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| | TYRANNICIDE NOT TERRORISM: - Professor Wilkes - University of Georgia School of Law |
 | | Moreover, tyrannicide is intrinsically interesting, involving as it does political assassination or attempted assassination. | | | These days we have become so appalled at apparently senseless, random political killings and violence that we tend to forget that there is a difference between terrorism-the intentional killing or injury of innocent persons to achieve political ends-and tyrannicide, i.e., the killing or attempted killing of a tyrant. | | | Only last July in West Germany there were official public ceremonies honoring the memory of the brave men who died when they tried to kill Hitler--the ultimate tyrant--with a bomb on July 20, 1944. |
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http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/other_5tyrannicide.html
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| | It is because tyrannicide is closely connected with the legitimate principles of killing in self-defense, war, and revolution, that it has been the refuge of every self-seeking scoundrel in history, that it has been claimed as a defense by religious zealots, Jacobins, and fascists. | | | This extended flurry of both tyrannicides and assassinations, with the connivance of police agents, undoubtedly contributed to the chaos and moral murkiness that eventually resulted in the Bolshevik coup and their subsequent repressive dictatorship. | | | Sexby was arrested and tortured to death for publishing Killing No Murder, an argument for tyrannicide that included a specific call for the assassination of Cromwell, his former commander, who had ruthlessly suppressed the "Leveller" movement, activists for communal ownership of agricultural land. |
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| | Assassinating Saddam: The View From International Law |
| | To this point, we have been dealing with assassination as tyrannicide, with the killing of a head of state or high official by a national of the same state. | | | Although some treaties are vague enough that such assassination might be interpreted as a political offense, and therefore not subject to extradition requests, others subscribe to the attentat principle which provides a specific exception to the exception--in cases involving assassination of heads of state or their families. | | | Understood as tyrannicide (killing a tyrant) within a country, assassination has often been accepted as lawful. |
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| | BMC Graduate Symposium- Kent Webb, The Athenian Tyrannicides, Icons of a Democratic Society |
| | It did not matter that according to the historian's research Hipparchos was not actually the tyrant at the time of his murder-- it was his brother Hippias--or that after the assassination the Peisistratid regime continued to rule Athens for four more years (2). | | | However, this interpretation simply ignores Thucydides' explicit criticisms of the popular memory of the tyrannicides in book one, in favor of an allegedly implicit criticism (a questionable methodology), and it wrongly assumes that the personal insult which resulted from the love affair would denegrate the tyrannicides in the eyes of Athenians. | | | Although the historian is explicitly critical of 1) the fact that the majority of Athenians erroneously believed that Hipparchos was the tyrant when killed, and 2) that they were unaware of the exact circumstances in which his assassination took place, the rest of his account of the tyrannicide affair follows the popular tradition(10). |
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http://www.brynmawr.edu/archaeology/guesswho/webb.html
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| | Tyrannicide and Tony Blair Samizdata.net |
| | The Greeks praised tyrannicide perhaps because they didn't accept it was an entitlement of a foreign power to kill many citizens on both sides in order to remove a ruler it didn't approve of. | | | Even today, the 'Third World' is full of dodgy dictators whose death by tyrannicide would not be condemned by many, least of all their own victims. | | | However, few would actually argue that Tony Blair's conduct of government, while authoritarian in operation and intention, merits his actual death by murder. |
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| | Julius Caesar |
| | Led to the development of a political theory of tyrannicide by both Protestants and` Catholics to help solve problem of how to cope as a persecuted religious minority. | | | He seems to take the conservative view that tyrannicide disrupts the natural order and leads to murder, chaos and disorder. | | | Perhaps WS's views are best summed up by Mark Antony in his speech prophecying disorder. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarFilms/OldGuides/JuliusCaesar.html
