Objectivist Committee Supporting Conrad Black

Since The Verdict is only shown from Sundays to Thursdays, an episode wasn't shown tonight. Instead of a report on it, I point to an item from the "Daily Intelligencer," the blog of New York magazine. There's an ad hoc committee to support Conrad Black, one set up by Objectivists.

This committee has a Website, and 24 letters of support for Conrad Black as of the time of this post. As far as I can tell, it's ad hoc in more ways than one; it has drawn no mention from the official organ of Objectivism, nor from any other I've come across. The closest to a mention was a recent op-ed, by Peter Schwartz, on the theme that the current criticism of income inequality in America is raging against an epiphenomenon; it contains the Australianism "cutting down the tall poppies." There's also a brief press release criticizing a legislative proposal to put executive compensation on the shareholders' proxies for every annual meeting of public companies, but nothing explicitly related to the trial is there.