently appreciated is just how deeply inadequate this defence is.'
- Home Office mole 'dumped' by Tories after being sacked – If you sleep with the devil, you'll get screwed…
- In praise of benefit fraud (Dave's Part) – 'That is what makes the current DWP poster campaign – ‘Benefit cheats, we’re closing in’ – quite so stomach-turning. Now we find out that the slick Blairite politician running the show himself perpetrates behaviour absolutely analogous to benefit fraud in all respects save the provenance of the handout. Hypocrisy doesn’t even begin to describe it.'
- Daily Show presenter Jon Stewart tries to understand Jacqui Smith's logic for banning Michael Savage – 'But why Prince Harry wasn't banned for his "public inebriation" and "poor taste in costuming"? Stewart wondered.'
- G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds' – 'Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their ID cards.'
- “Go Forward Not Back…Yes, That’s You I’m Talking To, Lerner…” « Back Towards The Locus – 'It’s an absurd world where a former Secretary of State has to be protected from a fourth grader.'
- Matthew Norman: How we'll all miss Jacqui Smith – Ouch.
- MessageSpace: the unprofessional network – As long as the money keeps rolling in, they'll let their 'clients' print any kind of lies and libel about you. Don't expect a right of reply either.
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Posted on May 11th, 2009 at 6:06pm under Miscellaneous dross
Regarding your first link:
The Nuremberg Defense is a legal defense that essentially states that the defendant was “only following orders” (“Befehl ist Befehl”, literally “order is order”) and is therefore not responsible for his crimes. The defense was most famously employed during the Nuremberg Trials, after which it is named.
Comparision?
Grrr
Part II “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”