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Circus Yukos

cleaves | 17.12.2004 03:04 | Social Struggles | London

The antics of opposing groups of Oil interests, played out by the performances of their respective nations, have reached new levels of absurdity. As the Russian ‘due process of law’ dismantles Yukos for take-over by one of its lackey interests, the West screams outrage and accuses Russian courts of corruption, ‘confirming’ that the Russian legal system is the “tool of a corrupt government.” Well, really! Since when has the legal system of any nation been anything other than a tool of the prevailing regime?

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Precisely...

17.12.2004 08:56

Precisely...afterall, the law lords have just ruled by an eight to one majority that the indefinite detention of foreign suspects in the UK without charge or trial in Belmarsh prison breached their human rights...er, hang on - that can't be right...

Paul Edwards


Precision

19.12.2004 14:15

Precision is a wonderful thing .. perhaps a walk down legal archive lane… or maybe a quote from a layman to State lawyers: “..strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.”

keel


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