Top court sends Rios Montt trial to new judge

[Catherina]

4. It's beautiful, you have your cake and eat it too

Democratic free elections work too, so long as you're free to pick candidates and issues and purchase ads and influence. And a free press can work nicely as well so long as you're free to own the presses.

So you have a proliferation of non-dictator regimes in which working people are still underpaid or starving and those on top are still meritlessly rich beyond the dreams of any type of necessity.

But since such regimes are also democratic and their press is free, they escape destabilizing quantities of condemnation for freedom-of-expression or human rights abuses.

It's beautiful, you have your cake and eat it too, you bask in enlightened acclaim but at the same time you can fly to Rio on a whim while those who work for you have kids who are hungry.

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"They killed my father..."

"They burnt our homes..."

"They raped me, one after the other...."

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http://www.allannairn.org/2013/04/a-little-too-close-to-bone.html

Lack of Respect


You walk up and shoot someone in the head. Years later the surviving daughter approaches you.

She asks you to admit what you did was wrong. You laugh at her and keep moving.

No answer, no admission.

The survivor isn't asking for much, but even that you make a point of denying her.

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Murder's a little hard to process, it's too enormous for the human soul.

But lack of respect is another matter.

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http://www.allannairn.org/2013/04/lack-of-respect.html