From: Jasper
Date: 11/27/00
Time: 11:26:28 PM
Remote Name: 206.141.209.226
I imagine everyone is as absorbed as I am with the goings on in Florida. I don't know what you think about the controversy surrounding the election but one thing should be clear to everyone: The O.J. case may well be the deciding factor in what we DON'T SEE of the arguments before the Supreme Court.
This is an unprecedented event in American history, an event that can set the course for how the United States is governed for the rest of the century. Yet, the Supreme Court is sticking to its policy of keeping the cameras out of its proceedings based on its historic fear of having the process corrupted by attorneys and Justices playing to the camera instead of doing its work. That's horse pucky. You know it. I know it. But if you have tuned into the programs I have tuned into, you have heard the O.J. case cited at least three times as the definitive answer to why the public should not see and hear what a select few reporters are going to see and hear about our future. We're going to get their version of what was said by whom in the context they think it belongs in. We're going to be told what is important and what isn't. We're going to be TOLD to assume the "experts" got it right.
The experts got it wrong in the O.J. case. It is only because we were invited to watch, and listen and decide for ourselves that we know it. I'm going to have much more to say about this on the Firm League board. Right now I'm up to my ears in The Smoking Gun 2 but I'm going to make the time to write about this. I hope to hear from all of you. --Jasper