Eiger
11-16-06, 11:03 AM
Short search revealed nothing and I don't know if you guys heard, so..
Violence is almost never a good thing. The temptation to slap someone in the head, or inflict serious bodily harm - while understandable from time to time - rarely gets you anywhere but arrested, beaten down or killed.
Still, every now and then comes a time when rage trumps everything, when vengeance serves as a reasonable and justifiable emotion.
This brings to mind O.J. Simpson, who is releasing a book called If I Did It and plans a TV interview to discuss it.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not about to advocate killing someone. No one ever should. However, if there was ever an individual who deserved to be vilified, excoriated and, dare I say again, beaten down both physically and emotionally, it's O.J. Simpson.
With gloves that actually fit.
O.J. Simpson is a despicable human being, which is actually being kind because some would say he's officially less than human. Any man who would attempt to profit off the double murder of his ex-wife (Nicole Brown Simpson) and her friend (Ronald Goldman) with such glee, such indifference to a brutal slaying practically everyone believes he committed, does not deserve anyone's understanding or compassion.
Here are the lowlights scheduled for Nov. 27 and 29 at the Fox television channel nearest you:
O.J. stops just shy of admitting he committed the murders.
O.J. tells the way he would have committed the murders if he were responsible for the crimes.
There's nothing in the preliminary reports that denies he'll be smiling throughout the episode.
"It is horribly frustrating and at the same time demoralizing for Fred Goldman and his family," Jonathan Polak, a lawyer representing the Goldmans, told reporters. "Especially when they read about things like this.
"Simpson appears to be attempting to profit not off his football fame, but off the very thing that was so inhuman and that everyone knows he did."
A question to all those folks once seen cheering in L.A.: How do you feel now?
See, as a black person, I happen to know that all those folks cheering Simpson's acquittal in the killings in 1995 were not cheering "the Juice" at all. They were tired of a perceived persecution by the L.A. Police Department, believing that the Mark Fuhrmans of the world were conspicuous symbols of a bigotry that existed inside that department for decades.
It was the first indication that, indeed, justice was about to be served and times would change.
The thing is, no one capitalized off of this more than O.J. Simpson himself.
At some point, matters need to change - with Simpson and anyone in this world remotely like him.
Although I'm of the belief that anyone who's been acquitted in criminal court should not be subsequently thrown into civil court, the fact remains that Simpson did have a $33.5 million judgment against him.
So why are we hearing about a book deal involving If I Did It, scheduled to go on sale Nov. 30? Why are we hearing he'll be paid approximately $3.5 million? Why is Fred Goldman, Ronald's father, claiming Simpson hasn't paid a dime? And that the judgment has climbed to $38 million with interest?
And why are we hearing this while Simpson owns a house estimated to be worth $650,000, his home and NFL pension protected from seizure by a civil lawsuit in Florida?
What kind of message is this: Commit a crime? No worries!
Only in America!
Eventually, the rules are going to have to apply to celebrities just like they do to everyone else. If O.J. Simpson is rightfully deemed too trifling to be employed or allowed to jump over suitcases in Hertz commercials, why is he decent enough for a publisher to provide him with some cash promoting a book on how to commit murder? Or worse, for Fox to be allowed to air a two-part interview with him about the same subject?
At some point, we've got to stop being so duplicitous, so phony. Our capitalistic tendencies need to take a backseat to sheer morals and decency.
If that can't happen, if the human element can't kick in, perhaps it's time to stop dismissing that old adage, "Crime doesn't pay."
Unless, of course, we don't mind exposing ourselves as flagrant liars. Which we would be if O.J. Simpson gets away with this nonsense.
Source - Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/16022639.htm)
Now, I don't condone the murder of women for almost any reason short of genocide..
but while of course you feel revulsion at what he did, doesn't a part of your brain think, "Well, at least you know you can kill a bitch who tears your heart out ruthlessly, OJ did it, and if life isn't exactly pleasant afterwards, neither is it impossible, and you'll still have your soul." As a man, you had to have a little sympathy, even if you never admitted it to anyone. I don't really expect comments.
