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18th February 2012, 11:55 AM
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Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
Geoffrey Robertson Q.C will be giving the inaugural Christopher Hitchens Memorial Lecture at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention.
 Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. is head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's largest human rights practice, a Master of the Middle Temple, and serves as a 'distinguished jurist member' of the UN's Justice Council. He was the first President of the the UN War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone, and has delivered ground-breaking judgements on the illegality of recruiting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties for crimes against humanity. He has argued many landmark civil liberties cases and has acted against General Pinochet and Hastings Banda and for Salman Rushdie, Mike Tyson and Julian Assange. His recent book "The Case of The Pope" has been translated into many languages. He is author of "The Justice Game" (a memoir), The Tyrannicide Brief and "Crimes Against Humanity". In 2011 he received The New York Bar Award Award for Distinction in International Law and Affairs.
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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#2
18th February 2012, 12:21 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
You are the organising committee to end all organising committees.
I love the word Inaugural in that title.
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It's a very interesting thing, losing one's religion. It's like a revolution for one. --Jimmy Carr
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#3
18th February 2012, 12:59 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
Wish I was going
I strongly recommend his 2010 book "The Case Of The Pope" Available for $AU6.59 (free p&h) http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/sear...&search=search
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18th February 2012, 03:55 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
Quote:
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#7
18th February 2012, 04:14 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
This is just...this is...just...No. I got nothing.
It's like being on the rack. Every time you think you've had just about all you can take, they serve up something else unbelievable and you know that you've just been cranked up yet another notch. Geoffrey Fucking Robertson. DAMN!
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#8
18th February 2012, 04:20 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
Sweeet!
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Well, good, good. Finally, a nemesis worthy of my vast intellect. Holmes versus Moriarty... Aristotle versus mashy spike plate! Why do people think that Jesus is coming back? It's not like he was nailed to a fucking boomerang.
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#9
18th February 2012, 05:15 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
Now I am really pissed!
 Dammit! The DVD better be really high quality.
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#10
18th February 2012, 01:00 PM
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Re: Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.
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Robert A. Heinlein: Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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