What is there for me to say? When I finish, you'll sentence me for my crime.
So let me ask you now:
What is a crime? What is a punishment?
It seems to vary from time to time and place to place.
What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow.
What's illegal is suddenly legal because everybody's doing it.
You can't put everybody in jail.
I'm not saying this is right or wrong.
I' m just saying that's the way it is.
I've spent 3 and half years of my life in your prison.
I think I've paid for my error.
If it's your decision today to sentence me to more years ...
My lawyer ... that's a good one.
He says, ''Be cool, Billy.''
''Be good. I'II get you a pardon, an amnesty, an appeal.''
This has been going on now for 3 and half years.
I've been playing it cool. I've been good.
Now I' m damn tired of being good.
You said I had 53 days left.
You hung 53 days in my face, and then you took them away.
And you! (turn towards the prosecutor)
I wish you could be standing where I'm standing right now.
Then you would know something that you don't know:
Mercy!
You would know that a just society is based on the concept of mercy. Its sense of fair play and justice.
But I guess that's like asking a bear to shit in a toilet.
For a nation of pigs, it sure is funny you don't eat them.
Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't.
I hate.
I hate you.
I hate your nation and I hate your people.
I fuck your sons and daughters because they're pigs.
You're a pig.
You're all pigs.
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