Black Liberation Army

endommager » fut repris avec ironie par les militants contre la guerre du Viêt-nam. Mais, au début des années 1970, les mentalités changèrent. « L’ordinateur, après avoir été décrié, en tant qu’instrument d’un pouvoir bureaucratique, devenait symbole de libération et d’expression individuelle », écrivait John Markoff dans son essai sur la convergence entre contre-culture et informatique, What the Dormouse Said. On retrouvait cette idée magnifiée dans un poème de Richard Brautigan en 1967, All Watched Over

them. 349 On 6 November 2002, the British Court of Appeal criticized the status of Feroz Abassi, a British man detained at Guantanamo Bay as “legally objectionable” and commented that “Mr. Abassi is at present arbitrarily detained in a legal black hole”. The finding came in a judgment that the court lacked jurisdiction to compel the British Foreign Secretary to intervene in Abassi’s case. The Queen (on the application of Abassi and another) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth

indigenous governments that take over after colonies gain their independence—will be as arbitrary as the colonial governments themselves in the sense that neither can be justified by considerations of consent. Mill pictured self-determination as liberation from repressive foreign "yokes" imposed on people without their consent.64 But if successor governments are similarly nonconsensual, one might wonder what makes a domestic yoke more acceptable than a foreign one. A possible response would be that