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.
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”.
Oktober
25, 2011