September 19, 2007- Him Again
Back in the 20th century, there were several
trials that were dubbed "The Trial Of The Century". The first one was
the Scopes trial, or "The Monkey Trial" as the media called it, which
was a trial concerning a teacher teaching the theory of evolution in a
public school in Tennessee, which was against the law in that
state, as well as in many others, so this was a landmark trial over
shit like free speech and what can and cannot be taught in schools and
such, and was thus dubbed "The Trial Of The century". It was a media
circus, and drew famous people into it, namely former Presidential
candidate William Jennings Bryan, who ultimately died from the strain
of the whole thing, and Scopes was found not guilty and schools were
free to teach secular doctrines. As we went on through thge
century, there was another big trial, this one the Lindbergh trial.
This was about the two dudes that kidnapped Charles Lindbergh's baby
and held it for ransom before eventually killing it, and when they were
busted and tried, it was the new "Trial Of The Century."
This one was an even bigger media event that the Scopes trial, so much
so that it led to the barring of cameras from courtrooms because the
news photographers made themselves such a problem during the trial, and
the entire country hung on it all because people were appalled that
these two fuckers kidnapped and killed some celebrity's baby like that
so everyone was watching. Eventually guilty verdicts were handed
down all along, and people were executed for the crimes, and
history books called that one "The Trial Of The Century" for a number
of decades. However, there was still over half the century to go, and
sure enough, a trial came along late in the century that topped them
all and then became known as "The trial Of The Century". It all had to
do with an ex-American football star named OJ Simpson. OJ had been a
popular public figure since his retirement, and seemingly
had it all, fame, lots of money, a good acting career, gigs as a sports
announcer and pitchman for various products, the man seemed to be the
American success story, he even had this foxy young wife that he had
met when she was still a teenager and she had bore him two kids,
everything seemed perfect, but it was far from that. Nicole Simposn
eventualy divorced OJ and then got back together with him and then left
him again, a cycle that went on for years. By 1994, she was essentialy
living her own life, had custody of the two kids, and was on her own,
but OJ would not leave her life and he wanted her back. Things reached
the end in this sad saga in June, 1994 when Nicole Brown Simpson
went out to dinner at a trendy restaurant and forgot her glasses there,
but a dude that worked there named Ronald Goldman knew her and called
her and told her that he'd bring the glasses by. As he was at her house
giving her the glasses, the two of them were attacked by someone
wielding some kind of huge knife or machete or something, no match
against the attacker. The two of them were viciously butchered, Nicole
Simpson had her hea dalmost completely severed, and Ronald Goldman was
hacked to death, and both were left dead in a huge pools of blood until
they were found hours later. Suspicion immediately fell upon OJ
Simpson and the Pigs had plenty to ask him about. They brought
him back from Chicago just (a few short miles from where I sit
right now in fact), and after some questioning, they decided that he
was the main suspect, and asked him to turn himself in. Instead he ran
to his house with many Pigs in tow, and was arfrested there and brought
to the jail, where he sat until his trial started, the last 20th
century trial to be dubbed "The Trial Of The Century".
