[ WP ] You 're the defendant , but it 's everybody else that is on trial - they just do n't know it .

Kang Sehyeong v. The People of Korea 
 
 
 `` The defense will now give their closing remarks.'' 
 
 
 `` Thank you, Your Honor. 
 
 
 Enter the Korean War. Red versus Blue, communist versus capitalist, North versus South. For decades, a boundary of steel, tanks, missiles, guns, and speakers has been drawn along the thirty-eighth parallel. Three months ago, all the pent-up hatred had come to a head and the greatest battle in decades – the Mideastern War was a small skirmish compared to this – began. 
 
 
 The Kim dynasty marched their forces across what had been a boundary of relative peace for years, finally angered by the crippling economic sanctions that chained it down, and backed by Chinese and Russian soldiers, took Seoul at lightning speed unrivalled since the days of the blitzkrieg. What followed was a massacre of titanic proportions. 
 
 
 What were the orders of the Woodley administration? Stand down. Do not fight. Allow one of the greatest atrocities in human history to happen right before our eyes. America, defender of peace and liberty, a blind crippled bystander. Is it any wonder that Admiral Kang Sehyeong and his loyal men disobeyed orders and captained the USS Andromeda to assist, with her weapons, in the Second Korean War? A flagrant violation of military protocol, yes, but unjustified? Far from it. 
 
 
 America is no longer an island of splendid isolation. No, it is tied by chains of trade and diplomacy to nearly every country in the world. What, then, did she do while her faithful allies were being slaughtered? Nothing. Is it any wonder that Admiral Sehyeong was compelled to take whatever steps necessary to defend his own people? This is not an era of complacency or appeasement! This is an era of action, and let us be damned if we do not act upon it! 
 
 
 The media decries Sehyeong's actions as traitorous.'Rebel! Madman! Hijacker!' they label him. What—'' 
 
 
 `` Objection, Your Honor! No references to outside media in the courtroom as per Article…'' 
 
 
 `` Sustained.'' 
 
 
 `` Your Honor, with all due respect… Fuck you and your protocol. This is what is wrong with us! We allow rules, and regulations to overshadow our compassion, our humanity! We have become no better than the communists we condemn! If we do not act in Korea, we are complacent to their crimes, and let us be damned for it! 
 
 
 So let me ask you something, Your Honor. Today, we have Admiral Kang Sehyeong in the court. If this military court finds him guilty of insubordination and treason… who does that really condemn, the Admiral, or society? Who is really on trial here: Mr. Sehyeong, or everybody else? 
 
 
 Thank you.''
