Every defendant has the right to choose whether or not they'll testify at their own trial - gosh, there's that pesky right to self-determination thing again. Not that it'll register with the rubes, of course.
Anyway, a defendant can testify or not testify, depending on their own sense of what's in their best interests.
No judge has the power to deprive any defendant of the right to make that decision. It's up to the defendant and nobody else.
So here comes Mr Snoozy von Schitzinpantz, pretending to be totally oblivious to the fact that he's un-ironically demonstrating two things:
- He has to avoid testifying because cross examination will show him up as a total fucking liar, which could get his ass charged with perjury
- Having shot his mouth off (again) that he'll definitely and freely and absolutely testify, he has to blame someone for preventing him from doing it
And there's that Daddy State thing. "I'm controlling everything. I'm playing 11-dimension chess, and mere mortals can do nothing to keep me from achieving my goals and my rightful place in command of everything. And BTW, those big bad liberal communist-Nazis have tied my hands and won't let me do anything - I'm the victim, and you're being shielded from their evil deeds by me and me alone..."
It's like, how exactly can an all-powerful Christ be brought low by a handful of impotent Pharisees? The answer is a fairly simple exercise in projecting your savior's greatness onto yourself - ie: He's doing it for us, because we're amazing. Let us endeavor to go on proving ourselves worthy of his sacrifice by wearing these stupid hats and rationalizing the fuck out of every contradiction that spills out of his little shit-hole gob. Praise his name.
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