Text 14764, 60 rader
Skriven 2008-04-30 11:42:39 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 14746 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Thought crime...again
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29 Apr 08 07:45, Bob Ackley wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:

 BA> Replying to a message of Carol Shenkenberger to Bob Ackley:

 CS>>
 >>> I think I understand the reason for shipping the people out.  At the
 >>> time I  on Okinawa (1966-71) the island was a US possession, with a
 >>> 'high commissioner' - effectively a governor - overseeing a locally
 >>> elected government.  It was  possible for an American to win in court
 >>> against an Okinawan, no matter what the charge or the facts of the
 >>> case or who was the plaintiff or defendant; and crimes by Okinawans
 >>> against Americans were pursued at best lackadaisically b the local
 >>> gendarmes. I suspect that the situation has improved since the island
 >>> was returned to Japan in about 1973, but I haven't been there since
 >>> so I don't know.

 CS>> It is somewhat better in Japan in a high visibility case, but not
 CS>> exactly 'even'.  Had the wife of one of my sailors had to be shipped
 CS>> home.  She was hit head on by a drink japanese driver who was
 CS>> driving on the wrong side of the road.  She was largely unhurt but
 CS>> he was pretty messed up (no seatbelt).  They had to deport her
 CS>> because the guy's family was going after her in a civil suit for his
 CS>> medical costs.  Insurance wouldnt pay because she wasnt at fault but
 CS>> the courts didnt care.  They gave her 3 days to get out of the
 CS>> country or be jailed for the failure to pay.  I will admit, even the
 CS>> japanese court liason looked mighty embarassed over that one.

 BA> The courts in this country aren't the least bit embarrassed about
 BA> situations like that.

 BA> Both OJ Simpson and Robert Blake were acquitted of murder in a court
 BA> of law.  Yet both were successfully pursued in civil court for
 BA> enormous damages by plaintiffs alleging they were responsible for the
 BA> deaths they were acquitted of causing.

 BA> I happen to think that OJ is guilty as h*ll, but under the law he is
 BA> innocent of the crime and cannot logically be held responsible for
 BA> civil damages.  Obviously that doesn't matter in civil court and that
 BA> is one thing that is wrong with the court system.

What was wrong in the OJ case was that he was tried and judged by his
peers, which is according to law. But the problem was that his 'peers'
were all black and it didn't matter what the evidence showed, he was and
remains innocent in their eyes. In the civil case, there is no such thing
as being judged and tried by your peers, thus the jewish populated jury
sided with the father of the male victim.

 BA> I don't know about Blake, given the circumstances it seems unlikely
 BA> that he actually killed the woman - but he might have hired it out.

Knowing the case, I'd say that he hired it out. Leaving his wife in the
car while he went back to the restaurant to retrieve lost keys was the
setup.

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