Orenthal James, your luck has run out
Monday September 17, 2007
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O.J. Simpson is innocent until proven guilty. But I devoutly hope he is found guilty. It is my fond and cherished wish that he will be found guilty, and sentenced to every second he can possibly spend in prison under...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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My first thought, when I heard about the arrest, was that O.J. still thinks, as he always has, that laws and morality apply to others, not to him.
My second thought was that he secretly wants to be punished for the murders.
Unfortunately, I think its the former, not the latter.
Rod, you're not the only one who longs to see him get his comeuppance. Me too. While I know it's God's job to do that and not ours, I can't help but be pleased to see what he does when you give him enough rope to hang himself.
When I first read about this, I thought good god, OJ, are you even capable of getting a (self - censored) CLUE???
I cannot believe that he is that stupid. I cannot believe ANYONE is that stupid. But inexplicably, once again, I am proven wrong.
Too bad Johnny Cochran isn't around to play the race card for him again. Does he have any money to hire a bunch of shmucks to represent him again?
I hope that he spends the rest of his natural life in a desert prison cell. I also hope that some ugly truths about the sports memorabilia industry are made public! I do have the gut feeling that yeah, the items that OJ was trying to steal back were in fact stolen from him, meaning that of course the profit of the sale of those items never was turned over to the Browns or the Goldmans.. as should've been the case in the first place. Whether that would've happened, or not... is purely speculation.
This one is too bizarre for many words but I sort of hope he gets acquitted just to see the look of disbelief on people's faces.
Well...karma I guess. The kind of person who could murder his estranged wife and her friend in the manner described doesn't have normal psychological barriers. It's inevitable that he'll get in trouble again, regardless of the outcome of the original case.
OJ didn't try to rob anyone. Someone else did and that someone else is probably hiding somewhere on a Florida golf course. The Nevada authorities had better release OJ so he can find the real robber.
"Too bad Johnny Cochran isn't around to play the race card for him again. Does he have any money to hire a bunch of shmucks to represent him again?"
I think you can blame foolish prosecutors, who allowed their case to be moved downtown, and then allowed stupid people, who willfully discounted DNA evidence in a pre-CSI world, to be jurors. Hed the case had jurors with a half a brain, OJ would've long been doing his Charles Manson-like jailhouse interviews with Gerry Rivers, uh, Geraldo Rivera.
I think that the jury came up with the right verdict. The police blew this one big time. They may have even framed him.
The socks that were found to have blood on them went through quite a few people before the blood was.....noticed?
The vials containing OJ's blood were missing some blood which the prosecution never did explain?
Those same vials of blood were found to have been taken back to the scene of the crime?
The cop who found the evidence was a racist who had been known to frame a person or two in the past.
And.......the glove didn't fit.
Those are just a few things that stand out in my mind. The DNA expert, while giving testimony, said that something didn't make sense. I wish that I could recall that tidbit.
Anyway, I think that OJ was capable of killing his ex-wife. He, probably, did kill her. But let's not go blaming good defense attorneys for doing their job or jurists for discounting evidence that was so sloppily handled by the police that there was really no other choice but to acquit the man.
As to this story....My first two thoughts were the same as Alicia's.
For some reason, my beloved wife had the channel tuned into Geraldo (I was at work on the computer at the time). GR's excitement level could only be described in terms of arousal. I'm convinced he was so excited that only dogs could hear parts of his presentation.
After an interminable five minutes of paying half attention, I begged my wife to turn the channel.
This story has already been overhyped, and I can expect to hear about it for the next several months. A sensory deprivation chamber is starting to sound really good right now.
Isn't it weird to still be talking about this man?
Watsy is unfortunately right-- the police and the prosecuting attorneys bungled what should have been an open-and-shut case. Let's hope this current case isn't handled as incomptently as his murder trial was.
Al Capone for tax-evasion; OJ Simpson for a memorabilia dispute.
It's all good.
watsy:
There's such a thing as trying to frame a guilty man.
Which is what, at worst, IMHO, Mark Fuhrman did.
Given the overwhelming evidence (much of which, due to prosecutorial incompetence, could not be presented to the jury) of O.J.'s guilt, his devil-may-care behavior -- perhaps literally -- since the verdict strikes me as a distinct sign of sociopathy/psychopathy.
But even the devil gets his due sometimes.
No doubt the slogan for the memorabilia trial will be, "This is all my s--t, so you must acquit!"
Rob, LOL!
"watsy" is right. The case was decided for me when an anti-coagulant used in police labs was detected in blood found at the crime scene.
Self-styled "law and order conservatives" would be wise to remember the words of Sir William Blackstone said: "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
Whatever other wisdom Sir William Blackstone has to offer us, he was wrong on that count. That trope is one of those bits of recieved wisdom that many spout but few think about. No one wants the innocent to be punished... just remember that when the guilty go free, the innocent are punished then, too.
Yep ... that's another of those fine-sounding platitudes that cannot be taken seriously. In general, the more high-minded something sounds, the worse idea it is if taken as a serious guide to practice.
Keep dreaming fellas...OJ will be back in Florida in no time playing golf. LOL.
Why are white people so obssessed with O.J. Simpson?! The black community never paid as much attention even during the trials. THe general feeling in the black community is that if it had been O.J.'s black wife that had been murdered you wouldn't be so up in arms. Get over it!
Didn't you see (Mr. or Mrs. get over it),all the black people outside the courtroom celebrating when the verdict was announced?I'd say they paid attention.Plus we're not obssessed,it was a travesty of justice.Plain,& simple!How can you make it a white or black issue?Two people were slaughtered.SLAUGHTERED.Their families no longer have them.IT'S VERY SAD,don't you agree?
Why are you people so obsessed with OJ? Had his murdered wife not been white, would you still care? I think not. Rod, if you are a true journalist and a Christian, why don't you speak out against the injustices toward the Afican American students in Jena, LA rather stir up OJ mess? Is it that's not important to you, because it will show your people up as dirty and tainted? You people talk negatively about Michael Vick, but it's okay for you to go out and kill a deer, a bear, or what ever and call it sport. When you people do it, it's alright, huh? I think I can see it more clearly now, ummmm, if you are white it's alright & if you are black, stay in the back. African Americans have always been the last, least and the left out simply because of people like you, Rod. You can choose to step up and help to make things better or continue to wallow in this filth of stirring negative emotions.
O.J. Simpson needed someone. Mike Tyson needed someone. They are examples of what happens when others ignore the traits of evil that can manifest in the aura of greatness.
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