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WIST Quotations May 13

A quotation from Thomas More

It seems to me a very unjust thing to take away a man’s life for a little money, for nothing in the world can be of equal value with a man’s life: and if it be said, “that it is not for the money that one suffers, but for his breaking the law,” I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion.

[Omnino mihi uidetur inquam pater benignissime homini uitam eripi propter ereptam pecuniam prorsus iniquum esse. Siquidem cum humana uita ne omnibus quidem fortunae possessionibus paria fieri posse arbitror. Quod si laesam iustitiam, si leges uiolatas, hac rependi poena dicant, haud pecuniam; quid ni merito summum illud ius, summa uocetur iniuria! Nam neque legum probanda sunt tam Manliana imperia, ut sicubi in leuissimis parum obtemperetur, illico stringant gladium; neque tam Stoica scita, ut omnia peccata adeo existiment paria, uti nihil iudicent interesse, occidatne aliquis hominem, an nummum ei surripiat, inter quae (si quicquam aequitas ualet) nihil omnino simile aut affine.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Burnet/Morley (1901)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/84005/

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Italian News by RSS May 4

Agi: Morto Diego Marmo, il pm che accusò Enzo Tortora

AGI - È morto all'età di 88 anni il magistrato Diego Marmo. Da pm ha rappresentato l'accusa nel procedimento contro il conduttore televisivo, Enzo Tortora, imputato per associazione camorristica e traffico di droga, sulla base di dichiarazioni di pentiti. Un errore giudiziario ammesso anni dopo l'assoluzione del presentatore da parte della Cassazione nel 1987, per il quale Marmo chiese scusa alla famiglia.
Il magistrato ha anche ricoperto il ruolo di procuratore a Torre Annunziata e di assessore alla Legalità del comune di Pompei. Del decesso, avvenuto domenica, si è appreso oggi. I funerali si terranno domani a Napoli.
La serie tv sul caso Tortora
Nella bellissima serie tv di Marco Bellocchio, 'Portobello', realizzata per la piattaforma HBO Max, il pubblico ministero Diego Marmo era interpretato da Fausto Russo Alesi. In un'intervista all'AGI l'attore ha spiegato uno dei motivi dell'errore giudiziario che ha travolto Tortora sottolineando una delle fragilità del sistema di allora: "Sicuramente una particolarità di quel sistema era il fatto che bastavano tre testimonianze per fare una prova, per essere una prova e questo sicuramente è qualche cosa di abbastanza inconcepibile, per fortuna adesso questa cosa non c’è più".

Diego Marmo is dead, the prosecutor who accused Enzo Tortora.

AGI - Magistrate Diego Marmo has died at the age of 88. As a prosecutor, he represented the accusation in the proceedings against television presenter Enzo Tortora, who was accused of camorra association and drug trafficking, based on the testimony of repentinos (informers). An judicial error was admitted years after the presenter’s acquittal by the Supreme Court in 1987, for which Marmo apologized to the family.

The magistrate also held the role of prosecutor in Torre Annunziata and assessor for Legality in the municipality of Pompeii. The death, which occurred Sunday, was learned today. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in Naples.

The Tortora Case TV Series
In the beautiful TV series ‘Portobello’ by Marco Bellocchio, produced for the HBO Max platform, the public prosecutor Diego Marmo was portrayed by Fausto Russo Alesi. In an interview with AGI, the actor explained one of the reasons for the judicial error that overwhelmed Tortora, highlighting one of the weaknesses of the time: “Certainly a characteristic of that system was the fact that just three testimonies were enough to present evidence, for it to be considered evidence, and this certainly is something quite inconceivable, fortunately this thing no longer exists now.”

#DiegoMarmo #EnzoTortora #theSupremeCourt #Marmo #TorreAnnunziata #Legality #Pompeii #Naples #MarcoBellocchio #HBOMax #FaustoRussoAlesi

https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2026-05-04/tortora-morto-pm-marmo-36889103/

CBC World Apr 29

Trump's move to deport Haitian, Syrian immigrants goes to Supreme Court, with possible wider implications
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in Washington over the legality of a move by Donald Trump's administration to revoke temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents from Haiti and Syria, but a ruling could potentially impact even more immigrants.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-scotus-haiti-syria-migrants-9.7181026?cmp=rss

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Nikolas Kozloff Apr 6

Is anyone in the #military going to question this?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-updates_n_69d3a02fe4b05537a7f1b1ba/liveblog_69d3fbffe4b05537a7f202f1#warcrimes #hague #law #legality #trump #Iran #iranwar #fascism #donaldtrump

Trump Promises To Pardon Everyone In His Orbit Before Leaving Office: WSJ

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Protyus A. Gendher Mar 26

#legality #loveland

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/26/loveland-leases-the-legality-gap-2/

Loveland Leases – The Legality Gap

Clauses that were already illegal when written. How leases violate Colorado law — and why illegal clauses persist when enforcement is impossible. 1. The Central Revelation: The Law Was Already on Y…

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Protyus A. Gendher Mar 26

#Habitability #legality

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/03/26/habitability-evasion-how-landlords-shift-legal-duties-to-tenants-normalize-unsafe-housing-and-use-as-is-clauses-as-structural-traps/

HABITABILITY EVASION: How Landlords Shift Legal Duties to Tenants, Normalize Unsafe Housing, and Use “As-Is” Clauses as Structural Traps

1. The Promise of Habitability Colorado law (since 2008) requires landlords to provide: safe, stable floors working plumbing functioning heat weatherproofing no mold no infestations structurally so…

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BellingenNSW Mar 13

World in 'new dark age' of abuse: UN rights expert

"The world has entered a "new dark age of abuses", with the United States "raining death" on Iran and Venezuela, a UN special rapporteur said Thursday. Ben Saul, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, said the war in the Middle East would not improve global security."

"It's very disturbing that at the moment you're seeing states kind of all over the map sympathising with these attacks, not calling it as illegal, or calling it as illegal but then saying we support the US anyway." >>
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260312-world-in-new-dark-age-of-abuse-un-rights-expert

Ben Saul is Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. >>
https://profiles.sydney.edu.au/ben.saul

#War #violence #InternationalLaw #law #legality #UN #HumanRights

World in 'new dark age' of abuse: UN rights expert

The world has entered a "new dark age of abuses", with the United States "raining death" on Iran and Venezuela, a UN special rapporteur said Thursday.

FRANCE 24