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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:12 AM

    @Glenn Greenwald

    I'm a total layperson in all things pertaining to law.

    However, I think that Stanley Kramer's excellant courtroom drama, made in the early 60's, "Judgement at Nurenburg," brings into a facinating detail, how a civil society "Weimar Germany) over time perverted its own laws that were supposed to protect its citizens, and instead, over time, sacrificed their true spirit, legal intent, and essence.

    The result over time was a legal system that left the single individual, a potential pawn in the Nazi state's Frankenstein type experiment in "civilization."

    —Klytus Read Klytus's other letters

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