Memo to the Monaco judicial standards commission--aha! They don't have any judicial standards in Monaco!
But--(and that's the biggest "but" this side of JLo)--if they did, they'd investigate:
A year and a half ago, Ted's defense team (which includes but is not necessarily limited to) Georges Blot, Donald Manasse and Michael Griffith "requested" (apparently in Monaco, nobody but the Prince and the police and their pawns may "subpoena" anything) 'a couple of files'--
Sacre bleu! These two files were nowhere to be found!
Suddenly--after a year and a half!--they reappear! Like the Virgin of Guadalupe! Like the Shroud of Turin! Like the Rose Law Firm billing records of le senator a Nouveau Yorque!
So! The trial! It proceeds, non? Non.
Now a key figure is leaving the country! So, the court regrets the trial will be delayed.
Monaco's subtext: We have no case against the innocent American Ted Maher today. We had no case against the innocent American Ted Maher yesterday. We will have no case against the innocent American Ted Maher tomorrow. We have only the police state you know as a "principality" and police powers you know as "Napoleanic Law"--which is no law.
America is not dunne with Monaco--we will have our Ted Maher free though the heavens fall.
You're a Texan. You know, the Lone Star State! The Republic! The place where we learn to say "Remember Goliad!" and "Remember the Alamo!!" by the time we're knee-high to an armadillo.
President Bush, this needs your attention. Just one phone call to these Monegasque morons would set things right.
Go ask your Mother. She'll tell you. :-)
Monaco = 0.73 square miles
Texas = 261,914 square miles
Monaco covers about 350 acres and is about the size of New York's Central Park. It's the second-smallest independent state in the world, after Vatican City.
I hear they have a really bad rodent infestation.