Utah Philips

[pecunium]

From commodorified

... I have a good friend in the East. A good singer, and a good folksinger, a good song collector, who comes and listens to my shows and says, "You sing a lot about the past. You always sing about the past; you can't live in the past, you know." And I say to him, "I can go outside and pick up a rock that's older than the oldest song you know and bring it back here and drop it on your foot." Now, the past didn't go anywhere, did it? It's right here, right now - I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the past was trying to get me to forget something that if I remembered it would get 'em in serious trouble.

Which is why I want prosecutions.

Comments

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

"[W]e own this song together, right? We have thereby incurred certain social obligations which we will faithfully discharge, right?"

*loves*

[sethg]

I am right now holding on to two slim reeds of hope:

(1) Obama may not be highly motivated to prosecute these crooks, but he has no reason to pardon them, either (and if he did, wouldn't he have done so already?).

(2) These crimes have no statute of limitations.

Pinochet managed to avoid living out his final years in a cell, but it was a much closer call than anyone had expected, given that he rewrote his country's constitution to give him immunity from prosecution.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Have you see this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8006597.stm including "The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says the US is bound under the UN Convention against Torture to prosecute those who engage in it."

[elf]

Prosecutions would go a long way towards convincing me not to teach my kids that the US military is a corrupt and evil system that has accidentally acquired the temporary support of a few decent individuals.