Wednesday, October 19, 2005

BAGnewsNotes: Portrait Of Evil or Evil of Portrait (Saddam)

Interesting photo of Salvador Dali. A painting of his, of the crucifiction, hastily drawn, sick that day in NYC, hung at Riker's Island, the prison built on household solid waste in 1903, currently a motor causeway to it from Queens where before a ferry from the Bronx went to it, cases from there still heard in the Bronx, but was stolen, replaced, by the prison guards! Dali once sold hand water color "Alice in Wonderlands" in Walden Books for $800 (ca. 1972). I wonder, about the war trials at Nuremberg, which set the precedent for people who in the military, under orders, are now since that trial, supposed to refuse the order if it is against humanity and perhaps international treaty. I was told the "I was just following orders" no longer applies after the trial of the Nazis and the investigation by Airey Neave (of MI9) of the Krupp industrial conglomerate, who died from a mercury tilt car bomb leaving a garage, just prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher, who just turned 80, (granted an honorary Ph.D. at nearby Manhattanville College, how to cure college apathy they said, having her) he said to be the architect of her coming to power in Great Britain. His wife was elevated to Baroness. I read the account of the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials from the perspective of the American Junior Prosecutor, I think whose book came out about that time and I think the responsibility issue was brought up by him. I wonder if Saddam was.

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