{"id":1103,"date":"2008-12-05T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2008-12-05T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:36:35","slug":"judge-jury-and-plain-ol-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1103","title":{"rendered":"Judge, Jury, and Plain Ol Stupid!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Judge%2C%20Jury%2C%20and%20Plain%20Ol%20Stupid%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>File Under &#8220;Judge Dreadful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vigilante justice only works in the movies. The Drugde Report provide us with not just one, the obvious one, but two examples of the unintended, but in these cases at least, perfectly predictable consequences of taking the law, or your version of it anyway, into you own hands:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article5292064.ece\">O.J. Simpson.<\/a> So he gets away with murder, but may end up dying in prison for trying to get back some of his trinkets. The irony is not lost here at Sonicfrog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article5292064.ece\">Boy George.<\/a> In the song &#8220;Karma Kamelion&#8221; Boy George sings he&#8217;s a man, without conviction&#8230;. It looks like thats about to end.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want the best chance to walk away from stuff like this, you should get tried in LA.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Blake_(actor)#Arrest_and_trial_for_murder\">Ask Baretta<\/a>. Ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabloidcolumn.com\/phil-spector.html\">Phil Spector<\/a>. And\u00a0 O.J., you of all people, ought to know this.<\/p>\n<p>PS. Woo Hoo!!!  I got <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/im-man-without-conviction.html\">Annalanched<\/a>!!! That&#8217;s the second major blog link. The first was<a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=484\"> Instapundit<\/a>. Now, if I can just get linked to one more major blog, say <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/\">Volokh<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsullivan.com\/\">Sully<\/a>, I will have achieved the Trifecta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Judge%2C%20Jury%2C%20and%20Plain%20Ol%20Stupid%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>File Under &#8220;Judge Dreadful&#8221;. Vigilante justice only works in the movies. The Drugde Report provide us with not just one, the obvious one, but two examples of the unintended, but in these cases at least, perfectly predictable consequences of taking the law, or your version of it anyway, into you own hands: 1. O.J. Simpson. 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