One man charged along with [O.J. Simpson] said Tuesday that the Las Vegas hotel room dispute seemed like a setup.
Walter Alexander, 46, said Simpson may have been tricked because the memorabilia dealer who tipped him off also recorded everything on tape."It sounds like a setup to me," Alexander told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday.
-- AP, Sept. 19
I didn't catch the GMA interview, but I have to be honest: This sounds plausible to me.
I mean, think about it. This dirtbag Thomas Riccio wires himself up and lures Simpson to the hotel room on the pretext that stolen sports memorabilia are there, along with Simpson's teenage diaries, his misplaced car keys and "that Ray Parker Jr. CD you loaned to Mean Joe Greene in the early Eighties and never got back." Then he forces Simpson to assemble an ad hoc posse of strip-club bouncers and guys who got cut from training camp, he sticks his hand up Simpson's shirt and manipulates his voicebox so it sounds like he's saying "All you guys come with me," and he places a handgun in Simpson's hand or the hand of an accomplice and hypnotizes him into brandishing it threateningly. Then he convinces Simpson he's going to the room -- where, by the way, the door gets a little sticky, so he may need to force it -- to read for a part in a Court TV MOW called "Don't Let Nobody Out The Room: Think You Can Steal My Shit And Get Away With It?", and that the casting director likes to make her picks based on how loudly and repeatedly an actor can shout the title of the project.
You see? It's totally not his fault.
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This is the OJ jury. Welcome to America.
The last time I checked, OJ was found NOT guilty in a court of law by a jury of his peers.
As we in this country offer a presumption of innocence, it would follow that OJ Simpson was innocent all along.
UNLESS, while I wasn’t looking, the rules and principles of justice in America have all been declared Null & Void, by Court TV, Fox News and Rupert Murdock.
The problem I have with Ultra Right, Law and Order folks, is it seems we have surrendered all respect for the law in favor of MOB RULE. In the Case of our present Administration, I would feel this to be glaringly evident.
What seems to have been misplaced is an understanding that anarchy and mob rule and defining the law as we move along, one crisis to the next does NOT make for a civil society. Further, it makes for a HUGE amount of distrust among nations and within the international community.
Let me share something with you.
Let me take your assumption of guilt, as FACT.
Every time you see a would-be criminal getting off on a technicality, or exclusion of evidence wrongfully obtained, it is YOU that are safer. It is YOU who are more protected. It is YOUR rights upheld. It is YOUR life that is spared.
Why?
FOR YOUR PROTECTION.
For the same reasons that we now see every vestige of civil rights, rule of law, standard of privacy, rights of property and international standard of law, violated and abused, trashed and ignored.
To prevent the overthrow of the United States by autocratic RULE.
A DICTATOR.
The standards you propose or see as reasonable, by inference, not only open the door for such a dictatorship, they hand him the KES.
My assertion is simple. OJ is innocent, found so by a jury.
If we, somehow can’t support our system of laws and agree, then the Nation we have built under those laws, is no longer valid.
YOU CHOOSE! Anarchy or THE LAW.
I choose the LAW.
All the best
Knute (Neo-LIB)
As in, stupid.
I know the guy's flat broke now, and you don't make your living smashing into people unless you've got a temper, but you also don't write a book entitled "[if] *I* *DID* *IT*" and expect to spend the rest of your life pocketing royalty checks. If your cranial cavity has anything left inside it at all (which, after all that smashing into people, it probably doesn't), you put two and two together and figure it's just not a good idea.
They'll take your book money, strike a nice bright fire of publicity to make lots more money from it, and in the process stuff you back in jail, this time for good. First down, second down, touchdown, game over.
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But, all in all, there are much more important things to think about, like World War Three starting in just a few weeks, than the misery of an incredibly short-sighted former athlete. And it would behoove us all to remember that.
"Don't be so easily distracted. Don't jump when they tell you to. Use YOUR brain."
I agree. (And I enjoyed your book "Baby Steps.")
**Knute; swoons and falls to the ground, sorely wounded**
Excuse me, Leo you completely avoided my premise.
Diversion of public attentions by the use of contrived and engineered BOGUS Celebrity News stories.
I know OJ was innocent.
You Sir, at best, have but your “nosebleed seat” speculations.
