No matter what technical and legalistic pretexts the authorities are now using to lock up and destroy the Yunuses, one glance into that courtroom leaves you with no shadow of a doubt – this is a political trial and the supposed perpetrators are in fact victims of a vicious repression campaign against independent critics.
Last week, lawyers from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the firm hired to represent the company, said in a letter to the state that it was "patently obvious" that the state was determined to cancel the contract because of political and financial pressure and was using technical issues as a pretext for the cancellation.
The subject of the film a hectically intense thriller about a young woman named Sawyer Valentini Claire Foyy) who has been the victim of a stalker is simply a pretext for a technical exercise: Soderbergh shot the film entirely on an iPhone.
Campaigners against restrictions on the Internet have also expressed concerns about proposals to bolster security and to crack down on spam — fearing that this could be used as a pretext for censorship — as well as about a proposed technical standard for "deep packet inspection".
The President was also right to recognize that Obamacare's technical problems made "a lot of supporters nervous"; Republicans would use those kinks as a pretext to "go after it even harder," and they might even gloat.
Yet the tale is more than a pretext for a sensational performance by a young company, carefully directed to color its technical dazzle with a dramatic edge: the dancing always carries the story forward.
Cranmer's trial for treason was but a pretext; the queen and her advisers did not intend him to die for the technical offense of having supported Northumberland's insane conspiracy but meant to destroy him for his long-standing offense in promoting Protestantism.
The implementation of a European technical framework, which patients and the industry have been awaiting for several years now, must not serve as a pretext for imposing any particular ideological point of view.
Bottom line, I hope Ms. Mosby did not base the false imprisonment charges on such a technical distinction and that it is clear that the reason that the officers gave for the arrest was a manifest pretext and not a common technical misunderstanding.
September 11th was a pretext.
