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Fifteen years!!! OJ was just trying to get his own property back and he didn’t have a gun in his posession…. Just goes to show you how criminal the justice system is.

This reminds me of the scene where OJ comes out of a room with a big knife.

@Wil, After all the hard work OJ put into trying to keep his marriage together he needed a vacation.

Prime example of what happens when you just can’t keep yourself out of the spotlight.

“After all the hard work OJ put into trying to keep his marriage together he needed a vacation.”

Ha! Nice, Rich!

Oj was found not guilty of murder…So you are saying that the justice system doesn’t work because after all, OJ was aquitted of the killings of his ex, and the guy from the restaurant ? I think that he was overcharged for this phoney “robbery”, and “kidnapping” can you imagine someone going to jail for fifteen years for trying to get their own property back?

I have always thought that OJ should have taken his millions, moved away from the US, and kept a low profile

I don’t know the facts of OJ’s latest case so I won’t go down that road. At 60 odd, the man should have looked after his ass better. What I do find curious is how he is somehow a representative of Black people in America. He is OJ, the guy who played great football at some stage, commentated, acted, made a good living, faced a murder trial, etc. I know another Black american, he lives in the DC area, is a father of 2, a husband, a partner in a lawfirm and a harvard graduate, how come he is not a representative of Black people in america?

Wil, I’m not saying that the justice system doesn’t work, I think it works well. You say that he was over charged and that he shouldn’t be punished for trying to get his own property back, but he broke the law and was found guilty for it (just as he was found not guilty of murder) .

OJ’s a big boy, he knows better.

I’m sorry to say, but the justice system is completely corrupt. Ask yourself ; what would happen to you if you were caught drunk driving, and talked back to the police ? Paris Hilton walked away from jail. There are too many laws, so many that that EVERYONE breaks one law or another every day. The traffic laws are a prime example; The law says, you have to rent a piece of paper to own your car (registration), you have to rent another piece of paper to drive your own car (driver’s license), you have to pay to park it in the city, but you can’t leave it in the same spot for more than a limited number of minutes, or park in certain places. Then there is the matter of tickets; you can’t drive too fast or too slow, must use seat belts, can’t use your cell phone, etc…

Yes, OJ was foolish. he should have taken other means, but still he was overcharged for being somewhat aggressive. You could beat a woman (not a white woman, however) with a baseball bat today, and get much less time than OJ got.

All those laws you mentioned I’m ok with. As far as Paris Hilton, I don’t know what you’re referring to, but didn’t OJ walk away from a crime once? Oh wait, that’s right, he’s innocent.

It’s funny how you think that it matters the color of the beaten ladies skin, considering that it was a white woman that OJ hacked up (and a white man to boot). Oh wait, that right, he’s innocent. Or maybe, it wasn’t that OJ was found innocent but that his wife was found not white.

Are you serious when you say that holding and threatening someone at gun point is SOMEWHAT aggressive? Remind me not to make you angry.

Richard, OJ didn’t have a gun in his possession, that is one of the facts that helps you realize how overcharged he was…The Paris Hilton “going to jail” story was all over CNN last year…It’s not that I think it matters what colour a victim is , it is how society in general reacts…By the way my wife is Scottish and Austrian, so I am no racist……Those laws that I mentioned take both money and freedom from people.

I don’t know Wil. I grant that race plays a part in alot of how the justice system operates but that’s not the justice system being unfair or wrong but people taking advantage of a good thing.

I was thinking more about the laws you mentioned and I can see your point to an extent but there’s an element to it that requires the laws. Imagine the chaos if who knows who gets behind the wheel of a car and does whatever they feel like doing because there’s no way to trace them. It would be like the car that came screeching down my street one night slamming into three or four cars before coming to a stop. When it stopped a bunch of kids got out and ran. Who were they? Who knows. They stole the car. So essentially they were in a car with no laws.

Or “Imagine if you will” applying your thoughts about automobile laws to gun laws.

Last, you’ve never come across as racist.

It sounds like we are getting on the same wavelength, which is always a good thing…I know that I have been guilty of hyperbole in expressing ideas, it’s just that I resent the unfair application of the law – I’m sure you do too.