In part, this is the result of a 1961 study by the great German historian Fritz Fischer, who, moved by a desire for Germans to face the hard facts of a militarism that did not begin in 1933, insisted that the directly guilty parties were the German chief of general staff, Helmuth von Moltke, and the Austro-Hungarian chief of general staff, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorff.
I have been guilty, directly and by association, of repeating and reinforcing this linear model.
Richard M. Nixon, for instance, was widely criticized for declaring Charles Manson "guilty, directly or indirectly" of murder while Manson's trial was ongoing.
A government spokesman accused Odinga's supporters of "engaging in ethnic cleansing", while Odinga claimed that the President's supporters were "guilty, directly, of genocide".
But because ninety-nine percent of the German population is guilty, directly or indirectly, for the present situation, we can only say that those who travel together will hang together.
So far, the indictment getting at this point most directly is George Papadopoulos's guilty plea unveiled last October.
The suggestion, aimed directly at young artists guilty of deviating from the Communist party line, could prove a serious blow to painters and other artists who have their own definitions of art.
Most of them, they said, were not directly relevant to the guilty verdict but some recorded witness accounts of a second, unidentified man who was with McVeigh on the day of the bombing.
Unlike the children of other indictees interviewed for this story, Maja, a dentist from Belgrade, asked her father directly if he was guilty of the charges against him.
No matter how you analyze the situation he is either guilty of directly attempting to sabotage you or is not sufficiently well versed in the political consequences of actions that could weaken your mission as God's representative on Earth.
Maybe they're not trying to make everyone else feel guilty -- not directly, anyway.