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| | Political Justice Book 4, Chapter 4 |
| | A QUESTION connected with the mode of effecting political melioration, and which has been eagerly discussed among political reasoners, is that of tyrannicide. | | | The moralists of antiquity contended for the lawfulness of this practice; by the moderns it has been generally condemned. |
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http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/ANARCHIST_ARCHIVES/godwin/pj4/pj4_4.html
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| | VHeadline.com - CAP: any assassination attempt on Chavez Frias would be tyrannicide |
| | Dominican Republic President Hipolito Mejia says he has told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias that any supposed assassination attempt against him from the Dominican Republic is out of the question. | | | CAP: any assassination attempt on Chavez Frias would be tyrannicide | | | VHeadline.com - CAP: any assassination attempt on Chavez Frias would be tyrannicide |
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http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=9907
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| | Tyrannicide: Heroism or Terrorism. Part I: The Case of Eugen Schauman |
| | Also Kadyrov was a hated tyrant, and removing him could be seen as a heroic tyrannicide by Chechens who lived under the harsh oppression and daily terror of his regime that was considered illegitimate by the local population. | | | The assassination of Bobrikov rather belonged to another tradition of political violence, the so-called tyrannicide. | | | However consciously the Activists distinguished their righteous motivations from the "senseless and barbaric" terrorism of nihilists and anarchists, they were influenced by the latter on the tactical level. |
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| | perfect.co.uk / The tyrannicide brief: from Charles I to Saddam |
| | The tyrannicide brief: from Charles I to Saddam | | | perfect.co.uk / The tyrannicide brief: from Charles I to Saddam | | | read The tyrannicide brief: from Charles I to Saddam |
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http://www.perfect.co.uk/2005/11/the-tyrannicide-brief-from-charles-i-to-saddam
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| | Swans Commentary: Tyrannicide or Treason?, Book Excerpt by Michael Parenti - mparen02 |
| | By this view, the deed was more an act of treason than tyrannicide, one incident in a line of political murders dating back across the better part of a century, a dramatic manifestation of a long-standing struggle between opulent conservatives and popularly supported reformers. | | | This struggle and these earlier assassinations will be treated in the pages ahead. | | | In this book I present an alternative explanation: The Senate aristocrats killed Caesar because they perceived him to be a popular leader who threatened their privileged interests. |
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| | Tyrannicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In fiction, the murder of Macbeth by Macduff can be considered tyrannicide. | | | Typically, the term is taken to mean the killing or assassination of tyrants for the common good. | | | Hipparchus (527 BC-514 BC), son of Pisistratus; Hipparchus was murdered by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the original tyrannicides. |
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| | English II - Pollock - Unit 10 Vocabulary |
| | Whether tyrannicide is lawful or unlawful in the case of Saddam Hussein was a question on which different views were held by theologians. | | | Names of the fallen are engraved right through the stone, with the spaces filled by translucent acrylic; the sun's rays are reflected through the names. |
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http://www.lvusd.k12.ca.us/agourastaff/pollock/Fall10Vocabulary.html
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| | Despite his hatred of Pompey, he followed him in the Civil War of 49 BC against Caesar, but after the former’s defeat at Pharsalus he sought and was granted Caesar’s pardon. | | | He began his political career in 58 BC by accompanying Cato to Cyprus. | | | As triumvir monetalis in about 54 BC he issued coins illustrating his strong republican views with Libertas and portraits of his ancestors L. Junius Brutus (who overthrew Tarquinius Superbus, the last Etruscan king of Rome) and Servilius Ahala (the later fifth century BC tyrannicide) (Crawford 433/1 and 2, respectively). |
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http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/imp/brutus/RSC_0015.txt
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| | Wohl APA 1998 |
