21-01-2013, 05:57 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:I don't think its a matter of what we want, its a matter of what can possibly be achieved.
In whose judgment?
What for some is viewed to be impossible is, for others, understood to be attainable.
JFK and RFK fell into the latter category.
We cannot attain justice for either if we scurry to hide in the former.
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I see things as they can be and ask why not." George Bernard Shaw, from his play Back to Methuselah. (The line is spoken by Lucifer. But that's a discussion for another campfire.
This must not be an exercise of choosing options from a menu. Rather, it must be an exercise in creating a menu that addresses our appetites.
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:The other venue is of course the legal one. That presenting of a grand jury petition could be done in more than one place.
Then what?
Charles Drago
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene