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Unforgivable Laws

Posted on February 27, 2004, 6:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Laws that give law a bad name. They do not and cannot bind the conscience. The only problem: Everyone has his/her own list of unforgivable laws.

Tags: 1935 Nuremberg Laws, A Man for All Seasons, Al Qaeda, anti-abortionist, Apartheid, Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey, Broken Laws, Confederate, conscientious objector, death penalty, draft resistance, draft resister, E.M. Forster, gay marriage, Holocaust, Japanese internment, Jim Crow, John Brown, Mahatma Gandhi, marijuana, Martin Luther King, Mohammad Atta, Nigel Hamilton, Robert Bolt, same sex marriage, secession, Senator Bob Kerrey, slavery, the Draft, Thomas More, Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, Unforgivable Laws, Vietnam War, William Roper
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Telling the Truth About Telling the Truth

Posted on January 30, 2004, 5:05 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

The constraints on truthtelling by lawyers.

Tags: de mortuis nil nisi bonum, Ecclesiastes, Fallen World, Franz Kafka, Genesis, Hieronymus Bosch, Hogarth, honesty, lawyers, Mark Twain, Superman, T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party, Thomas Hobbes, Truth, Truth Justice and the American Way, truthtelling
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