| | It is this same logic that attributes the mutilation of the Herms to a tyrannical conspiracy: the Herms, as Winkler argued, represented the democratic citizen in his sexual and political autarchy, and so their mutilation is an unmanning, a castration of the demos. | | | Why does he juxtapose the mutilation of the Herms and the tyrannicide? | | | The mutilation of the Herms in 415 is a critical moment in Thucydides' history of the Sicilian Expedition, with far-reaching consequences for the Athenian war effort. |
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| | Does the Church Condone Tyrannicide? |
| | Moreover, if because of the tyrant's rule, a nation cannot defend itself, is on the course of destruction, and has no lawful means to depose or to condemn the tyrant, then a citizen may commit an act of justifiable tyrannicide. | | | Technically, there are two classes of tyrants: a tyrant by usurpation (tyrannus in titulo), a ruler who has illegitimately seized power; and a tyrant by oppression (tyrannus in regimine), a ruler who wields power unjustly, oppressively, and arbitrarily. | | | Von Stauffenberg reportedly met with Cardinal Count Preysing of Berlin to discuss this matter, and his eminence honored the motives and offered no theological objection to restrain him. |
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| | Godwin, "Political Justice," Book 4, Chap. 3 |
| | The moralists of antiquity warmly contended for the lawfulness of this practice; by the moderns it has generally been condemned. | | | {226} A question, connected with the mode of effecting revolutions, and which has been eagerly discussed among political reasoners, is that of tyrannicide. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Godwin/pj43.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tyrannicide |
| | Most unfairly the Jesuit Order has been blamed for the teaching of Mariana. | | | As a matter of fact, Mariana stated that his teaching on tyrannicide was his personal opinion, and immediately on the publication of the book the Jesuit General Aquaviva ordered that it be corrected. | | | Though Catholic doctrine condemns tyrannicide as opposed to the natural law, formerly great theologians of the Church like St. |
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| | Book Talk - 24/09/2005: The Tyrannicide Brief... |
| | It is worth thinking through the passions that really established our western political values, and to consider that the men who have been whitewashed out of history by British historians, largely for political reasons
the Tories, the conservative historians always regarded the king’s trial as straightforward treason because you couldn’t put a king on trial. | | | The Tyrannicide Brief is his second historical work. | | | He was recently appointed by the United Nations as an appeal judge for its war crimes court in Sierra Leone. |
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| | Classics in Contemporary Culture: Tyranny through History |
| | Mario Turchetti points out his 2001 book Tyrannie et Tyrannicide de l'Antiquite a nos jours in a comment to this post; so as not to fall into the conspiracy of silence I'll transcribe some comments from the review in the History of Political Thought 24 (2003), pp. | | | Thus it is a history of concepts, images and theories, not of tyrannies, tyrants, or of attempts to eliminate those who have been so designated. | | | While he often discusses these issues, Turchetti never states his overall conclusions about the new light thrown on other key concepts by viewing them in relation to that of tyranny. |
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http://semperegoauditor.typepad.com/ccc/2005/04/tyranny_through.html
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| | Office of the President - Loyola University New Orleans |
| | Tyrannicide is next, the question of whether it is in certain circumstances legitimate to assassinate a tyrannical, seriously unjust ruler. | | | First, I did indeed choose the title of this presentation and the order in which the words appear, “Cicero, Ballet, Tyrannicide, Quinine, and Prayer," to pique your curiosity and because that order had a certain lilt to it. | | | One of the greatest Jesuits of the past was Matteo Ricci, linguist, mathematician, explorer, first Christian missionary ever to get to the imperial court in Beijing. |
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| | Search Results for tyrannicide - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | He was chiefly responsible for the victory over Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and during Augustus' reign he suppressed... | | | the tyrannoktonoi, or “tyrannicides,” who according to popular, but erroneous, legend freed Athens from the Peisistratid tyrants. | | | Greek sculptors known for their bronze figures of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogiton, copies of the original bronzes executed by Antenor about 510 BC, which were taken by Xerxes I to Susa... |
