From: Jasper
Date: 1/5/01
Time: 1:19:50 PM
Rovaan,
The operative word is "they." We have to be able to say who "they" are and to show how they relate to the murders and to each other. The idea that it would have taken scores of policeman working in a coordinated way to frame O.J. is how many of O.J.'s supporters believe it was done. It is also one reason most people believe O.J. is guilty.
Part of the idea that many cops were in on that frame-up comes from we hear "they" did and what we saw "they" found on Bundy and Rockingham. But when you start putting names to the cops who found everything and did everyhing that mattered, you get two names. No, not Vannatter an Fuhrman. Fuhrman and his partner Brad Roberts.
I am much more like John than he thinks I am on the issue of grand conspiracies. My tendency is to look upon them with great suspician simplly from the standpoint of effeciency and security. The more fingers in the stew the more likely it is that somebody is going to spill it. To pull off a frame-up that accounts for all of the evidence (not just the blood, the cap, the shoes, the false blood trails, the false timelines, etc.) does not require a conspiracy before the fact that involves a lot of people. It could have been done with one persons. My evidence showes that it was done with five. John's evidence shows that it only took one. So does J. Niel Schulman's. The problem is, they don't agree on who that guy is.
It's normal for police to cover for each other (Rodney King, Ramparts, Malace Green, etc.) and to shade the truth to help the team. But it didn't take that many active cops to frame O.J. Simpson. Two were enough. The rest just had to do their jobs the way they always did, with a little "sweeter" here and a blind eye there to help the cause of "justice."--Jasper