The media frenzy surrounding OJ's trial was unmatched by
anything in American history, the media attention was intense. The
entire thing was televised live every day, throughout all the endless
months of it. OJ was on TV, the radio, and the papers every day, and
was probably even all over the nascent Internet as well, he was
everywhere. His movies were shown endlessly, every interview he ever
did was repeated over and over again, specials about him
and the trial were an almost everyday affair, it was huge. The trial
was front page news on everyone's mind for months and months, far more
than even stories like Watergate were. What it ended up doing was
polarizing America along racial lines, white people all said that OJ
was guilty and that he should fry, and black people said not so fast,
maybe he did not do it, the whole thing ended up being about race. race
was what ultimately decided the thing, not the evidence, because the LA
Pigs fucked everything up so badly that they could not utiize the
mountains of evidence that they had properly, and OJ's lawyers,
especialy one Johnny Cochran, siezed on that and used it to the fullest
advantage. What he did was to put an LA Pig, Mark Fuhrman, on the
stand, and grill him about racial shit completely unrelated to the OJ
case. LA was still seething at that time from the 1992 riots that
followed the Rodney King Trial, where the LA Pigs were found not
guilty in beating Rodney King, a black dude that they stopped
after a chase, and then proceeded to beat his ass very badly, however,
the beating was captured on videotape, and thus the trial, but when the
LA Pigs were let off, people rioted and many still had not gotten over
it by 1995, when OJ's trial was. So Johnny Cochran put this Fuhrman Pig
on the stand and got him to admit what everyone knows, that many white,
big-city Pigs are racist against blacks. That turned the trial right
around, because from then on, the LA Pigs were on trail, accused of
being racists and they never recovered from that. In 1995, the
jury took only mere hours to reach a verdict, one that said that OJ was
not guilty of anything and could go free, a verdict that many saw
as people's revenge against the LA Pigs over the Rodney King trial. The
verdict just made the polarization surrounding OJ worse, with whites
believeing that a guilty man went free, and blacks believing that
justice was served. OJ said that justice was served (duh) , and that he
was going to devote the rest of his days trying to find out who the
real killer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman was because you
could see that it was not him. Most of America did not believe him, and
the life that OJ went back to after th etrial bore that out. He was
seen golfing at posh country clubs with his high powered buddies and
partying and hanging out with young chicks again, just like he had been
doing before all this went down. His life had not change done
iota it seemed, but America would never be the same again after
that trial. The racial gulf that he opened up never did get to heal
any, as the opinions on whether or not justice was served in 1995 are
still split the same ways they were then. Mostly though, America wanted
OJ Simpson to go the fuck away and leave them alone and go on
with his life. Every so ofter, we heard about him again, like when he
lost a civil suit brought on by the families of the murder victims, and
when he did live Internet shows and latelly, when he waqnted to come
out with a book he had narrated that said how he would have
committed the murders IF he had done them, a move that outraged so many
that the book was pulled before it came out.
Last weekend, OJ Simpson got himself back in the news for
reasons far more serious than the eventual release of his book, the
Goldman and Brown families wanted it to come out so they could get some
of that judgement money that OJ owes them, the dude got himself
mixed up in big crime again. Apparently, there was some sports
memorabilia dealer that had a lot of OJ shit, autographed footballs and
the like, shit that he was selling to collectors just like he sells
memorabilia from countless other sports stars. OJ found out about
this dude and apparently got upset when he saw what the cat was
selling, because he considered some of that shit property that was
stolen from him sometime back. now, no one had ever heard of any kind
of break-in over at OJ's house or anything, and no one knew of anyone
selling hot OJ memorabilia. But this did not stop OJ, because he was
convinced that the shit was stolen from him and was rightly his, so he
decided to do something about it. What he came up with was something
right out of one his old movie roles, he decided that he was going to
set up a "sting" operation like the Pigs do, and set the dude up and
get his shit back from him. So he went and enlsited the help of a
few dudes that he knew from somewhere or another and set this
shit up. He arranged for the memorabilia dealer to meet these cats in a
room at some hotel on the Las vegas strip. When the dude checked in and
later answered the knock on his door, he said that these nasty dudes
barged in waving guns, followed by none other than OJ Simpson himself,
who was demanding the return of his goods. Since the guy had a gun
stuck in his face, he had little choice but to turn the shit over to OJ
and his boys and they gladly accepted it and split the scene, but not
for long. he dealer went to the Las Vegas Pigs and told them that OJ
and his pals did this, and the Piggies wasted little time going after
OJ. However, they had snags along the way asd they tried,
particularly the claim of one of the dealer's associates that was there
that no one stole anything and no one had any guns, so OJ went on his
merry way as usual, playing golf again and standing up at a
friend's wedding this past weekend. The Vegas Pigs were not idle
though, they spent lots and lots of time building a case against OJ,
and a day after the wedding, they announced that they had gone to
OJ's hotel and arrested him without incident. There was no slow speed
chase this time, just footage of OJ being led into the Clark County
Jail in handcuffs, no high drama this time. The Pigs have methodically
been adding charges and arresting others in connection with this case
since they busted OJ,and they have quite an impressive list of charges
against him now. They are talking about armed robbery and kidnapping
among others, and in a place like Vegas, where laws have severe
penalties to them, OJ could now be facing life in prison if convicted
on the serious charges. So it looks like OJ Simpson has once
again thrust himself into the public eye for problems of a legal
variety, and all those memories and characters from back in 1994/95 are
coming out of the woodwork again, even the legendary bum Kato
Kaelin, who was a guest at OJ's house the night of the murders is back
again trying to milk just a few more dollars out of the infamy he got
due to his involvement in the murders, and it is like the 1990's all
over again. OJ is smirking at everyone through his mugshot that
is endlessly shown on TV and the Internet and the debate has
heated right up again with the same people taking the same positions as
back then.
