From: Jasper
Date: November 19, 2005
Time: 02:06 PM
Solitairea1, ...The Constitutional protection against double jeopardy applies only when a defendant’s life or liberty is at stake. The irony here is that the only real instances of double jeopardy in the United States involve organized hate crimes in which white defendants were acquitted on state charges and tried again on federal charges for civil rights violations. ………Attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center pioneered the use of lawsuits to bypass Mississippi courts in attacking the Ku Klux Klan http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/inside/archive/01_03_08/00.upfront.html . The idea was to spotlight violent Klan activity and cripple the organization so badly financially that it would not be able to function effectively. Bad PR and no money = political impotence. ……….What you see in the civil suits brought against Simpson, Jackson and Blake are political maneuvers based on the federal legal justice philosophy in specific civil rights cases and the legal tactics of the SPLC to undermine the KKK. California lawyers have simply found a way to make money off of those precedents. The formula is simple: Take a sensational case that the media and popular opinion have decided against the defendant and bring a highly publicized lawsuit against him in the name of justice. ………All of this brings me back to the biggest beef I have with O.J. He has no interest in the political implications of what the media and the legal system did to him. He thinks his case is only about him. He thinks Michael Jackson’s case and the Robert Blake case are only about them. He has no sense of history or sense of responsibility for the history that was made and will be made because of HIS case. To learn anything from history you have to get it right. THAT’S what makes his case important. That’s why we’re here. Where is O.J.? –Jasper