[Phys-L] Re: judge rejects i.d. in PA case

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

  "... but is
> fundamentally wrong ALWAYS."


As Chomsky says, and writes, there is a tension here.  e.g. Should a
Jew, when asked by a Gestapo agent if he is a Jew, not lie?

Did not those fundamentalists consider the court like a gestapo one?


bc, loath to make a moral judgment, but certainly recognizes the
illegality, and irony.


p.s. [personal example]  What's the morality of a foreign language Dean
giving my mother a, non existent job offer, letter for my father, so he
could obtain an exit visa from occupied France?


John Mallinckrodt wrote:

> Here is an editorial to momentarily warm the heart cockles of those
> of us who live in the ever-dwindling reality-based community AND who
> continue to hold that willful lying in support of a political agenda
> is not MERELY against the law when done under oath, but is
> fundamentally wrong ALWAYS.
>
> It seems to me that one of the frightening traits of religious
> fundamentalists of all stripes is an unshakeable willingness to let
> THEIR ends justify ALL means.
>
> --------
> INVESTIGATE PERJURY IN DOVER ID CASE
> <http://www.ydr.com/editorial/ci_3330100>
>
> They lied.
>
> William Buckingham and Alan Bonsell wanted to bring God into high
> school biology class, and in the process, they lied.

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