1 "The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge but shall take judicial notice thereof" (article 21of the Charter of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal). Klaus Barbie and Paul Touvier were convicted for complicity in a "policy of extermination" of which not even their lawyers, Jacques Vergès and Jacques Tremolet de Villers, demanded proof. Now the lawyers of Maurice Papon are getting ready to make the same accommodation.
2
Let the reader be reminded that horned visions are extravagant
inventions like that of the horned argument: "You possess
what you have not lost; you have not lost any horns; therefore
you have horns." These visions may not be inoffensive but
indeed diabolical.
3
One might also read an anonymous English author's The Fable
of the Ducks and the Hens / A Dramatic Saga of Intrigue, Propaganda
and Subversion, Media Concept, 1996, 21 p. (P.O.B. 62, Uckfield,
East Sussex, TN22 1QL, United Kingdom; price: £5).