Poor Babs
Oh my. Barbra Streisand - "Like Michael Moore, but with Smaller Tits". Now I need to go get a wet paper towel to clean the Pepsi off my laptop screen that I just spewed out when I read that tag line.
And just another reason to be skeptical of the idea of international courts. How convenient: International courts develop and apply new principles of international law; and then people can be criminally punished for expressing disagreement with the courts by saying that the decision was wrong, because the underlying conduct was in fact justified. That's what European free speech law is coming to -- international institutions not only acquire new power, but also acquire immunity from criticism, enforceable by criminal punishment. I, for one, am comforted that we currently have an administration that puts little value on international courts.
And just another reason to be skeptical of the idea of international courts. How convenient: International courts develop and apply new principles of international law; and then people can be criminally punished for expressing disagreement with the courts by saying that the decision was wrong, because the underlying conduct was in fact justified. That's what European free speech law is coming to -- international institutions not only acquire new power, but also acquire immunity from criticism, enforceable by criminal punishment. I, for one, am comforted that we currently have an administration that puts little value on international courts.
# | November 11, 2002