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3.34- Saturn's Children

Revolutions

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The Trial of the Gerandins Is a Rip-Off of the Past, the Present and the Future

The prosecution moved on to its two big accusations. One of which was preposterous, the other was at least plausible. The idea that the war with try was about intentionally getting france into a war it couldn't win is nuts. Focus on that one line and i think this trial wraps up in a much neater package. But by introducing the other patently absurd charges, the prosecutors gave the garondens the opportunity to make incredulous and thoroughly persuasive rebuttals. By the middle of october, the trial was dragging on and nailing down an irrefutable conviction was looking dicy.

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