And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he
felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning
national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the
foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»
My
feeling is that the Lords went as far out in the issue of
foreign torture and the extension of
national jurisdiction over crimes abroad as they are likely to go in some of the statements in the Pinochet case (Regina v. Bartle) at http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd990324/pino1.htm.