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.