Everyone is either busy lynching or psychoanalyzing OJ
left and right, and the dude is bringing out the same shit that he did
back in the day for better or worse. The main topic is whether or
not he'll be held liable for these alleged crimes, or whether he'll go
free again like he always has. OJ seems to think that he'll beat
this rap, as he smiles in his mug shots, and he's probably right. Even
though Nevada law blows everything out of proportion, these charges
brought against him are nowhere near as serious as the ones from 1994,
that was as serious as you get. Add to that the fact that this
was a seriously fucked up situation, not a meticulously planned and
executed murder, and you have problems for the Pigs there too. There
are so many stories flying around as to what went down in that hotel,
even down to the facts of whether or not that memorabilia rightly
belonged to OJ or who it belonged to, everything is a mess here.
the timing of it all is very suspoect too, because it happened right
when that book that OJ narrated was finally coming out, although
retitled and repackaged by the Goldmans and Browns, it hit bookstores
hours before this fiasco with OJ went down. That could not be a
coincidence, especially when you are talking OJ here. When the
book was first printed, OJ was all for it coming out, because he stood
to make some bread off of it. However, when the lawyers fro the Browns
and Goldmans got involved and made sure that OJ was not going to get
shit for the book, his tune changed and this ridiculous stunt he pulled
was part of that. What he probably wanted to do was to take attention
away from the book because he felt that more people would buy it
now that the Browns and Goldmans had it instead of him, and he wanted
to discredit the whole thing as a result, so he went and did this
crazy bullshit to take attention away from and reduce the
credibilty of the book. He wanted to remind everyone just who wrote
that book, someone that they fucking hate, and he wanted to remind them
why they hate him so much too.The whole thing will probably be found
out to be an elaborately staged hoax that OJ, the alleged victim,
and these other cats pulled off to get OJ some more negative attention.
No matter what,OJ simpson has a way with people, and even
after everythihng that he has been through, he can still charm people
into doing almost anything for him, and he probably did just that
will all these fuckers involved in it too. OJ does not like
having to go to jail and be held with no bail, but he did that before
in 1994/95, so if that is the price he has to pay to pull this
scheme off, so be it to him. He knows that it's just a matter of time
befoire the Pigs uncover this shit too and the whole thing unravels.
He'll probably be convicted on some kind of minor count just because
the Pigs are so pissed off at him and hate him so, but the major shit
probably will not stick due to everyone being in on it all. What will
probably happen is that the other players in this drama will end up
taking the fall for OJ big time, as he certainly planned this as
carefully as he did back in 1994, and wil end up being found guilty of
either nothing or very little. That is why he is smiling in his
mugshot, he has great faith that he'll walk again, and he is probably
right too. Then he'll open the old wounds wide again and
become the same polarizing figure he was then, and everyone will
hope that he'll go the fuck away again, this time for good. However, he
won't, as he never will until the day he finally dies. OJ Simpson has
made a living out of this sort of shit for a long time now, and knows
no other way, so his fucked up saga will always continue in one
way or another for the rest of his life, so everyone had better just et
used to his sorry ass.
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