Bulletin 672
Subject: Anglo-Saxon Law . . .
Terrorism . . .
and
enter The Honorable SIR DANIEL BETHLEHEM KCMG QC.
9/11
2015
Grenoble, France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
The great Aristotle once wrote that the slave
mentality is innate, many people are simply born that
way. Toward the end of the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote
that Übermenschen are to men, as men are to
animals. Human nature endows the ‘superior’ man with the power to hunt, to
enslave and even to kill his inferiors.
Historically, the formation of civil law evolved in
societies to provide necessary protections against such rapport de force,
and against the ideological apostles that are produced by our civilization and
who serve to justify the use of violence in the name of realpolitik.
The legal history of the Anglo-Saxon world is of
vital interest today, given the monumental cultural regressions we are now
witnessing.
Anglo-Saxon legal tradition can be traced back to
1215, after the assassination of Thomas À-Becket (1118-1170) by the armed
guards of King Henry II, to when King John signed the Magna Carta, which guaranteed specific legal rights to all
citizens, such as the writ of Habeas Corpus –the guarantee that an
accused must be informed of what crime he/she has been charged with—and
eventually the right of every citizen to trial by a jury of his/her peers.
Before this time in England, as in the rest of medieval Europe, ecclesiastical
laws were practiced , by which, for example, an
accused –say a woman charged with practicing witchcraft— could be bound and
thrown into a river. If the current carried her safely to shore, then it was
deemed that she was innocent and God had saved her; if the poor woman drowned,
then it was a sign that she was guilty and that God had punished her.
Contending with this Christian system of injustice,
was another legal practice in medieval England before 1215. It was secular law by
royal decree. The aristocratic members of the royal court simply
served as judge, jury and executioner, enforcing the decrees of the crown.
There existed no legal appeal, no right to representation by legal counsel.
King John’s signature on the Magna Carta in June 1215, marked the
beginning of a new system of justice that has greatly influenced western
jurisprudence. Since 1215, we have experienced periods of political regression
in western systems of justice, most notably the infamous Kiel Schule, under the Nazi regime in Europe.
One of the Nazi Party’s leading lawyers, Hans
Frank (1900–1946; hanged at Nuremberg), in this sense advocated for the need to
base German society on the foundations of a legal system which suited the
purposes of charismatic leadership.40
He wished to legally legitimise the idea of a ‘strong
ruler’ who could directly appeal to the masses. The Führer should stand above the
law, because an ‘efficient’ government is more important than
constitutionalism.
Similarly, Ernst Rudolf Huber (1903–1990), who
was at that time a prominent constitutional law professor at the University of
Kiel, thought it was ‘impossible to measure the laws of the Führer
against a higher concept of law’, because ‘in the Führer the essential principles
of the Volk come into manifestation’.41
As ‘the executor of the nation’s common will’, Huber contended that the power
of the Führer
should be ‘comprehensive and total’, because such a power was a personalised political power that should remain ‘free and
independent, exclusive and unlimited’.42
--For more,
please see: The Darwinian roots of the Nazi legal system
http://creation.com/darwinian-roots-of-nazi-legal-system
by Augusto
Zimmermann
See, also: German Legal System and Laws 4th Edition
by
Nigel Foster & Satish
Sule
Below, the first item is an article by Craig
Murray which describes a more recent regression in the field of
jurisprudence, the judicial “reform” of Great Britain in 2004, permitting
legally sanctioned assassinations of British citizens (without due process of
trial and legal defense).
The other items which follow confirm the existence
of this type of extrajudicial killing that has been systematically practiced
repeatedly by state officials during times of capitalist crises.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of American
Institutions and Social Movements
http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?auteur231
a.
Exclusive: I Can Reveal
the Legal Advice on Drone Strikes,
and How the Establishment
Works
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42801.htm
by Craig Murray
Craig
Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British
Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the
University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. - https://www.craigmurray.org.uk
b.
"CitizenFour"
by Laura Poitras
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/59249463
Part I (9 mins)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/59249702
Part II (1:42 mins)
c.
Confessions d'un
tueur à gages économique (John Perkins, en français)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rIi_9a7_Vw
&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-dsiufhMu0
d.
With a Record Backing
Coups, Secret War & Genocide,
Is Kissinger an Elder
Statesman or War Criminal?
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/2/with_a_record_backing_coups_secret