The following quotes from the Greek classical authors Aeschylus and Sophocles are relevant to my forthcoming criminal trial, and express my own attitude to the proceedings, and those involved with them. (All the translations are mine.)

1) In respect of my own feelings about the proceedings:
 

"What is now, came to be
As it came to be. And its ending has been ordained."

Aeschylus - Agamemnon   vv. 67-68
 

"A learning from adversity:
Even in sleep there trickles through the heart
The disabling recalling of the pain:
And wisdom arrives regardless of desire,
A favour from the gods
Who have taken the seats of honour, by force."

Aeschylus  -  Agamemnon  vv. 177-183
 

2) In respect of those who have contrived these proceedings and the laws upon which they are based:
 

"There is no protection
In riches for the man of excess
Who stamps down the great altar of the goddess, Judgement,
In order to hide it from view."

Aeschylus  -  Agamemnon  vv. 381-384

Such people have given in to a vigorously enduring Temptation (v. 385) but in the end the gods "take down those persons who, lacking fairness, turn their attention to such things"  (v. 396-398). The gods often send the blood-letting Furies after such individuals, and their descendants, and lay upon their people "an unbearable affliction"  (v. 395) often for generations.
 
 

"So - you dared to violate these laws?"

"Yes - for it was not Zeus who proclaimed them to me,
Nor did She who dwells with the gods below - the goddess Judgement -
Lay down for us mortals such laws as those.
Neither did I suppose that your edicts
Had so much strength that you, who die,
Could out-run the unwritten and unchangeable
Customs of the gods: for the life of these things
Is not only of yesterday or today, but eternal,
No one remembering their birth.

I did not seek - because I feared any man's pride -
To be punished by the gods for breaking their customs:
For I clearly understood I would die even before your proclamation.
That my death is now sooner, I say is a gain
Since how can he who lives among so many cowards as I
Not find honour in so dying?
There is thus for me no sorrow in this
My destined fate."

Sophocles  -  Antigone vv. 450-466
 
 

It is to be hoped - our gods willing - that my own people will wake up and learn from the adversity of the tyrannical times we live in, and from the even worse adversity and tyranny which is to come.