William Barr said ( about Dirty Harry ) : “Americans have tended recently to view [justice] more as a process, as if the criminal justice process is justice, and it isn’t,” “It’s a process that’s supposed to achieve justice, but very frequently doesn’t. As we were talking earlier, that’s the theme in the ‘Dirty Harry’ movies and so forth”

news-yahoo Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:17:00 PM EAT

William Barr added ( about Dirty Harry ) : “There’s that scene in ‘Dirty Harry’ where I think the guy has kidnapped somebody who is running out of oxygen, has a few minutes to live. Dirty Harry asks, ‘Where is she?’ And the other guy smirks at him and he shoots him in the leg or something and the guy tells him where it is,” “I say, now, was that an unjust or morally repellent act? Is the reason that the audience applauds when that happens because the audience is morally bankrupt? Or is there something else going on there? So I think these are interesting issues”

news-yahoo Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:17:00 PM EAT

Michael Mulgrew said ( about Dirty Harry ) : “This is not a ‘Dirty Harry’ movie,”

nytimes Thursday, August 1, 2019 2:19:00 AM EAT

Phelim Kine said ( about Dirty Harry ) : “That rhetoric lends a dangerous credence to a widely held view in the Philippines that only tough-guy, ‘Dirty Harry’ approaches can remedy the country’s crime problem. But providing financial incentives for police to kill criminal suspects is merely a repugnant attempt to legitimize the secretive death squads. Filipinos, who over the years have made great sacrifices for accountability and the rule of law, should resist these moves by their politicians,”

manilastandardtoday Friday, May 20, 2016 8:09:00 PM EAT

William Barr said ( about Dirty Harry ) : “Americans have tended recently to view [justice] more as a process, as if the criminal justice process is justice, and it isn’t,” “It’s a process that’s supposed to achieve justice, but very frequently doesn’t. As we were talking earlier, that’s the theme in the ‘Dirty Harry’ movies and so forth”

news-yahoo Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:17:00 PM EAT

William Barr added ( about Dirty Harry ) : “There’s that scene in ‘Dirty Harry’ where I think the guy has kidnapped somebody who is running out of oxygen, has a few minutes to live. Dirty Harry asks, ‘Where is she?’ And the other guy smirks at him and he shoots him in the leg or something and the guy tells him where it is,” “I say, now, was that an unjust or morally repellent act? Is the reason that the audience applauds when that happens because the audience is morally bankrupt? Or is there something else going on there? So I think these are interesting issues”

news-yahoo Thursday, August 8, 2019 11:17:00 PM EAT

Michael Mulgrew said ( about Dirty Harry ) : “This is not a ‘Dirty Harry’ movie,”

nytimes Thursday, August 1, 2019 2:19:00 AM EAT

Phelim Kine said ( about Dirty Harry ) : “That rhetoric lends a dangerous credence to a widely held view in the Philippines that only tough-guy, ‘Dirty Harry’ approaches can remedy the country’s crime problem. But providing financial incentives for police to kill criminal suspects is merely a repugnant attempt to legitimize the secretive death squads. Filipinos, who over the years have made great sacrifices for accountability and the rule of law, should resist these moves by their politicians,”

manilastandardtoday Friday, May 20, 2016 8:09:00 PM EAT