Is it me, or is this just another fine example of life imitating art?
A lawyer for Charles Graner, accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, on Monday compared piling naked prisoners into pyramids to cheerleader shows and said leashing inmates was also acceptable prisoner control.
"Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?" Guy Womack, Graner's attorney, said in opening arguments to the 10-member U.S. military jury at the reservist sergeant's court-martial.
Charles, buddy, you might consider doing whatever it takes — coupons or a bake sale — to get a better lawyer. Otherwise you may as well start measuring for curtains in your new cell away from home.
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For some reason I feel like those guys are patsies, dont know why. This deepens the belief.
"six to eight times a year."
Where did those numbers come from??? My feeling is that this attorney used "being an extra on JAG" for his qualifications.
He should have referenced the Scorpions. Then he could have said they wanted the prisoners to "Rock You Like a Hurricaine".
Be aggressive, be-ee agressive. B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E
Now, what would've been impressive is if he did his ENTIRE opening statement as a cheer.
I wonder if his research included naked cheerleader pyramids, or just the standard kind...might sway the jury if he has good pictures to pass around.
This is extremely off topic, but I have a t-shirt that says, "Ready? OK!" and it has a cartoon cheerleader on it! How ironic!
I love it when stupid people come out of the woodworks. Always seems to happen during a war. Well, namely Bush's war on terror. I, for on, am feeling terrorized by stupidity.
Well, if the "cheerleader defence" fails, he can always fall back on the "Chewbacca defence." It worked for Chef in South Park, after all.
Chewbacca defence, that was classic.
How do you become a layer now, do you just send off coupons from the paper with $2.95 p&p?
Maybe the lawyer is as dumb as a fox and is doing his best.... aaugh make that worst to sink the case.
Of course there's not much you can do for defense when your client is the biggest idiot in the world to actually take pictures of you doing something so demonsterably horrible and stupid, and then to brag about it with the photos. Seriously, this lawyer - yeah that's pretty stupid - but his client's title of King Stupidity remains his alone.
Allow me to amend though that I find this all amazing that this lawyer is a big enough bonehead for even trying this defense. Maybe it worked on Law & Order once.
I think it is pretty funny, him comparing them to cheerleaders.
The sad thing is, I have oft laughed about that very thought, drawing comics and such to drive the point home that every bit of this war is ridiculous. It just makes me sad that people see someone who makes fun of something to have no soul. I wish more people could look at those pictures, say something like: "Ooh, looks like he's gettin' it good, eh?" and then have a chuckle or two, instead of being reprimanded by all those who are "holier-than-thou."
Sorry for the rant. I concur with you: Dude totally needs a better lawer.
Personally, I find his lawyer fitting. Maybe he'll get what he deserves, rather than getting off with 15 hours of community service and a $250 fine.
I love that our judicial system was created with the concept of "better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be punished," but sometimes it just gets ridiculous.
May justice be done here.
I dunno... I'm not there, and I don't really know what's happening overall, but from what I'm hearing, the bulk of the defense hangs on the notion that Sgt. Scumbag was just doing what he was told. Since I suspect that may very well be true, I hope the lawyer does well convincing a lot of people that maybe we SHOULD look into how high this really went.
I don't believe Sgt. Scumbag and his buddies we're sitting around playing cards one day and said "hey, you know what would be really cool...."
There was at the very least a culture, if not outright standing orders, and the folks who need to fry most are probably never going to see a courtroom at all.
Baxter, you're right but we're talking about cheerleaders who do this 6-8 times a year!
Was his lawyer's name Lionel Hutz, by any chance?
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This is the same clueless lawyer that said that al Sheikh's testimony had been good for his client: "It was the face of the enemy. It's very clear that he hates America."
He was found guilty.
And, um, I just wanted to comment on a topic other than Win!