Definition of Irony

5:01 am, 8/16/04

Definition of Irony
For those that aren't familiar with the case, Matthew Hale is the Illinois Nazi (I hate Illinois Nazis...) who was accused of plotting to have a federal judge assassinated after the judge ordered him to stop calling his organization "World Church of the Creator" because it infringed on the rights of an Oregon religious group of the same name.

Hale, a law student, was incidentally denied a license to practice law in Illinois in 2002. (Can you believe that you supposedly have to demonstrate character to become a lawyer in this state? A lawyer.)

Well, Hale is finally going to be allowed to serve as an attorney in Illinois. At his own sentencing.

Hale fired his defense attorney, Thomas Durkin, and for a short while was represented by a cousin.

Hale...has asked for a new trial, saying Durkin disparaged him throughout the trial and went ''so far as to calling me names and even telling the jury that I deserved to be convicted on a moral basis.''

When even your own defense attorney thinks you're a sleazebag, it's bad.

In another court filing, Hale also accused the government of altering transcripts of a secretly recorded Dec. 5, 2002, conversation. Hale contends he did not order anyone's murder and was talking about an attorney when reference was made to ''exterminating'' and ''Jew rat,'' and not a federal judge.

Yeah, he was framed! It wasn't the Jew rat judge he was going to exterminate, just the Jew rat attorney! Good grief.