This makes the jobs of prosecutor and judge very attractive to criminals. Of course a prosecutor who lets the guilty go in order to have innocent people executed is one of the most brutal serial murderers imaginable, and should be treated as such.
What is needed is something like a “special branch” for prosecutors and judges, to investigate their actions, and the rule that when these people don’t keep to the law they can no longer be seen as representing it, and should be seen as ordinary criminals.
It seems to me that the fundamental principles of justice are broken down further en further and one of the reasons is that the media don’t care anymore about what happens in the real world. The rule that a story should be either verified or the source be mentioned is long forgotten. The lies they have been spreading about Mr. Simpson are incredible, about that “car-chase” that was never brought up in court because it never happened, made up “quotations” from an imaginary diary etc. etc., and these things keep coming up… The media have completely given up on the concept of truth, they create a fantasyland inhabited by demons and nobody knows where we really are anymore; that is the end of democracy.
I consider it to be the complete collapse of the judicial system to try people for crime in a civil court, giving up on the most sacred principal of them all: innocent until proved guilty. Of course, 33 million dollar was not meant as compensation, but as punishment, making sure he would be haunted by it for the rest of his life.
Mr. Simpson proved his innocence once more in “If I Did It” but they have no logic and call it a confession.
If only the president would take a peek at those phone records …
This “armed robbery” case was of course a incredible show-trial. Jurors pre-selected so as to make a conviction certain, witnesses carefully instructed as to what lies they should tell.
I think that in America, whenever a black person is the victim of white injustice, people say to easily: racism. Of course other things can be going on and in this case I think what has been happening is mainly witch-hunt; but of course racism enters into it. With racism having become a taboo, but Mr. Simpson being completely free game, one can expect the racists to direct it all against him. “That ape should be locked in a cage” – I can collect thousands of comments like that from the internet within a day.
So I think the similarity between those “frame the negro”-trials that were so popular in the American South in the fifty’s and this case is no coincidence, it’s nostalgia… An all-white jury determined to convict, evidence openly fabricated, only to serve as an excuse for such a conviction, the white judge talking to the defendant like as if he where a naughty schoolboy (didn’t they call them all “boy” back then?) and finally the defendant getting a much more severe sentence for having failed to humiliate himself enough.
Few people think Mr. Clarence Stewart ever did anything wrong, but he serves as a shining example: “This, children, is what happens to you if you make friends with the target of a witch-hunt…”
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