Words of Wisdom

A documentary - The Nuremberg Trials- was aired tonight on many PBS stations. (It will probably be repeated several times over the next week on PBS stations around the country)

I recommend it to everyone who is concerned with justice and world affairs.

It is most relevant to many of the same problems we are dealing with today as to how to bring terrorists to justice.

Terrorists must be brought into the same framework of jurisprudence that all civilized countries and international bodies share and support w/ respect to all other criminals. Yes, these crimes are especially heinous but the murdering of innocent people or their elimination by mass genocide - in whatever name or cause - is still murder and should be tried as such. To make terrorism a hyper or extra-special case subject to a different jurisprudence is to devalue thousands of years of moral and ethical structure that the civilized world has built.

John Lindth's father spoke out this week for the first time about his son's innocence after being caught in Afghanistan soon after we invaded the country in 2001 to go after Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

Saw woody allen's new flick last night - Match Point.
forget it......regardless of A. O. Scott's review.
A cynical, poorly edited, lousily acted black comedy w/ all of the usual woody themes - glib and yes highly literate conversation, posh surroundings, nihilism as seen thru the eyes of the upper upper class, sexual double dealings.......... w/ no redeeming values to speak of.
It can't hold a candle to any of his finest - Hannah and Her Three Sisters, Hollywood Ending, Everyone Says I Love You, Radio Days, and Annie Hall.

P. S. Woody Allen and I attended Midwood High School at the same time - Brooklyn, New York: 1949 - 1953