I was asked: “Would you defend Hitler?” I said, “I’d even defend Bush!” “But only if he agrees to plead guilty.”

– Jacques Vergès

This documentary looks very interesting and powerful and I’m actually looking forward to seeing this.

I thought he was Asian when I first saw him, but when he started spewing out French, I was like hmmmm… I looked him up on Wikipedia and it turns out his father was French, but mother was Vietnamese and he was born in Thailand.

This movie is about a lawyer who defends war criminals and leaders of terrorist organizations. He usually stands by himself, fighting against hoards of lawyers. His belief is that the justice is blind and he doesn’t like it when people get taken advantage of, neither friend nor enemy.