O.J. Gives Me Heartburn....

Wow.

So it's all come down to this. Orenthal James Simpson going to jail not for the murders of two people which we all know he did, but for the harlequin-esque robbery he committed in Las Vegas this month. And this after the circus show surrounding his supposedly fictitious book "If I Did It", of which I can't believe that someone actually published and is peddling this filth to the masses. (I won't even get into the morons that I think would buy the book...on tape because obviously retarded cretins like that can't possibly read.)

But wait, it gets better. I have recently found out that because of his loss in the civil suit to the Brown family, all the proceeds of the book go to the family. So the Brown family is making the money off the book that this idiot wrote about his crime.

Am I taking crazy pills?!?!

Is it normal for a family to financially profit off the untimely death of a loved one? Since when has it become that MONEY has substituted for justice? So instead of seeking an eye for an eye, we have come up with a "Civil Suit". Oh yes kids, we don't care to avenge the death of a loved one anymore, nor do we care to fight to get a violent offender off the street to keep them from committing the same or other crimes. No, we just seek to get money. Get paid, as it were. Because after all, doesn't the money make you feel better, assuage your grief, quell your tears? I mean, getting enough money will bring the loved one back from the dead, no?

So there we had it, the Brown family all broken up on camera, shrieking and crying over the slaying of their beloved Nicole. They vowed to make O.J. pay for his crime. And pay he is. Not with his time and freedom spent behind bars, but with money. And it seems to me a little too convenient that since he was broke after paying Johnny Cochran all his legal fees, he would hatch a scheme to make money the only way he knew how: sensationally. And then the vultures swooped in....the Browns, as we call them.

Now, I am not fooled in the least about this situation. This is not a story of an "American" tragedy, and we should pour our hearts out to the grieving families. Oh no. This is the story of lust and greed. Lust on the part of O.J.'s jealousy of his former wife dating around, and the greed of the Brown family in which they dumped the memory of Nicole for money. And shamefully don't even care that the money they are getting is off of peddled smut, fashioned from the blood and bones of the slain daughter and sister they once had. No, as long as they get what they deserve...

It's enough to make me bang my head on the desk. Again.

So what next? Will O.J. somehow, superhumanly rise above the law yet once again? Will he somehow be set free to once again commit other crimes--old as that mofo is--until we realise what a low-brow, oafish, criminally insane dolt he really is? Or will his charges stick? Will he go to jail and serve a sentence behind bars with all the other dregs of society? In light of my experience in this lifetime, fools usually slip through the snares of life that the rest of us seem to catch ourselves in.