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| | LibertyGuide.com - The Literature of Nonviolent Resistance and Civilian-Based Defense |
| | Plato and Aristotle discussed tyranny without commenting on the permissibility of resistance to the state, but the histories of Xenophon and Herodotus openly sympathized with instances of tyrannicide. | | | This bibliographic essay outlines the contours of this tradition, beginning with its roots in the more general theory of resistance to tyranny; it then explores the theory and practice of nonviolent resistance and its implications for classical liberal social theory. | | | While Martin Luther and John Calvin denied the right of resistance in any form, their intellectual heirs -- especially Calvin's -- questioned the doctrine that all "powers that be are ordained of God" (Romans 13:1) and considered justifications for rebellion against political and religious persecution. |
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| | AN ABC - AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR |
| | Every tyrant should be threatened with outlawry and tyrannicide if he persists in his suppression of human rights. | | | Wrongful assassinations or murders must be distinguished from tyrannicide or rightful executions of major criminals. | | | Everyone with mass extermination weapons at his disposal is also to be considered and treated as a tyrant. |
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| | Tyrannicide: Heroism or Terrorism. Part II: The Case of Claus von Stauffenberg |
| | From a Finnish point of view, Stauffenberg's attempt to assassinate Hitler parallels the murder of General-Governor Nikolai Bobrikov by Eugen Schauman on June 16, 1904 [see the previous article]. | | | Both the cases belong to the category of tyrannicide rather than terrorism, although some in Finland have recently claimed that Schauman was a terrorist. | | | The same theme of tyrannicide is also studied in Part I: The Case of Eugen Schauman. |
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| | Tyrannicide |
| | Subject: Decree of Klazomenai restoring the statue of the tyrannicide Philistos after it had been damaged in an oligarchic conspiracy | | | The experimental images posted on these web pages are intended for research and educational use only. | | | Comments from users are invited and should be addressed to |
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| | Happy Tyrannicide Day (observed)!: Geekery Today 2005/03/15 :: Rad Geek People's Daily |
| | You can use the form on this web page to send a note with the URL to the full article. | | | Just a reminder: today is Tyrannicide Day, the commemorations of the nearby assassinations of Czar Alexander II on March 13th, 1881 (124 years ago... | | | I thought this article from Geekery Today might interest you: Just a reminder: today is Tyrannicide Day, the commemorations of the nearby assassinations of Czar Alexander II on March 13th, 1881 (124 years ago... |
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| | The Observer Review Observer review: The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson |
| | The legal case soon to be mounted against Saddam Hussein can be traced back, according to human-rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, to that argued against King Charles I in 1649. | | | A royal pardon may seem 'inappropriate', as Robertson grants, but one of today's radical lawyers succeeds magnificently in his mission to commemorate the 'integrity and vision' of his neglected forebear. | | | Geoffrey Robertson offers a brilliant defence of a fellow lawyer in The Tyrannicide Brief, says Anthony Holden |
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| | Whether Tyrannicide is lawful or unlawful was a question on which different views were held by theologians. | | | Before the council closed, however, the question was raised once more in connection with a book published by the Dominican, John of Falkenberg, who was a strong partisan of the Teutonic Knights in their struggle against the King of Poland, and who maintained that it was lawful to kill the King of Poland. | | | In 1610 the general, Aquaviva, forbade any of his subjects to defend the teaching on Tyrannicide it contained. |
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| | Taylor's argument for deliberate assimilation is convincing and well supported by his thirty-seven plates (of varying quality and clarity); his cautious comments on the political connotations of the pose as the century progressed are less conclusive, but are further explored in the last chapter. | | | This is an important premise for what is essentially his main thesis in the fourth chapter, that the representations of Theseus on vases between about 470 and 450 BC were deliberately composed after the pattern of Harmodios or Aristogeiton. | | | xii-xvi), which gives the historical background to the act of tyrannicide. |
