[lit-ideas] Re: Saddam supporters vow revenge on US, Shi'ites

  • From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:30:55 -0400

Lawrence Helm wrote:


"Oh, it wasn't done quite right?  Try and do better next time then."

The situation is a bit more complex.  The Iraqi government is going to great
lengths to insist that the hanging was not an act of revenge, that is
extra-judicial, but the fulfillment of a judicial process.  However, from
what one sees in the video, it is hard not to think of a lynching performed
by a particular group within Iraqi society.  If the Iraqis lose confidence
in the judicial process as a relatively objective process, then there is no
'next time'.  The judicial process is only as effective as it appears to be,
and if it appears that there is no process but a rush to punish opponents,
then there is no rule of law in Iraq.

A lynching is not a judicial act that "wasn't done quite right".


Sincerely,

Phil Enns
Glen Haven, NS
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