Demjanjuk - guilty or not guilty?

[Chakravartin]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=Chakravartin]
While he made a token gesture to indicate that Demjanjuk would not be absolved in such a case, he subsequently proceeded to put the entire burden of guilt upon the state rather than the individual, calling Demjanjuk a "scapegoat."

Scapegoats aren't by definition blameless or innocent...
Scapegoat: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scapegoat

Perhaps you meant to use a different word?

rjmacs wrote:
...and in this case i have made no claim that Demjanjuk is either one.

"...it makes scapegoats of the people we happen to find and decide to prosecute."

rjmacs wrote: I never put the "entire burden of guilt upon the state rather than the individual."

"...it makes scapegoats of the people we happen to find and decide to prosecute."

If the criminal actor is a scapegoat then someone else is to blame. The only other party that you identified is the state.

rjmacs wrote:
BOTH/AND.

That's stupid.

States are not persons.

And contradictory. You identified the people who committed the murder as "scapegoats." A scapegoat is by definition blameless.