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Krauthammer: Why We Should Let O.J. Speak
Time Magazine ^ | November 22, 2006 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 11/21/2006 9:29:15 PM PST by RWR8189

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1 posted on 11/21/2006 9:29:18 PM PST by RWR8189
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The attention and money Simpson (and Fox) would have garnered from the deal are not half as outrageous as the fact that every day he walks free.

[::Nodding::] Yup. Yup. And yup.

2 posted on 11/21/2006 9:31:25 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("On 11/07/06, 'true' conservatives and 'rat traitors joined forces to bring Sharia law to America.")
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To: RWR8189

Once again Charles the K has hit the nail on the head.


3 posted on 11/21/2006 9:33:26 PM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where a Ruger Auto 10/22 makes the rules.)
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Thanks Charles, now, is it OK if we never hear about OJ again? One of the best things Rush ever did was "No OJ, none of the time"!


4 posted on 11/21/2006 9:36:04 PM PST by bybybill (`IF TH E RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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To: RWR8189

Krauthammer is probably right. The idea that we would have then been subjected to months of OJ is disturbing and tiring, but the number of people who believe he is innocent is also disturbing.


5 posted on 11/21/2006 9:36:38 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: RWR8189

Great writing! I saw this as a crass book promotion, but maybe Charlie is right.


6 posted on 11/21/2006 9:39:05 PM PST by La Enchiladita (I will chill out when I'm dead . . .)
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To: RWR8189

Wrong, what's next, cooking with John Wayne Gacey?


7 posted on 11/21/2006 9:40:37 PM PST by John Lenin (The most dangerous place for a child in America is indeed in its mother's womb)
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To: RWR8189

If OJ had admitted his guilt and said he killed her because she was playing the whore with all of california in front of his kids, I would have had sympathy for him. He still would've been jailed for murder, but at least I would have understood.

He's never said that, so my guess is that it wasn't the case.

Krauthammer's right. OJ doing this "if" thing is conclusive about his guilt.


8 posted on 11/21/2006 9:40:51 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I still remember all the 'students' at GWU jumping up and cheering when the verdict was announced.


9 posted on 11/21/2006 9:42:19 PM PST by UpAllNight
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To: RWR8189

OJ still can speak - let him put a video up on YouTube.


10 posted on 11/21/2006 9:43:31 PM PST by glorgau
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To: RWR8189

The jurors came to the correct verdict. It's become rather obvious that the blood evidence was tainted and that establishes reasonable doubt. He could be guilty as sin but it's very hard to prove that using tampered blood.

The jury may have not have reached the correct verdict with the correct reasoning but they did, nonetheless. get the verdict right.

FWIW, the civil jury got it right too. There are separate standards for the two types of law. In the civil case, the prosecutors just needs to prove a preponderance of the evidence while a criminal trial requires guilt be on a reasonable doubt. The civil jury also heard about the Bruno Magli shoes which the criminal jury did not hear.

Don't blame the jurors. They did their jobs correctly. Instead, blame the LAPD who, in their rush to nab O.J. Simpson, planted his blood at the crime scene in order to throw the case their way and were caught (pardon the pun) red-handed.


11 posted on 11/21/2006 9:44:38 PM PST by Tall_Texan (NO McCain, Rudy, Romney, Hillary, Kerry, Obama or Gore in 2008!)
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To: RWR8189

bttt


12 posted on 11/21/2006 9:45:09 PM PST by perfect stranger (Tagline tomorrow, tagline yesterday, but no tagline today.)
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To: John Lenin
"Cooking with Fava Beans" by Hannibal Lector

"Machete Sharpening Tips" by Jason Voorhees.

The possibilities are endless.

13 posted on 11/21/2006 9:46:50 PM PST by Reaganesque
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I'm getting ready to dump television, this would have made it that much faster.


14 posted on 11/21/2006 9:48:58 PM PST by John Lenin (The most dangerous place for a child in America is indeed in its mother's womb)
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To: sageb1
a death he publicly mourned and pretended to be so aggrieved by that he would spend the rest of his days looking for "the real killers" — to engage in the exercise of telling how he would have cut her throat?
15 posted on 11/21/2006 9:49:17 PM PST by perfect stranger (Tagline tomorrow, tagline yesterday, but no tagline today.)
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To: Reaganesque

Picnicking in Fort Marcy park


16 posted on 11/21/2006 9:49:32 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: xzins

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Krauthammer's right. OJ doing this "if" thing is conclusive about his guilt."

The guy giving police a long chase and ending up with (iirc) holding a gun to his own head was pretty conclusive, but that was often ignored in what followed.


17 posted on 11/21/2006 9:50:41 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Tall_Texan

Slam dunk without the blood.

Jury nullilfication means just that.


18 posted on 11/21/2006 9:51:11 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: La Enchiladita

Since O.J.'s victims were a different race (and one was also Jewish), why couldn't he be tried as a "hate crime" or denying Ron and Nicole their "civil rights"?

It worked against southern racists who killed blacks, so why not blacks who kill whites?


19 posted on 11/21/2006 9:51:19 PM PST by Tall_Texan (NO McCain, Rudy, Romney, Hillary, Kerry, Obama or Gore in 2008!)
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To: RWR8189
Here's the television I really will miss now: the cameras taken into the homes of every one of those twelve willful jurists who sprung O.J. free 12 years ago and made a mockery of the law by trying to turn a brutal murderer of two into a racial victim/hero. I wanted to see their faces as the man they declared innocent described to the world how he would have taken—nonsense: how he did take—the knife to Nicole's throat.

This is silly. Does Krauthammer expect them to show remorse, regret, embarrassment? Sorry to burst your bubble, Charles, but all you'd see on the faces of these "willful jurists" is a laugh-in-your-face leer. Simpson is a hero to these folks because they know he's guilty and they got him off, not because he's innocent and they protected him from an unjust conviction. The applause was for sticking it in The Man's eye, and the applause will be even louder when OJ himself tells the world it's true.

20 posted on 11/21/2006 9:51:20 PM PST by Steely Tom
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