Sublime

Cette prise d’armes est donc d’abord vue comme légitime du point de vue démocratique : c’est d’elle que naît la République. Mais à partir de mai, quand le régime s’est installé dans la légalité d’une assemblée élue au suffrage « universel » – amputé puisque les femmes en sont exclues –, la contestation armée est rejetée dans l’illégalité. « La cult

è fondamentale distinguere fra l’uomo e l’azione. Fare l’avvocato è proprio questo: fare tutto il possibile perché l’imputato sia processato sulla base del diritto e non delle passioni. E poi, quando tutti gli hanno voltato le spalle, essere l’ultimo a tendere ancora la mano».

È quella che viene chiamata «intercambiabilità» dei teatri, è la trasposizione geografica dell’adagio «se non sei stato tu allora è stato tuo fratello», che è la grande forza dell’associazione a delinquere con finalità di terrorismo, e nonostante tutta la stima che ho dei pubblici ministeri sono perplesso. Sono perplesso io, e sono perplessi molti

What forgiveness is intended to do here is to interrupt and redirect the normal retaliatory impulse that would otherwise add exponential strength to the original offence and push it further into its unstoppable and destructive career.

Had Albizu ordered this? Lolita Lebrón, the chief shooter, took full responsibility. Albizu declared the shooting an act of “sublime heroism” and said no more. Yet Muñoz Marín had little doubt Albizu was behind it. Though he’d previously pardoned Albizu for political reasons, he revoked the pardon and sent police once more to the Nationalist headqu

Le 29 septembre 2022, trois semaines avant le dérapage de l’affaire Lola, Raymond se lâche encore sous les applaudissements : « Quelqu’un qui tire sur des gens qui n’ont rien fait, […] moi, je le tue, le mec. Je n’en ai rien à foutre ! Ce mec-là n’a rien à faire sur terre avec moi. » Le « pas d’accord » d’un Gilles Verdez opposé à la peine de mort

Common to all these killings is that none of the police officers was convicted. The constellation of harm here is embedded in the system that condones such behavior as normative, or what is referred to as structural racism.

On February 24, 1945, Eisenhower met the press at the Hotel Scribe in Paris—his first press conference since November. More than two hundred reporters crammed into the ballroom for what visiting White House press secretary Steve Early called “the most magnificent performance of any man at a press conference that I have ever seen.”66 The Allies were