Saturday, February 04, 2006

Our justice system is a joke

I for one will never believe that OJ didn't kill his wife. He did it and thats all there is to it. That being said, he was given a trial in accordance with the rules and was aquitted. That should be the end of the story. The man is innocent of the crime in the eyes of the law. So why the fuck should people be able to sue them for a crime that they are supposedly innocent of!? Bonny Bakely was killed by Blake. How the hell a jury could aquit the man is beyond me, but he was indeed aquitted! So why the hell does Bonnys family have a right to sue him for her death? No you can cut it anyway you want. You can say they are not suing to get money for him killing her. They are suing him for contributing to her death. Well if he didn't kill her, in the eyes of the law, then how the hell did he contribute? Because he took her to dinner? Because he left a grown woman unattended in a car to go retrieve his gun and returned to find her dead? They can sue you for that? And someone will give you millions of dollars for it? Fuckin stupid. Money buys you priveledges that normal people don't have. Halle Berry can hit a woman with her SUV, drive away and a few days later receive a call from the LAPD that they want her to come in when she get's the time and make a statement. My friends girlfriend let one of her pals borrow her car. While she had the car the girl evidently came really close to hitting a parked car in a parking lot. I guess proximity is illegal these days. Anyway her friend drove off and returned the car. Later on that evening the dragnet had been cast over the southside of town combing the neighborhoods for this criminal. Tracing the liscense plate numbers. Putting units on the back of the house etc.etc.etc. Anyway. There was a knock at the door and the police told him that they wanted to speak with the driver who hit another car earlier in the day. Well of course they assumed that their friend that had borrowed it had hit a car and never told them. After a quick check of the car however they found no damage of any kind. After seeing the car they supposedly hit, they also found no signs of a collision. Then my friend asked the cop the obvious question. "What is this all about". The cop was pissed at the woman that had brought the charge but didn't appologize to my friend for his stupidity. A good cop or at least a mediocre one would have done a tiny investigation before dragging people out of their homes in the middle of the night on some goose chase. He would have looked at the car that had been hit. Maybe noted the color of paint that was scraped off of the offending vehicle. Hell I learned that off of Scooby Doo! But Halle Berry and other celebritys can hit people, leave the scene of the accident, sober up, and then go into the police station when they get a free minute. Our legal system is a joke because they talk about Liberty and Justice for all. It is to a point. It's just when people have money and fame they can buy a better quality of "justice" and this is where supposedly our legal system shines. We are supposed to be impartial and fair and blind to anything but the law. It's naive to think that way I'm sure but that is how it is set up and that is how it is supposed to run. That is how people describe it when they talk about its virtues. Only thing is that it doesn't function that way. And everyone knows it! Oh well I know for a fact that we all will someday be equal and on the same ground. It's when we die, and for now I'll tolerate the inequality.

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