04-03-2010, 09:31 AM
Quote:It is our moral duty to ensure that there is no hiding place for those suspected of the most serious international crimes.
Britain will continue to take action to prosecute or extradite suspected war criminals – regardless of their status or power.
The theory - now the facts.
Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, was arrested as he landed at London's Heathrow airport in 1998 on a human rights warrant (torture) issued by a Spanish judge. He was held under house arrest in sumptuous accommodation on the millionaires Wentworth Estate, while his case dragged through the courts. He was released after much wrangling and gnashing of teeth by the likes of former Her Fuhrership, Margaret Thatcher, former His Fuhrerness, George (Poppy)Bush, and others in the International Arms Trade and Fuck You Party.
Pinohet was eventually released by the court (i.e., the Lords) because it was deemed that the arrest was invalid because it was for crime committed before 1988, the year when UK legislation was implemented for the UN Convention Against Torture in the Crimial Justice Act 1988.
The moral of this story is that where there is a will (and usually some cash involved), there is always wiggle room for finding the appropriate hiding place.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14