Atrios' interesting Dershowitz info on Scalia's precise fascist tint.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Dershowitz on Scalia

I've been meaning to trasncribe this bit from when I was co-hosting the Majority Report and Dershowitz was on. sez
Dersh:


He's an interesting guy. His father was a teacher at Brooklyn college when I was there. His father was a proud
member of the American-Italian fascist party. And got his doctorate at Casa Italiano at Columbia at a time when in
order to get your doctorate you had to swear an oath to Mussolini. So he comes from an interesting background
and he went to a kind of military school in New York which was a place where any children of fascists were
educated. Therefore to call him a conservative - he's never expressed any conservative priniciples - he's a statist.
He's a man who is well in the tradition of Franco and Mussolini. Not Hitler. He's not an anti-Semite - there's no
bigotry or racism in him at all. But he is somebody who has these views which would have been very comfortable
in fascist Italy or fascist Spain.


-Atrios 2:36 PM

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Eschaton

He approves of torture, if the tortured person is Arab, and a suspected terrorist.

Wow! I thought Scalia was a bit extreme for a typical neocon. Now I know why.

Dershowitz may be an ass, but he's not a lying ass. He says what he thinks.

recognized, only be under certain conditions, be regulated, require specific permission (like a "torture"warrant).

I have to think that would be a lot more honest than what's been going on at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

Torturing in secrecy corrupts everyone.

Don't flame! I'm not saying I support torture! I'm just saying that acknowledging it openly and calling it what it is, is a lot more honest.

with agenda's

the ends justify the means