But the vandalism Coetzee commits upon the easily checked facts of his own life ultimately serves to sharpen a question that does seem genuine, and genuinely self-indicting: Doesn't being a great artist demand, or at least imply, a certain greatness of spirit as well?
The bill would have made domestic violence the 13th legal justification for divorce, as long as it was "established by clear and convincing evidence, where the perpetrator commits upon a spouse one of the following: attempting to cause, or purposely or knowingly causing, bodily injury to the spouse; or attempting by physical menace to put the spouse in fear of imminent serious bodily harm".
And it is what the unprincipled religious do when they willfully misinterpret sacred texts in an attempt to give validity to the atrocities they commit upon others.
It extends well beyond its geographical region because of the human rights violations committed upon its people by an illegal military junta that thirsts only for money and power.
"It is indeed a characteristic of the situation in Libya that massive crimes are reportedly committed upon instruction of a few persons who control the organisations that execute the orders," Moreno-Ocampo said.
The Tokyo Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (1963) and the Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970) recognize that states have the right and even the duty of jurisdiction with respect to any crime committed upon aircraft registered in that state.
The core of the film is complicity and guilt: two crucial scenes, viewed in flashback (Anthony mentions them — Martha's involvement in another girl's rape by the cult leader, and an act of criminal "brutality" committed "upon ordinary people" outside the cult), provide the key to the drama.
He undermines the American democratic system by saying it's rigged and setting the stage for the "great fraud" committed upon him that will cost him the election.
Further, more generally, § 14 of the Crimes Act of 1825 provided that "the trial of all offences which shall be committed upon the high seas or elsewhere, out of the limits of any state or district, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may first be brought".
I'm sure that when he acted the shocking finale of the 2006 Christmas special "The Runaway Bride", in which the Doctor, a crazed and vengeful glint in his eye, commits infanticide upon the brood of a spidery alien queen, he was aware that the Doctor's moral history contains many such moments.
For its part, during all this time, the police have claimed that they stop people based upon reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed, based upon a description of a perpetrator, and as an effective tool to get guns off the street," Vincent Warren, CCR's executive director, recently told me.
