by Captain-Socialist » Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:49 pm
Your Honor; I object to this blatant disregard for court procedure by me learned friend the head of prosecution, this 'sudden intervention' of non-legalistic political rhetoric on the subject of the "beauty of the word justice" shows clearly that the prosecution regards this a political trail in which the prosecution may confidently dominate the proceedings with impunity from legality. For what would this court be to give political and moral judgements based upon the politics and morals of the prosecution? It would be a kangaroo court, a sham, a show, a arbitrary enforcement of the will of the victor upon the defeated. Well, your Honor, I tell you the only good justice is when justice is blind. This is the bastion of our free legal system, the founding rock, the fundamental principle. A principle which I'm sure all members of this court profess to share and hopefully to strive for. But what does it mean, blind justice? Innocent until proven guilty?
It means the freedom of the legal procedure from the fires of temperamental passions and political demands. It means judgement without emotion, without prejudice. If we do not abide by these principles then what makes this court any better than a Saiserite one? How can we legally apply the crimes of an entire regime, an entire ideology, upon the head of a single human being, however highly vaunted that human being was by that regime and ideology? I will endeavour to prove throughout this proceduings that it cannot be done legally or morally, and that such a judgement against whom, for want of a better word I will call my client, would make a mockery of justice and bring this court down to the level of my client. We would be enchanted by the Saiserite personality cult ourselves to pass such a judgement, for what would be a better confirmation of the Saiser's power than to place all responsibility upon the head of the Saiser, allowing those who followed him to claim he made them perform those sickening acts which we read of in the pages of Terra's history? No, friends, no one has that much responsibility or that much power. My client sat at the top of the pyramid, so high he could not see the bottom, for it was the bottom of the pyramid friends that did the dirty work. How can this old man, who was surrounded by advisers, generals, ideologues, and followed by millions of murders be held responsible for the crimes of those generals, those advisers, those ideologues and those millions of slivershirted devils? My freinds it simply cannot be done.