But out of pity, I will respectfully respond.
The glove you make sport was critical.
If you knew even the least bit about the working of leather, you would know that BLOOD does not dry leather, it enlivens it, stretches it. Secondly, a latex hospital, smoothes the hand, constricts the hand, making it easier for a glove to be warn.
He couldn’t even get the glove to the break of his wrist.
And if you think this test was not tried many times by the Defense Team before hand, to be positively sure he could not put on a glove of that SIZE, you are more naïve than your accusations of me or questionings of sanity.
Third; I DO believe OJ was at the crime scene, hence the blood spatters on the inside of his socks, Breaking open his hand when he hit the wall in anger and frustration, outside Kados room, blood in the Bronco, etc.
The Dream Team also knew he was innocent.
The ONLY course of action was to head into court knowing the LAPD and Prosecution would have to frame OJ, and hopefully, JUST hopefully they would SCREW UP.
And they did in record ways.
Their “Rush to Judgment” had locked them into a downward spiral loosing battle of trying to fit all evidence to an innocent man.
They Failed.
Now DR, I will ask you a question.
Who WOULD fit the DNA, wore the SAME but smaller gloves, worried about Blackmail and the loss of assets and what were they doing for the 2 weeks leading up to the murders?
In the meantime, we might do well to focus on NEWS and WORLD EVENTS that threaten our democracy and are tearing out country apart.
All the best
Knute (Neo-LIB)
Right
And every time a Bush Family member has a war,,, half of Hollywood goes nuts, runs around molesting, murdering, raping, bumping into cars, and ALL are eventually proven innocent?
All charges proven false, made up, unsubstantiated, BOGUS, contrived and the Prosecution cases booted out of court.
Do you know how easy it is to find a difficulty in a persons past, that would give an unscrupulous FEW in law enforcement a way to TWEEK your life?
How about 300 phone calls to Marvin Gay’s father in the weeks before his death?
Let’s say I am 100% wrong.
What is the worry for you?
Some reading?
Oh darn, how sinister of me.
I have ruined your life.
READ people READ!
All the best
Knute
Look, do we doubt that Simpson has a temper?
The photos Nicole was blackmailing Simpson with prove this. He face was black and blue. Ever wonder why neither the defense NOR the prosecution used those photos for more than to establish a violent past? If the issue of Blackmail was raised by the prosecutors, it would brand Nicole as a Gold Digger. If the Dream Team, defense even speculated as to the possibility of Blackmail, it would have been turned around as motive.
The only defense Simpson had is that he DID NOT kill his wife, Nicole, and the Prosecution would have to prove otherwise.
They would have to FRAME HIM.
Simpson was USED in 93, the same as NOW!
With this Dog and Pony Show going on now, AS WITH the one in 93, what other events are we NOT to be watching or paying attention to?????
Why SUCK all the media oxygen using a third-rate argument, scuffle and disagreement?
Oh my! GEE?????
Could it be there is ANOTHER BUSH in trouble in Iraq?
Please remember, Bush 41 was trying to get out from under “Slaughter Alley”, the evacuation of Kuwait where thousands were killed needlessly, 3 days after Saddam agreed to withdraw.
What to do now?
Get back on FOCUS, this case is over.
Get back on REAL NEWS!
Simpson will WALK.
Oh and PLEASE listen to Bill Cosby!
Be on your best behaviors, don’t go to wild parties where women are brought in, don’t gamble, have dog fights, don’t follow people you don’t know around and BE GOOD!
AND VOTE!!!
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
All the best
Knute (Neo-LIB)
My favorite part is that you're apparently under the impression that Simpson's arrest for murder was a Bush 41 cover-up. You repeatedly say he was set up in 1993 -- but (a) Clinton was president for almost all of 1993; and FAR more important, (b) Simpson didn't commit his double murder until June 1994. That's 1994.
Wake up.
I am saying that a very consistent, virulent and poisonous FEW contrive, twist, create and seek out incidents and manage access and coverage of events, to facilitate diverting Media and Public attentions and shape opinion and perception while playing to an extreamist BASE and fostering FEAR.
The Cover-up of Slaughter Alley was done by others.
While we were NOT WATCHING!
All the best
Knute (Neo-Lib)