Do the Swiss bankers have room in their vaults for these, too?

Posted on 04/07/2006 by Laurence Simon

What is it with defense lawyers comparing everything happening to their clients to how the Nazis treated the Jews during the Holocaust?

Government lawyers tried to remove and confiscate the gold dental work known as “grills” or “grillz” from the mouths of two men facing drug charges.

“I’ve been doing this for over 30 years and I have never heard of anything like this,” said Richard J. Troberman, a forfeiture specialist and past president of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

“It sounds like Nazi Germany when they were removing the gold teeth from the bodies, but at least then they waited until they were dead,” he added

What a ridiculous comparison.

  • The drug dealers weren’t then shipped off to a work camp with “Work Makes You Free” in Ebonics over the gate, worked to death, and tossed into the furnaces.
  • When was the last time you went to Bed Bath and Beyond to go shopping for drug dealer-skin lampshades?
  • The drug dealers probably didn’t have any room on their bodies for any more tattoos.
  • How many Jews in 1930’s and 1940’s Europe had gold teeth just to show off?
  • The drug dealers actually had lawyers.
  • Was that a dentist they were brought to or Dr. Mengele? And were they just going to pull out the “grillz” or were they going to perform other medical experiments on the drug dealers?
  • The drug dealers were actual criminals and facing actual legitimate criminal charges against them.

I’m sure there’s other comparisons, but it takes me several days to recover from each reading of Night and I’m content to know that these two punks will likely get their teeth smashed in and robbed by their fellow thungs when they reach prison.

Gotta pay the lawyers somehow, you know.

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I'm a thirty-something dataschmuck in Houston, TX. I spend my free time grilling, baking, playing with cats, and trying to invent the Tequila Sunset.
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One Response to Do the Swiss bankers have room in their vaults for these, too?

  1. Patti says:
    04/07/2006 at 4:40 pm

    The drug dealers also had actual criminal trials, in front of an impartial judge, and Twelve Good Men and True.

    I’ve read Night 3 times so far, the last session being a read-out-loud to Peter, who was assigned the book but couldn’t read it well (reasonably severe learning disability). My, uhhh… , throat… (yes, that’s it) My throat got very dry in the process, and needed many swallows of the nearest liquid (red wine) in order to finish.

    Five days later, during his spring holiday, we were on a tour of Dachau. Munich in the springtime :P

    Outside of the crematoria, I found out why our guide didn’t want us smoking on the grass and ground there… All those ashes, they had to put them somewhere…

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