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strange.....i would not have expected anyone to support the notion of a show trial. or summary execution. i guess the problem with stalin's usage of both was the fact that stalin was doing it. summary execution and/or show trials are in themselves ok, then. anyone care to explain to me how summary execution or a show trial are in fact ok? what purpose either would serve politically (not to mention legally and ethically) that anyone in their right mind would endorse?
this is the conclusion the conservative responses above would lead to: if you are going to defend either summary execution of a show trial, then defend it. don't dance about by frothing over saddam hussein--the issue is no whether you like him or not--no-one really cares about that--go ahead and defend summary execution and/or a show trial....i'd like to see it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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