Saturday, July 9, 2011
Hey, I Love Kids, Too, But, Come On!
Bill O'Reilly recently (in one of his talking points memos) referred to the acquittal of Casey Anthony as "a dark day in American history". Dark day in American history? 9/11 - THAT was a dark day in American history. Pearl Harbor was a dark day in American history. Hurricane Katrina was a dark day in American history. The assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, RFK, and MLK were dark days in American history. Every single day that we were bogged down in Vietnam was a dark day in American history. Antietam was a dark day in American history. The day that the stock market crashed in 1929 was a dark day in American history. The two San Francisco earthquakes were dark days in American history. The Exxon-Valdez and BP oil spills were dark days in American history. The Timothy McVeigh/Oklahoma City bombing was a dark day in American history. The day that the Dred Scott decision went down was a dark day in American history. The Bay of Pigs was a dark day in American history. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was a dark day in American history................................................................................................The Casey Anthony verdict?...I don't know. I mean, yeah, it was a disappointment and maybe even a miscarriage of justice. But a dark day in American history? I think that Mr. O'Reilly should probably save a little bit of that outrage for the next "trial of the century".
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The bigger question is what will be the "next trial of the century?" The news channels need something to justify their existence.
I heard Casey Anthony was found not guilty, so I doubt she thinks it was a "dark day". She's probably glad to not have to go back to prison.
She was found guilty of several counts of lying, and given a several year sentence for that. COINCIDENTLY the sentence she received was EXACTLY the amount of time she's already been in prison. I wonder if it worked out neatly like that so she couldn't sue.
I'll admit it, guys. I got kind of addicted to this stupid trial, too. But I also found it somewhat disconcerting that legitimate journalists like John King and Anderson Cooper were devoting some valuable on-air minutes to it. I mean, it's not like there wasn't other, more important, stuff going on at the time.
It is better if a few guilty people get off instead of innocent people being convicted. That is the way our system of justice is designed to work. You must be proven guilty, not proven innocent.
I agree with that, Jerry. But in this case, the woman made 84 searches for chloroform, numerous others for neck-breaking and other crap. They detected chloroform in her trunk and also found one of the child's hairs there. She didn't report the child missing for 31 days and only did it at all because the mother pressured her. She came up with this bogus "the nanny kidnapped her" nonsense and only changed it to "my father did it, and, oh, by the way, he molested me, too" when that didn't work. She had numerous jail conversations with her family and we are led to believe that her and the father were acting throughout all of them. I mean, come on, the frigging chick did it.
And, in this case, the jury heard the evidence and decided that it was not sufficient to prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. She may very well be guilty, but the burden of proof is on the prosecution...where it should be.
I respect the jury vote. I just don't happen to agree with it.
Will: I respect the jury vote. I just don't happen to agree with it.
Mitch McConnell does not respect the Casey Anthony jury decision. He thinks the jury trial system in the US should be abolished and replaced with a system where one Republican judge hears the evidence and then sentences you to death... or life behind bars in a corporate-owned prison (Democrat judges can't be trusted because they're activists who legislate from the bench).
(Actually Mitch McConnell did not say these words precisely. This is just my interpretation of what he meant with his remarks on the Casey Anthony trial).
The key is jury selection. We need to get far more intelligent people to serve.
Moderates question the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with them.
Totally false. I disagree with George Will on a lot of things and with Bill Clinton on others. Both of them are really smart and would in fact make superior jurors. Ditto, Larry Kudlow and Robert Reich.
Totally false = Partially true.
I would argue that this verdict was neither a miscarriage of justice nor even a disappointment. We pride ourselves on providing due process and ensuring a high burden of proof on the state.
The state did not meet its burden of proof, and therefore the defendant was acquitted. Plain and simple.
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