Thursday, August 26
Rants
I've decided to continue blogging. I have a good 128 meg of memory on my computer now, but it still randomly locks up. Time for a new computer, when I can afford it.
Today, I'm ranting. I'm not linking to anything either. Too damn lazy today.
The Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry, or whatever the hell they're called.
You are God Damned liars!
I've heard all about this medal and that medal, and how he couldn't possibly be where he was at. Time this week debunks everything about the medals. The point about where he was at at what time, I really can't give a shit. Meanwhile, after four years, we still can't seem to have located all the documents that would indicate Shrub didn't go AWOL. For Christ's sake, at least Kerry served in Viet Nam, and didn't do rich boy service in the Air National Guard. Of course, what the hell does this have to do with anything? Absolutely nothing, but the Shrub supporters do seem to love to talk about it.
The Laci Peterson murder trial. What is up with that? Amber Frey is the prosecution's star witness, but what the hell did she have to do with the murder? Did she witness it? No. Did she help in any way? No. Did she even know Laci? No. She was Scott's lover. An obviously easy flooze, who decided to work with the cops to try to catch (entrap?) Scott to confess about murdering Laci? All this testimony might prove that Scott is a liar, maybe even a great liar, but are all liars murderers? The prosecution can't even tell anybody how Laci was murdered. This case has had way to much exposure from the get-go. Gee, it's another woman that's been either kidnapped or murdered! I guess if you are blond and beautiful, you can get national attention, but if you're not at least caucasian and beautiful, forget getting that kind of exposure, you might get regional or state wide exposure. This case has been extremely poorly thought out. I predict that Scott will either be found not guilty (reasonable doubt being the keyword there), or no worse than having a hung jury, possibly split by gender. Guilty just isn't in the cards, even if he is.
The Kobe Bryant rape case. Another botched case, both by the judge, and by the prosecution. The victiim is now going to be suing in a civilian trial, and has threatened to not testify at the criminal trial. I predict another not guilty here as well. Again, too much press exposure, this time because the accused is famous.
I think that it's past time that we started to talk and think about changes in the judicial system. I really don't give a rats ass about the 1st Amendment when it comes to stuff like this. Keeping both the accused and the accuser secret, or at least from publication before and while the trial is going on should take precedence. There's too much trial by media. Witness the Michael Jackson case. There again, I predict a not guilty verdict, but the reality is so warped in that case, it's a very fractured and fractaled crystal ball I'm looking at for that assessment. Once the case is over, that's when the news can report everything. And I do mean everything. Trials should be videotaped and made available for anybody's use once the trial is over. These recordings could not be used as evidence in another court of law. Subtle editing of said works could really warp the context of the taping.
That does it. For now. I'm sure I'll have more later. I may even send some new links up to my link blog. As soon as I figure out which ones need to be sent first. I've got too many lined up to be just sent in one batch. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 8/26/2004 01:37:00 PM
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