Ragnar
2016-06-20 02:32:57 UTC
Did anyone watch these 5 episodes? That is, anyone who contributed to this group before it became a spam-riddled wasteland? I know that Bob August is still out there fighting the good fight. I imagine that Prien is still out there talking about Dreyfus and how 9/11 was a setup because, like everything else, he read a few articles on structural engineering and misinterpreted everything on the page, or at least absorbed only those bits that agreed with his completely idiotic theories. I see also that Dick Wagner's son Dave has kept Dick's site alive, which is a good thing. Dick did a lot of valuable research, and whether or not you agree with him it is absolutely worth a read.
Or, for that matter, anyone who has a genuine interest in the case. It is hard to understand how this case gripped America if you weren't there at the time. We've not seen the like of it since, which is just as well. It was a perfect storm of celebrity, racial inequality, mistrust of the police, cameras in the courtroom, and the sausage-making process that is criminal jurisprudence in America. Set all of that in LA in the aftermath of Rodney King and the riots that followed and you have the OJ Simpson criminal trial.
We learned a lot of uncomfortable truths:
Celebrities ARE treated differently by the legal system
How much money the accused has DOES play a huge role in determining what kind of justice they receive
Cops don't expect anyone to question their work
Cops DO lie
Crime labs can be incompetent
Judges are just as fallible as the rest of us
Prosecutors are sometimes overmatched
Expert witnesses shade their opinions and testimony toward the side that is paying them
Criminal defense attorneys WILL do completely unethical things to get their clients acquitted
Juries CAN be biased - in either direction
But most importantly:
OJ Simpson murdered two people and got away with it.
In Part 4 there were uncensored photos of both Ron and Nicole's neck wounds. Until now we had the infamous photo of Nicole with the black rectangle over her wound. The black box was gone. We saw Ron's neck wound for the first time.
The contrast between the two could not be clearer. Nicole's wound displayed a savagery that only arises from a direct and personal rage. It was complete overkill. Ron's wound (all of them in fact) were clearly the result of a struggle and the need to eliminate a threat. Read anything about criminal profiling and you will understand the significance of Nicole's throat wound.
Only one person had that level of rage against Nicole: not Jason, not Kato, not Fuhrman, not 'Colombian drug dealers', not hit men.
OJ did it.
Or, for that matter, anyone who has a genuine interest in the case. It is hard to understand how this case gripped America if you weren't there at the time. We've not seen the like of it since, which is just as well. It was a perfect storm of celebrity, racial inequality, mistrust of the police, cameras in the courtroom, and the sausage-making process that is criminal jurisprudence in America. Set all of that in LA in the aftermath of Rodney King and the riots that followed and you have the OJ Simpson criminal trial.
We learned a lot of uncomfortable truths:
Celebrities ARE treated differently by the legal system
How much money the accused has DOES play a huge role in determining what kind of justice they receive
Cops don't expect anyone to question their work
Cops DO lie
Crime labs can be incompetent
Judges are just as fallible as the rest of us
Prosecutors are sometimes overmatched
Expert witnesses shade their opinions and testimony toward the side that is paying them
Criminal defense attorneys WILL do completely unethical things to get their clients acquitted
Juries CAN be biased - in either direction
But most importantly:
OJ Simpson murdered two people and got away with it.
In Part 4 there were uncensored photos of both Ron and Nicole's neck wounds. Until now we had the infamous photo of Nicole with the black rectangle over her wound. The black box was gone. We saw Ron's neck wound for the first time.
The contrast between the two could not be clearer. Nicole's wound displayed a savagery that only arises from a direct and personal rage. It was complete overkill. Ron's wound (all of them in fact) were clearly the result of a struggle and the need to eliminate a threat. Read anything about criminal profiling and you will understand the significance of Nicole's throat wound.
Only one person had that level of rage against Nicole: not Jason, not Kato, not Fuhrman, not 'Colombian drug dealers', not hit men.
OJ did it.