Philosophy
on the label, label, label,
you subvert justice, justice, justice
under the table, table, table
Boy, I feel old. I remember the days when a member of the executive branch (anyone else remember when there was an executive branch to our government?) lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice served to undermine the entire rule of law and remove the possibility of a functioning government. I guess there's some sort of difference I don't quite get between blowing the cover of a CIA agent protecting us against nuclear proliferation and blowing the President.
And doesn't it seem like just a few years ago when the possibility of a Middle Eastern nation acquiring nuclear weapons (or were those nucular weapons?) was so incredibly dire a situation that it warranted a pre-emptive invasion. Yet now, making it easier for easier for a Middle Eastern country to get nuclear weapons is so trivial that one deserves less jail time than Paris Hilton.
For the times they are a changin'.
- Statute Of Limitations
Ought there be a statute of limitations on crimes? On the one hand, the longer one goes from the time of the crime, the more the evidence loses its strength. Over time, notoriously unreliable memories fade and become even less reliable, physical...
- Justice And Progress
Today is Freedom Day in South Africa and seems like a fine day to raise a question philosophers have been kicking around for a while. The relaunching of the country came with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings where many of those who committed...
- Plato: Book One
Is justice the will of the stronger? In my opinion, justice is absolutely the will of the stronger. If the stronger individual in an argument (stronger physically, mentally, financially etc) really wants to get his or her way then they without a doubt...
- Casual Nuclear Weapons Development
"Laid-Back in the Lab, Maybe, but They Spurred the Weapons Race" by John Markoff July 4th, 2011 The New York Times In 1952 the physicist Ernest O. Lawrence assembled a group of young scientists to design weapons that were radically different from those...
- Spies?
Pedro and Marjorie Mascheroni "Couple Accused of Passing Nuclear Arms Secrets" by William J. Broad September 17, 2010 The New York Times A physicist and his wife, who both once worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, were arrested...
Philosophy
When It Says Libby, Libby, Libby
on the label, label, label,
you subvert justice, justice, justice
under the table, table, table
Boy, I feel old. I remember the days when a member of the executive branch (anyone else remember when there was an executive branch to our government?) lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice served to undermine the entire rule of law and remove the possibility of a functioning government. I guess there's some sort of difference I don't quite get between blowing the cover of a CIA agent protecting us against nuclear proliferation and blowing the President.
And doesn't it seem like just a few years ago when the possibility of a Middle Eastern nation acquiring nuclear weapons (or were those nucular weapons?) was so incredibly dire a situation that it warranted a pre-emptive invasion. Yet now, making it easier for easier for a Middle Eastern country to get nuclear weapons is so trivial that one deserves less jail time than Paris Hilton.
For the times they are a changin'.
- Statute Of Limitations
Ought there be a statute of limitations on crimes? On the one hand, the longer one goes from the time of the crime, the more the evidence loses its strength. Over time, notoriously unreliable memories fade and become even less reliable, physical...
- Justice And Progress
Today is Freedom Day in South Africa and seems like a fine day to raise a question philosophers have been kicking around for a while. The relaunching of the country came with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings where many of those who committed...
- Plato: Book One
Is justice the will of the stronger? In my opinion, justice is absolutely the will of the stronger. If the stronger individual in an argument (stronger physically, mentally, financially etc) really wants to get his or her way then they without a doubt...
- Casual Nuclear Weapons Development
"Laid-Back in the Lab, Maybe, but They Spurred the Weapons Race" by John Markoff July 4th, 2011 The New York Times In 1952 the physicist Ernest O. Lawrence assembled a group of young scientists to design weapons that were radically different from those...
- Spies?
Pedro and Marjorie Mascheroni "Couple Accused of Passing Nuclear Arms Secrets" by William J. Broad September 17, 2010 The New York Times A physicist and his wife, who both once worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, were arrested...