the trial of abu ghraib prison guard charles graner began yesterday. graner's lawyer, guy womack said in his opening statements that using naked and hooded detainees to make a human pyramid was much like what cheerleaders "all over America" do at football games.
what an argument! maybe in his next few cases, womack will use the following:
-when defending a person accused of embezzling for transferring his company's pension fund into his personal checking account, womack could say: "All my client did is transfer funds from one account to another. Balance transfers happen every day all over America, our economy could not exist without them."
-when defending a person accused of rape, womack could say: "The prosecution says my client had sexual intercourse. But people have sexual intercourse every day, our species' survival depends upon it."
-when defending a person accused of stabbing someone in the heart: "What my client is accused of doing is no different from what surgeons do all the time all across america. They're even paid a tidy sum for their efforts. The question here is not whether my client is guilty of any crime, but rather why he never received any pay for it."
