News – CNN is currently reporting, on its broadcasts, that Las Vegas police have arrested OJ Simpson in connection with the armed robbery of two memorabilia dealers, and that up to fourr additional suspects are still being sought. The first arrest, reported yesterday, was of a still-unnamed individual who is charged with two counts of robbery with a dead
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2007-09-17 09:03:30
has anyone else noticed hoe the Goldman family has made a carreer out of hounding OJ, I know they lost a loved one but it's been yrs get a job, a life something. Now they published his book making millions and Ron Goldmans sisted couldn't get to Vegas fast enough and the old man was on the phone instatnly with PMSNBC. Oprah asked them if they would ever get any peace from the book and the basicaly bitch slapped her, no peace just revenge, doesn't long term revenge just eat away at you like rotting flesh.
You try losing your only son to a cold blood murderer who walks away scott free and rubs everyones nose in it for 15 years. It probably isn't as easy as it seems. Me personally, if either of my two boys had been butchered like that, and O.J. walked because of a liberal California jury and racial politics, you would still be wondering where O.J.'s body was at.
Although i understand the sentiment and i personally dislike the behavior of the guy plus other patterns/ books etc that more likely hint to a serious probability ,close to 99% or so that he did indeed kill them both, i cant agree with your position for 2 reasons.
First of all we have to live by the law or there is no end to where this can take us (killing to take revenge lasting generations and including eventually totally innocent people ). This is my disagreement on a civilized level.
Granted if you personally know the guy is for sure guilty (good question how only as a witness you can be thoroughly sure ) there is the emotional father rage that is 100% understandable and although the action is still objectionable is one i would also consider as father of the victim ,clearly in violation of the very law i am now defending.
But there is a second problem with this line of thinking .
The second is that unless you are totally certain (nobody defined to me what beyond reasonable doubt means) and by that i mean 100% not 99% etc you allow yourself to potentially kill an innocent person . If 100 people did that, 1 would kill an innocent man on the average if that probability stood at 99% for example. The ultimate success of a civilized society is proven in the value it places in the life of that 1/100 innocent person.
Even in dna cases one has to thoroughly examine the following probability; Although dna markers by themselves can secure with say 1 in a trillion chance of error the identity of the person involved how do you place value in the probability that police or labs or errors didnt conspire to construct evidence (very rare but real) . Clearly the chance that someone is framed is not less than 1 in a trillion . Even if its only 1 in 10000 it is still enough to question how persuasive that 1 in 1 trillion dna argument is. Ultimate argument against death penalty.
The significant problem one must have with a guy like OJ is that it is his eventual behavior since trial that gradually improves the probability of guilt converging it to 1. A random person that was wrongly accused and then miraculously survived the trial would clearly live the rest of his life trying to prove to the public that he was indeed wrongly blamed . He would also try to be a great father , a decent public figure , probably turn his life around and focus on constructive social benefit work. Instead we have a guy that is abusive to people, party animal , arrogant , vulgar and also eager to write the recently presented by the media book.
Clearly if one was not certain at the trial's end of the guilt this has started to change over time because the probability a decent wrongly accused person would behave that way is low (counterintuitive).
This is in my opinion the ultimate hubris of OJ's life. To first possibly escape justice and then proceed to abuse society in general.
If I were Fred Goldman I would be behaving in a far worse manner and I certainly would have told Oprah to k-ss my ass for her attitude. Bad enough to lose a son to murder but then to have his murderer roaming free living a life of luxury? They probably would find me outside OJ's house with a grenade launcher! And I think Fred still works for Nordstroms, he is not unemployed.
The Goldmans are no better than OJ - they have made a career of Ron's death - Fred said he was publishing the book a retribution - B.S .- it's for the money , if he wanted retribution he would have squelched this egocentric book. All the $$ in the world are not going to raise Ron from his grave, & if Fred was this truly grieving father all the $$ in the world would not console him.
You mean they hounded him into that hotelroom with a gun and 5 thugs ???
I will give you that I have an issue with the dual system, that even though he was found not guilty (not meaning innocent, and what I think doesn't count) we can still hold him liable for a crieme we couldn'y prove he commited. I don't think thats fair BUT It under no circumstances justifies this latest behaviour of his.
I bet court t.v paid him. The only way he can generate publicity now is to commit a crime. People are still yawning from his simple domestic violence and drug abuse ho-hum.
I bet he wants to sell his old book "if I did it." Sad, when the only way you can make money to support your habit is through commiting a crime. But he doesn't care he has a great legal team who can play the race card again. Just as long as he doesn't blame a hispanic he will be fine.
It's so interesting--the tropism for criminality. His. You can't help wondering what it's all about--mighty sports star keeps enacting stuff bound to bring him down (at least, one hopes it will, even if insufficiently so, this time).
There's a huge karmic debt to be paid by Simpson. Let's hope the machinery for that has been set in motion, however slowly it operates.
Well, let's also hope it's not too slow.
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This story will dominate broadcast news outlets for weeks to come.
I can't wait until the trial. OJ's last trial was a circus, but this is Las Vegas, where everything is bigger and better.
I thought what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Only your money stays in Vegas.
And sometimes, your dignity.
not if you are a poker math wizard...
That tape is priceless though. I guess the criminal can evade justice occasionally but he cant evade... well, being a criminal !
Indeed. And OJ may get to stay in Vegas too, permanently. Or at least in Nevada, at the State Prison.
Thats what OJ thought ( I understand actually said)
This is a waste of the courts time. There is nothing here, and the Judge will let the spotlight seeking cop know soon. I understand our hate and contempt for this ass but at the same time the law is the law...you have two men in the same room giving different accounts of what happen, then there is the main victim saying he doesn't want to press charges. He also stated as public record that there were no guns in the room, can you see him changing his words and continue to seem credible to Jurors?
With a lawyer he can walk, with a good lawyer the cop is in trouble.