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| | :: New Statesman |
| | Milton (who served Cromwell in the office of Alastair Campbell) argued that killing a ruler who turns on his own subjects is moral, as well as poetic, justice. | | | Who now criticises von Stauffenberg (other than for ineptitude) in his attempt to blow up Hitler, or castigates the Romanians who killed Ceausescu? | | | The last time that parliament formally approved tyrannicide - indeed, defined it as a duty rather than an option - was in 1649, when the rump parliament had Charles I executed as a tyrant for murdering his own people, committing war crimes and behaving like an absolute dictator. |
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| | Schulers Books (Works, V2 - 30/45) |
| | Has not the reward of tyrannicide been paid before now to him who merely expelled a tyrant? | | | I implore you, gentlemen, to review my conduct from beginning to end, and see whether there has been any such omission on my part as to make my act appear less than tyrannicide in the eye of the law. | | | The tyrant who dies in a moment, and knows not his loss, and sees not such sights as these, dies unpunished. |
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| | History 110 - Argument from Evidence |
| | For example, if you write about John of Salisbury and argue that he encourages tyrannicide, you must deal (somehow) with his objections to tyrannicide (or rethink your argument). | | | If you were writing on John of Salisbury's Policraticus, your argument might say, simply: John is ambivalent on the question of tyrannicide. | | | He discourages people from killing tyrants and encourages them to kill tyrants. |
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| | Macbeth essays - Free Macbeth Essays: Tyrannicide |
| | Macbeth seems to be one attempt at such a compromise. | | | Shakespeare manages to present tyrannicide to a divine right King because Macbeth contains a variety of political ideologies expressed through different characters or plot points. | | | This stance, which James maintained throughout the remainder of his life, is commonly known as the doctrine of divine right (McIlwain, xxxv). |
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| | Command & Conquer Files - Imperial Assault (0.80) Info |
| | #6 - hi - Posted by: Tyrannicide (Member) on 07-17-2005 at 18:54 | | | #14 - Alpha - Posted by: Tyrannicide (Member) on 07-22-2005 at 19:17 | | | #12 - NO AI - Posted by: Tyrannicide (Member) on 07-20-2005 at 17:15 |
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| | Zelaron - View Profile: Tyrannicide |
| | Tyrannicide is not a member of any public groups | | | Would it really matter if you didn't exist any more?" - Tyrannicide | | | P4 - need I say more?P2 My own room one |
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| | Zelaron - X-box hard drive. |
| | Tyrannicide, you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. | | | Posted 04-15-2004, 01:47 AM in reply to Tyrannicide's post starting "umm, did u read the whole post, i said..." | | | Posted 04-14-2004, 12:02 PM in reply to uncapped's post starting "Tyrannicide, you have no idea what the..." |
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| | Geoffrey Robertson QC : The Tyrannicide Brief |
| | At Cooke’s own Old Bailey trial in 1660, he was the first to rely on the “cab rank rule” that is now recognised as the bedrock of a barrister’s duty to accept any brief, however dangerous to his career (or in Cooke’s case, to his life). | | | Bold, moving, gripping and persuasive, The Tyrannicide Brief brings the past alive to speak to the present, and puts forward a passionate argument for the people’s right to bring tyrannical leaders to justice. | | | The Tyrannicide Brief introduces a new national hero: a man whose astonishing life has been hitherto almost entirely overlooked. |
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| | Lecky: History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (footnotes) |
| | The doctrine of tyrannicide among the Jesuits seems to have died away after Suarez: the political condition of Europe no longer made it of great service to the Church, and the controversies of Jansenism diverted the energy of the Jesuits into new channels. | | | On the inevitable tendency of the doctrine of deposition to tyrannicide, there are some good remarks in Bossuet, Defensio, lib. | | | Once, and but once -- for a moment, and but for a moment -- when her own dignity and property were touched, she forgot to practise the submission she had taught.' (Essays, vol. |
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| | THE TYRANNICIDE BRIEF - Geoffrey Robertson - Random House Australia |
