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To: CobaltBlue
I think the phrase you are looking for, the mot juste, is "test case," not "show trial." "Show trial" implies that nothing was at stake.

Uhh, you were the one that first used the term "show trial". And by your argument, you would blame the legislators and others for setting a murder case against Kevorkian into motion!?

37 posted on 07/06/2004 11:30:05 PM PDT by AndrewC (I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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To: AndrewC

I asked if you were arguing it was a show trial, and you said yes.

I see you are conceding that the legislature wrote the law, and Scopes broke the law, so it seems to me that logically, you have no reason to blame the trial on the ACLU, which did not write the law nor break the law nor prosecute the case. In fact, they didn't even hire Clarence Darrow, he horned in for the publicity.


38 posted on 07/06/2004 11:43:21 PM PDT by CobaltBlue
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