Sir, - It is an interesting notion that the more blatant and universally known the wrong-doing, the less appropriate it is to allow a trial. Slobodan, Saddam, Augusto et al would be tickled pink.
If you lean over backwards far enough, you end up upside-down and back-to-front. And if an elephant is hard to describe but you'd know one if you saw one, would a reductio ad absurdum be similar?
And this is not even the trial of the substantive issue. - Yours, etc.,
Hugh Campbell, Johnswell Road, Kilkenny.