Preface

 

   When O.J. Simpson was sent to prison in December 2008 I was unfamiliar with the functioning of the American judicial system. I thought this trial was uncommon. I thought it was so obviously a mock trial, the crimes being so completely made up, all the witnesses bought with absurd plea-bargains, the judge so shamelessly partial and showing such despise for the law, that Simpson and Stewart would get an appeal straight away and would be free within a few months.

    Almost two and a half years later it became clear that the supreme justices of the state of Nevada would never grant an appeal. One of their main arguments was that Simpson would have said ‘Let nobody  leave the room’ on that tape, which would have implied that he is capable of talking with two voices simultaneously; it illustrates the carelessness and sloppiness with which they make their decisions. In the meantime I have learned that these practices are considered normal in the U.S.A. No country in the world ever had that many people in prison. You can be sure a very large part of them is innocent. It’s a police-state.

 

   Every breakfast I watch the text news on TV to see if O.J. Simpson has died and, by now, I’m disappointed to learn he hasn’t. I see no other way out. I know they are taking his case to the federal level but even if that ends well it will take too much time. American prison conditions are infamous all over the world and every hour Simpson has to live in that hell is one too many. Meanwhile, I’m sure the angels have  finished their preparations for the grandest welcome home party ever and are eagerly awaiting the return of their most popular idol.

 

  All this is not only about O.J. Simpson. American media are controlled by people who have given up on all journalistic standards. The people representing the judicial system make a mockery of the law. “Innocent until proven guilty” is being replaced, as a moral and as a legal principle, by “guilty until proven innocent” or even “guilty because we say so”.

   What Simpson has been and still is the martyr for is not to bring an end to the evil of this world, which is impossible, but to expose it and show what it’s made of. That is what “If I Did It”, the most devastating book I ever read, is about and that is what his tragedy is about. I no longer try to do anything to support him as I don’t know how. My new purpose is to tell the story. I will be grateful to everyone who could help me with new (sources of) information. That is what this movement is now about.

    

                                                                                                                                                Oktober 25, 2011