Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote: > > Show the guy the evidence, then > lock him up in an isolation cell, denying him all > contact with others, till the day he dies? Sounds > like a violation of human rights to me. > It�s a ...
Well, let me tell a true story. Back in 1935, Brazil was under the dictorial g*vernment of Getulio Vargas, and the communists tried to take over Brazil, by converting some people in the army. The coup d�etat would be performed at night, and the commies were assigned to kill the non-commies while they were sleeping. They failed. And there followed a sequence of arrests - with lots of "justified" violence. The Communist Leader was Luis Carlos Prestes, who had a lot of military experience. He was arrested, and placed in a very harsh prison cell, incommunicado, etc. His lawyer, Sobral Pinto, tried everything to get in contact with him, and everything was denied because it was an emergency, we were at war, etc. So, he demanded that his client had *animal* rights, and his animal rights were being violated. With this loophole, he could somehow relax Prestes�s prison. [[ this didn�t save Prestes�s wife, Olga Benario, who was a german. She was sent to Hitler, who killed her; she was also a jew, a communist, and she had some murders in her past history. However, their son was *not* killed, and lives until today ]] So: > > Show the guy the evidence, then > lock him up in an isolation cell, denying him all > contact with others, till the day he dies? Sounds > like a violation of human rights to me. > This sounds like a violation of animal rights to me... Alberto Monteiro
