To hoots and applause from supporters in Trinidad, Warner said: "If I have been thieving Fifa money for 30 years, who gave me the money?
Born in 1910, abandoned and brought up by the state, homosexual, imprisoned for thieving at 16, sent out to join the foreign legion at 18, then imprisoned for petty crime repeatedly in the 1940s, he had at the same time produced the masterpieces that attracted the attention and solidarity of Cocteau, Sartre and André Breton.
Warner, among those charged in the US, said after his arrest last week: "If I have been thieving money for 30 years, who gave me the money?
My own school career included stealing, shouting at teachers, smashing windows, submitting aggressively pornographic stories as GCSE coursework, getting caught having sex, nearly getting expelled, earning one E at A-level, and not heading off to Oxford University, as my parents had hoped, but to a job in a shop from which I was sacked for thieving.
With no adult guidance; it is not uncommon for children to be involved in prostitution, drug use, begging and thieving.
Failures were the fault of corrupt officials who had deceived the great man.In fact Venezuela's crumbling bridges, thieving officials, uncontrolled inflation and high crime rates resulted from Mr Chávez's management style, a kind of chaotic authoritarianism.
Such incidents are not so surprising in a lucrative trade marred by thieving, swindling and espionage.
Not all members of the shadow cabinet have been converted to these instincts: a Tory press ad this week quoted (out of context, says Labour) Frank Dobson, the environment spokesman, describing business people as "stinking, lousy, thieving, incompetent scum".
Cattle-rustlers are, to misquote John Wayne, a thieving pack of scoundrels.
Isenberg's Earp is not a hero but a scalawag, flitting from one cow town to the next, and surviving by gambling, horse-thieving, pimping, embezzling, and policing.
"It was clearly permitted when the Eighth Amendment was adopted (not merely for murder, by the way, but for all felonies — including, for example, horse-thieving, as anyone can verify by watching a Western movie).
