Carl Schmitt/Bill Barr

[Keith Davis]

Right on. Thanks for the scholarship.

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> On Jan 19, 2020, at 5:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Where Dante places this administration:
> 
> *Bolgia Eight:* In this trench, the souls of Deceivers who gave false or
> corrupted advice to others for personal benefit are punished. They are
> constantly ablaze, appearing as nothing so much as living, speaking tongues
> of flame.
> 
> *Bolgia Nine:* Sinners who, in life, promoted scandals, schism
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schism>, and discord are punished here;
> particularly those who caused schism within the church or within politics.
> They are forced to walk around the circumference of the circle bearing
> horrible, disfiguring wounds inflicted on them by a great demon with a
> sword. The nature of the wound mirrors the sins of the particular soul;
> while some only have gashes, or fingers and toes cut off, others are
> decapitated, cut in half (as schismatics), or are completely disemboweled.
> Among those who are tormented here is Bertran de Born
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertran_de_Born>, alleged agitator of the Revolt
> of 1173–74 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_1173%E2%80%9374>, who
> carries around his severed head like a lantern.
> 
> *Bolgia Ten:* Falsifiers, those who attempted to alter things through lies
> or alchemy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy>, or those who tried to
> pass off false things as real things, such as counterfeiters
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_money> of coins, are punished
> here. This bolgia has four subdivisions where specific classes of
> falsifiers (alchemists, impostors, counterfeiters, and liars) endure
> different degrees of punishment based on horrible, consumptive diseases
> such as rashes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rash>, dropsy
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropsy>, leprosy
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy> and consumption
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis>.
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 8:47 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This administration is corrupt as hell, as is the whole Republican Party.
>> Their prime goal is power ($$$).  All else is kabuki.
>> 
>> David Morris
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:27 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> makes for rather depressing reading
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/15/william-barr-the-carl-schmitt-of-our-time/
>>> 
>>> US Attorney General William Barr’s defense of unchecked executive
>> authority
>>> in his recent speech to the Federalist Society had an unpleasant
>>> familiarity for me. It took me back to a time in my life—during the late
>>> 1990s, as a graduate student in England, and the early 2000s, teaching
>>> political theory in the politics department at Princeton University—when
>> I
>>> seemed to spend altogether too much time arguing over the ideas of a Nazi
>>> legal theorist notorious as the “crown jurist” of the Third Reich.
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