How to win in court

Marge 2022-04-07 09:01:06

The film is not so much about World War II history as it is purely about British law, how they think logically, identify and adjudicate. The heroine is a writer, researcher, and Jewish, and she is inevitably very emotional in this matter. She feels that questioning the matter itself is inexcusable, and her lawyer, apparently professionally, told her one thing, emotional useless in court, The more emotional , the more vulnerable to attack, it's harder to prove a thing is true than to prove that a thing isn't true, so they didn't argue that the massacre was true In this case, they attacked the plaintiff's flaws, pointing out that he intentionally distorted some facts he knew for his own benefit. The highlight is the judge's sentence at the back, what if he really thinks so, the implication is that you can say that he has a bad mind, but you can't seem to say that he did it on purpose. Haha, I feel that these people are really very specific in their view of the problem. To form a chain, it must be reasonable, and to distinguish clear motivation and cause and effect, what a clear brain circuit is needed to become a lawyer in the UK! Of course, the final judgment still requires human judgment. The judge considers which situation is more likely to a greater extent. It is true that there is no absolute fact without absolute evidence, but we still have to make judgments.

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  • Richard Rampton: They're a strange thing consciences. Trouble is, what feels best isn't necessarily what works best.

  • David Irving: [first lines; in a video speaking to a sympathetic audience] I don't see any reason to be tasteful about Auschwitz. I say to you quite tastelessly that more women died on the back seat of Senator Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.

    [audience laughing and applauding]

    Deborah Lipstadt: Holocaust denial rests on four basic assertions. Number 1: That there was never any systematic or organized attempt by the Nazis to kill all of Europe's Jews. Number 2: That the numbers are far fewer than five or six million. Number 3: That there were no gas chambers or specially built extermination facilities. Number 4: That the Holocaust is therefore a myth invented by Jews to get themselves financial compensation and to further the fortunes of the State of Israel. War, the deniers say, is a bloody business. There's nothing special about the Jews, they're not unique in their suffering. They're just everyday casualties of war. What's the fuss?

    Deborah Lipstadt: Okay, and here's another question, how do we know the Holocaust happened? Seriously. I'm asking. How do we prove it? Photographic evidence? Not one person in this room or outside it has ever seen a photograph of a Jew inside a gas chamber. You know why? Because the Germans made sure that none were ever taken. So how do we know? How do we *know* that so many were murdered? So what's the proof? Where's the proof? How strong is it?