Ellen Sand June 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM # By the judge’s logic, Julian Assange should leave the Ecuadoran embassy and face the music in Sweden, or Jews who resisted the application of the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany should have surrendered themselves to the authorities. I don’t buy it. It would nice if we could all be Henry David Thoreaus, but one is not morally obligated to respect the rule of law, as Lincoln exhorted us to, at the expense of being a martyr, when such rule effectively functions as a means for the powerful to trample the less powerful, who the powerful deem a threat, while the powerful escape punishment for their crimes. See Glenn Greenwald’s latest book for details. If this view were universal, then necessary revolution would be made impossible. There is a blatant double-standard here, which namby-pamby pieties like the judge’s overlook, or worse, ignore.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:56:15 +0000
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