| | More significantly, he presents the indictment of Charles I as a precedent for trials of modern war criminals and leaders - Goering, Pinochet, Milosevic - who have oppressed their own people. | | | John Cook was not a regicide but a tyrannicide - the first to argue that brutal action by a head of state justified 'regime change'. | | | While it has no shortage of tragedies there are countless little triumphs, as Deb and her family share their love, joy and good times with children who may have never been kissed or hugged before. |
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| | “The Tyrannicide Brief”: an extract Geoffrey Robertson Charlie Devereux - openDemocracy |
| | John Cooke was a pioneering legal thinker in proposing ideas such as the right to silence, the replacement of Latin with English in court proceedings, and the connection between poverty and crime — ideas that were at the time (and even in some quarters today) considered radical and dangerous. | | | John Cooke paid for his role in the trial with his life — a vitriolic vengeance taken upon him when the monarchy was restored in 1660 — but Geoffrey Robertson’s book ensures that, in this case at least, history is not always written by the victors. | | | In The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold, Geoffrey Robertson argues that his fellow lawyer’s exclusion from the history books is to miss a vital moment in the development of modern democracy. |
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| | The Tyrannicide Brief - Reviews - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au |
| | A reader will come away from The Tyrannicide Brief with a greater understanding of the motivation of this puritan lawyer and his friends. | | | It was from Ireland that Cooke was dragged back to the Old Bailey for the trial, described in this book, that led to his brutal execution. | | | Cooke was thrust forward and took the biggest brief of his life. |
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| | Naval History - Chapter Five |
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| | ARPA: Trying times: The life and times of a tyrannicide |
| | The trial of King Charles I of England before the High Court of Justice in 1649 was, in essence, a political contest between a former sovereign and some of his former subjects over the rights of sovereignty. | | | Geoffrey Robertson, The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold, London, Chatto and Windus, 2005 (pp. | | | Trying times: The life and times of a tyrannicide |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Tyrannicide Brief: Books |
| | Unlike other writers - even those writing from a neutral or republican standpoint - who also write about this period, he does not allow himself to be seduced by the whiff of Royalty. | | | Buy The Tyrannicide Brief with The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson today! | | | It will be observed that Geoffrey Robertson calls the book the Tyrannicide Brief not the Regicide Brief so that it is hardly surprising to find that this book is written from a republican point of view. |
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| | Powerslave.com - Article [PRINT VERSION] |
| | Livermore, Calif. -- Amidst his busy schedule, which included traveling to Tennessee to work on the debut Lars Ulrich-run TMC/Elektra label release for his Bay Area-based upstart band Systematic, guitarist/vocalist Tim Narducci found himself in a conversation with old acquaintance Mike Serafin. | | | During that reign on the club circuit, Narducci remembers one of their highest live show points when Tyrannicide shared the stage with D.R.I. and No Mercy for a now legendary performance in the band's seven plus year history. | | | On Halloween, 1984, Narducci, Serafin, guitarist/vocalist Jeff Hill, and bassist Rick Berry came together and performed their first show as Tyrannicide, and would continue a strong seven-year career that saw two tours, including one two-month tour of the States, and one disc entitled "God Save The Scene". |
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| | The Green Ribbon: Levellers |
| | Geoffrey Robertson: We’ve moved on 350 years and the tyrannicide brief fascinates as the first attempt in modern times – since the treaty of Westphalia came into being a few months before the trial, which was the beginning of modern international law – to prosecute a head of state. | | | It is of interest to see how the first effort was made and how some of the problems in that exercise persist. | | | openDemocracy has an interview with Geoffrey Robertson QC, about his book on John Cooke, the Seventeenth Century lawyer who prosecuted Charles I. Charlie Devereux: Do you think that the tyrannicide brief can be used as a precedent to prosecute modern-day tyrants? |
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http://tomgriffin.typepad.com/the_green_ribbon/levellers
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