Originally Posted by Bill Robinson
A guy gets famous and adored because he can what? Run fast with a football? Acts in a few B movies?
But in his private life he is a wife beater and a bully. Commits two murders. Not just murders. Brutal murders against a couple helpless victims. Imagine the horror of Ron Goldman as he was try to fend off the attack, the fear. He had defensive wounds on his arms and hands.
And we should call it an American Tragedy? The deaths of Ron and Nicole are the tragedy.
Not that it was done by a football player.
It is sad that we put these people on such pedestals.
If the guy had found the cure for aids, or Autism, or developed cold fusion, or a good cheap alternate to oil, I might call it a tragedy....
but someone who got rich and famous for playing football....Naa. .. I'll pass. He was a thug, a bully, a killer, nothing more.


Bill, when I say "American tragedy", I am not talking about how woefully tragic it is for poor OJ- I'm talking about the OJ story. And of course the most tragic part of the story was the murders. I often wonder if the people who are the most outspoken about our need to kill the bad guys would be willing to pull the trigger, drop the pellet or pull the hangman's lever and personally end the lifes of the ones who they consider the scum of the earth. And if they are willing to volunteer to do that, I would be afraid of them because once they decide who the low life vermin is- and that they deserve to die, what next? Are they going to volunteer to round up a whole host of vermin and exterminate them too? This play has been acted out before.

Frankly, I am more afraid of the righteous man with a gun who thinks mankind is fundamentally evil than I am of a man who has done an evil thing out of passion.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein