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From: Jasper
Date: 6/14/03
Time: 6:21:15 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.196.27
I downloaded John Junot’s web page so I can study it offline.
Despite frequent appearances to the contrary (I think he reacts too quickly – speed kills) I know that John can be a very thoughtful and reasonable person. It always eluded me why he went though elaborate mental contortions at times until I reread his comment about race. This is what he says….
Generally speaking, public belief about the Simspon/Goldman murders is EITHER that OJ did it (and probably had help to get rid of some of the evidence)OR that there was a police conspiracy to frame OJ, and the the rue murderer is either unknown and unknowable or connected to the police conspiracy.
[The only two exception I know of to theses two beliefs are Dick Wagner and myself.]
Both beliefs are wrong because they are derived from mythical "evidence".
The first -- held predominatly by the White community -- is derived from witnessing the Bronco chase and Johnny Cochran's "playing the race card" in his summation to the criminal trial jury. That latter, in turn, lead to the myth that the criminal trial jury, in an acto of reverse-racism, "nullified" the evidence and consciously let a guilty man go free.
The second myth -- held predominantly by the Black community -- is derived primarily from the sensational tapes of Fuhrman repeatedly using the word "nigger" after declaring that he hadn't used the word for over ten years.
Now, BOTH myths have one thing in common: in trying to create a theory of the crime DERIVED FROM either myth, people have created theories that have the hypothetical perpetrators doing things that are impossible, inconsistent with the true evidence, opposed to their interests under the cimcumstances of the time theorized, or all of the above.
This is what you getwhen you try to force what you want to be true into what is.
You seem to be suggesting that bad things people say about Fuhrman are motivated by his use of a bad word on audiotape. Is that right? –Jasper