Posted on 11/21/2006 9:29:15 PM PST by RWR8189
Remember, he still has kids and he wouldn't have admitted a thing!
I cannot bear to see O.J's face for more than a few seconds. I could not watch it. But Krauthammer once again brings a unique perspective to current events.
I think you are exactly right.
I was thinking the same thing myself.
He will be a pariah until he dies, and that is at least some punishment.
I don't want to hear any more from him or about him.
More disturbing still is the number of people who simply think it should be legal to kill white people.
There is never any shortage of morons whose understanding of "reasonable doubt" is based on watching too many television shows. There was not reasonable doubt, and the jurors did not reach the correct verdict. O.J.'s guilt was proven beyond dispute, but the brazenly racist jury let their hatred of white folks carry the day.
Great post. That has got to be the feeling of lots of blacks but what immedidately strikes me is I never read it in the MSM - only here.
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.
I believe that a number of those jurors would maintain that their verdict was right even if OJ is truly the murderer because, well, it works out to white people have more money than black people.
He doesn't get 3.5 mil for YouTube
Nobody actually believes he is innocent. Some are just glad he escaped justice.
Yep. You're right about that, Tex. Not many here will agree though.
One small quibble I might agree with is that it does not appear that the jury did their jobs correctly. Some have said, somewhat convincingly, that at least a few of the jurors just voted not guilty for reasons that had nothing to do with the evidence. They came to the right conclusion, however.
1. The black/white divide was revealed in all its ugliness when those cheers went up for the not guilty verdict.
2. The morbid fascination of the public for the trial resulted in the rise of Court TV and various "true crime" shows like Greta's on Fox, which has lowered the standard for news channels, turning them into nothing but gossip mongers and purveyors of prurient interest stories.
3. The trial was a showcase for the banal and narcicisstic culture of a large section of Los Angeles area wealthy residents, whose testimony as OJ's neighbors and Nicole's friends revealed a mindless self-absorption in material possessions and celebrity.
4. The American obsession with television stardom gave us prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges, jurors and witnesses who were more interested in getting time on TV talk shows than in actually fulfilling their civic responsibilities.
5. The system of jury trial has been perhaps severely damaged, in that we saw with O'J's acquittal and later Robert Blake's and of course, Michael Jackson's, that wealthy celebrities will not be convicted of anything. Who you are and how much money you have does, indeed, make a difference. So much for the lofty idea of blind Justice.
6. Finally, the unwholesome worship of televsion and movie stars hit us smack in the face. For some reason, movie celebrity confers some sort of sanctity on otherwise pedestrian people, and the public simply refuses to believe that they could do anything wrong.
All in all, I believe historically this trial will be studied by sociologists and historians for years to come. It has to be one of the most depressing episodes I ever witnessed in my life.
Krauthammer forgot one other reason to air the O.J. 'Confession.' Money for the Goldman family.
O.J. will forever live in his private hell, but never enough can be done for the rights of victims.
They can't touch his NFL pension, but this kind of blatant commercial pandering is ripe for the taking.
That's a slightly different case. My take on that is that Vince Foster killed himself in the White House, and the Clinton aides (mostly young, very inexperienced -- I met and talked with a few on other matters) panicked. They grabbed Foster's body and drove across the river to Fort Marcy (easy to do at the early hours), planted the body, and left.
If that ever happens, I'm absolutely certain that the killer will get a speedy trial and promptly be thrown in jail.
...you make your points well, but I think you're missing the larger picture, Krauthammer's main point...the jury did not need the evidence to be tainted to reach their verdict...had the blood not been botched, the conclusion would have been the same...and for the same reasons, that OJ was a victim of police malfeasance...
I believe they are in the same group w/ those who believe that 9/11 was a government conspircy.
You make some good points, but I disagree about the interest in true crime stories and trials. These are about the only occasions left when people are able to make judgments and discuss issues of morality.
No argument that the Natalee Holloway story was overdone, for example. but the case hit home because a lot of parents realized that they would have let their daughters go on this trip.
As for O.J., the judge and the prosecutors allowed the proceedings to become the trial of Mark Fuhrman and the LAPD. The jury was subjected to personally intrusive grillings before they were impaneled and then sequestered for an unconscionably long time. When you do this to people, I'm sure they begin to identify with the defendant and resent the legal system.
Letting hime speak and paying him to speak are two entirely different things.
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