Sarcastic Scalia Talks to the BBC: We're No Western Mullahs

The BBC reports here on a Law in Action interview of Antonin Scalia set to air today.  An excerpt of the interview was on The BBC News Hour this morning - listen to it via this link.   Scalia has never been much for using Supreme Court jurisprudence as a means of exporting American values - thus his claim that "we don't pretend to be Western Mullahs who decide what is right and wrong for the whole world."  And he simply doesn't get agitated thinking about slapping around a potential terrorist here or there - or as he refers to it "so called torture."  If you parse his words closely, he doesn't make any dramatic claims - nothing likely to cause him withdraw from actual cases. But he conveys oh-so-much more between the lines.  "Europeans get so self righteous" about capital punishment, he says.  If Europe had representative democracies that really worked, he says, there would be a lot more capital punishment across Europe.