Violence is almost never a good thing. The temptation to slap someone in the head, or inflict serious bodily harm - while understandable from time to time - rarely gets you anywhere but arrested, beaten down or killed.
Still, every now and then comes a time when rage trumps everything, when vengeance serves as a reasonable and justifiable emotion.
This brings to mind O.J. Simpson, who is releasing a book called If I Did It and plans a TV interview to discuss it.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not about to advocate killing someone. No one ever should. However, if there was ever an individual who deserved to be vilified, excoriated and, dare I say again, beaten down both physically and emotionally, it's O.J. Simpson.
With gloves that actually fit.
O.J. Simpson is a despicable human being, which is actually being kind because some would say he's officially less than human. Any man who would attempt to profit off the double murder of his ex-wife (Nicole Brown Simpson) and her friend (Ronald Goldman) with such glee, such indifference to a brutal slaying practically everyone believes he committed, does not deserve anyone's understanding or compassion.
Here are the lowlights scheduled for Nov. 27 and 29 at the Fox television channel nearest you:
O.J. stops just shy of admitting he committed the murders.
O.J. tells the way he would have committed the murders if he were responsible for the crimes.
There's nothing in the preliminary reports that denies he'll be smiling throughout the episode.
"It is horribly frustrating and at the same time demoralizing for Fred Goldman and his family," Jonathan Polak, a lawyer representing the Goldmans, told reporters. "Especially when they read about things like this.
"Simpson appears to be attempting to profit not off his football fame, but off the very thing that was so inhuman and that everyone knows he did."
A question to all those folks once seen cheering in L.A.: How do you feel now?
See, as a black person, I happen to know that all those folks cheering Simpson's acquittal in the killings in 1995 were not cheering "the Juice" at all. They were tired of a perceived persecution by the L.A. Police Department, believing that the Mark Fuhrmans of the world were conspicuous symbols of a bigotry that existed inside that department for decades.
It was the first indication that, indeed, justice was about to be served and times would change.
The thing is, no one capitalized off of this more than O.J. Simpson himself.
At some point, matters need to change - with Simpson and anyone in this world remotely like him.
Although I'm of the belief that anyone who's been acquitted in criminal court should not be subsequently thrown into civil court, the fact remains that Simpson did have a $33.5 million judgment against him.
So why are we hearing about a book deal involving If I Did It, scheduled to go on sale Nov. 30? Why are we hearing he'll be paid approximately $3.5 million? Why is Fred Goldman, Ronald's father, claiming Simpson hasn't paid a dime? And that the judgment has climbed to $38 million with interest?
And why are we hearing this while Simpson owns a house estimated to be worth $650,000, his home and NFL pension protected from seizure by a civil lawsuit in Florida?
What kind of message is this: Commit a crime? No worries!
Only in America!
Eventually, the rules are going to have to apply to celebrities just like they do to everyone else. If O.J. Simpson is rightfully deemed too trifling to be employed or allowed to jump over suitcases in Hertz commercials, why is he decent enough for a publisher to provide him with some cash promoting a book on how to commit murder? Or worse, for Fox to be allowed to air a two-part interview with him about the same subject?
At some point, we've got to stop being so duplicitous, so phony. Our capitalistic tendencies need to take a backseat to sheer morals and decency.
If that can't happen, if the human element can't kick in, perhaps it's time to stop dismissing that old adage, "Crime doesn't pay."
Unless, of course, we don't mind exposing ourselves as flagrant liars. Which we would be if O.J. Simpson gets away with this nonsense.
Source - Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/16022639.htm)
Now, I don't condone the murder of women for almost any reason short of genocide..
but while of course you feel revulsion at what he did, doesn't a part of your brain think, "Well, at least you know you can kill a bitch who tears your heart out ruthlessly, OJ did it, and if life isn't exactly pleasant afterwards, neither is it impossible, and you'll still have your soul." As a man, you had to have a little sympathy, even if you never admitted it to anyone. I don't really expect comments.