Convicted of a crime I didn’t even commit! “Attempted Murder”? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for “Attempted Chemistry”? Do they?
We can’t bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m’shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Now where was I… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn’t get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
Well, if it’s a crime to love one’s country, then I’m guilty. And if it’s a crime to steal a trillion dollars from our government and hand it over to communist Cuba, then I’m guilty of that too. And if it’s a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I’ll soon be guilty of that!
When I call an establishment asking to speak to my Russian business associate Yuri Nator, I do not expect to be lectured to like I was a ten year old boy making a crank call.
This anonymous band of slack-jawed troglodytes just cost me the election. Yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail! That’s democracy for you.