| Benjamin Geer on Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:58:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Civil and human Rights (from indymedia) |
Aliette Guibert wrote: > Around 150 former Italian activists, condemned in Italy for actions linked > with the political and social upheaval of the 1970s Translation: nutters who believed that murdering politicians and random civilians would make them popular. > Since 1981, they have been legally residing there on the promise > made by the former French President Francois Mitterrand. Ahem. Fran�ois Mitterand was a model of legality? His arbitrary decision to flout the Italian judicial system should be accepted as gospel? > Cesare Battisti, the author of several detective novels Writing detective novels makes you above the law? > In Cesare's situation, the Italian governement convicted him in his absence > with only repentant's testimonies. If he didn't want to be tried in absentia, he shouldn't have fled Italy. And if he thinks his conviction was unjust, he should appeal, like anyone else. That's called justice. Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]