Re: Thank you very much indeed Was: Condemning Pinochet: a no

Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:51:26 -0800
National Centre for Sustainability (ncfs@islandnet.com)

Dear Mr. McLeod

Re yoru message to WSN of 20:54 13/11/98 -0500:

>Yves Bajard's query on why the US, or any country for that matter, should
>be allowed to bring Pinochet to justice, strikes me as a choice example of
>the problem with much of the contemporary left. Sure, the hands of the US
>are as and more bloody than those of any other state in the contemporary
>world. That fact, then, becomes the excuse for doing nothing with regard
>to Pinochet?

With all due respect, you read your e-mail toof ast adn bear judegemetns
which are not really based on a full interpretation of what I said.

Enough has been written on this case. I am also very much in favour of
bringing Mr. Pinochet to justice (without pre-empting on the judgement as
you seem to do), and regret the stalling of the Intrernational Court of
jsutice by your government, plus the fact that your government has much
more to answer for, in my opinion, than most ofher governmetns on Earth, at
present.

My initial point was a raction to the call that the US bring Pinochet to
justice, remeber? And I thought at the tiema nd still thinkt at I do nto
see why and ain the name fo what the Unitesd States of America should do
that and avoid being drawn besides the accused on the bench of infamy.

Apart from that, I really resent your labeling me as a sample case of
"left" opinions which are a case in point for doing nothing. Your
simplistic descripti9on of the action fo the right versus the iacntion of
the left bears further analysis,.

Thank you very much indeed.,

Yves Bajard.