Those are your ONLY options.
If you think OJ Simpson is innocent... you are either ignorant or crazy. Those are your only two options. Only two! You either are completely unaware of the damning evidence against him... or you have heard all the evidence and you still believe that someone else randomly hacked and slashed two people over 100 times... ALMOST 100 TIMES... almost beheading one of them... and then just stopped killing. Decided murder wasn't for them? Lets just ponder that for a moment... because, when I first heard about it... even as a pre-teen... my first reaction was:
"she was stabbed... 100 times? ooooo, he was mad at her."
The point being, it doesn't take a genius ( though I play one on tv! ) to figure out that this was a crime of passion. Some people want to say maybe he hired someone, but thats as deep as his culpability goes. My question to that would be... who did he hire... Jack the Ripper??? If its not messy and gruesome enough... you get your money back?
"Dont just kill her... cut her throat OFF!" - OJ talking to careless hitman?
That would be the worst hired assassin in the HISTORY of... of... of assassinations! And there was no robbery attempt. Who robs someone with a knife anyway? My question is... lets say that the OJ supporters are right... the "real killer" is still out there... where did he go? He just stopped killing?? Usually you hear of serial killers or what not. If OJ didn't do it... and this guy is still out there... there should be an increasing number of bludgeoned bodies out there piling up! This mystery person just decided to go out this ONE night... randomly picked out two people... stabbed them beyond belief (again, Nicole was almost decapitated) and then decided he was done with the killing? You believe that? Wh-wh-wha- what?!!
"Whew... that was close. This was a little dangerous. Even though Im getting off scot-free because someone else is taking the fall for me! Repeatedly stabbing two people 100 times can be a little crazy. I had better stop! I'm cured! No more killing! NO MORE RANDOM KILLINGS FROM ME!!!"
There is a reason that hired assassins dont operate like this... its called... EVIDENCE. Geeez... this shouldn't be that difficult. Anyone who is going to stab two people to death is going to leave evidence all other the place. This is why hitmen and robbers use these things called... um... guns?
Anyway... what of the evidence? His blood was found at the crime scene. His blood was found stained in the bronco. His blood was found dripping into his house. Her blood was in the Bronco. Her blood was dripped in his home. Ron Goldman's as well. His socks had her blood samples on them. He had no alibi. He failed a polygraph test. There was a blood soaked glove at the crime scene and his house. There were bloody footprints leaving her home that were the imprint of an expensive shoe that he was photographed as wearing before. (This random killer is rich too?) And last but not least... cuts on his hands and wrists. Where did these cuts come from? Hmmm... I mean, the evidence is so damning, it doesn't really need any elaboration... but let me think up an alibi:
"Dude... I was like... totally pruning my roses last night... whoa... those thorns... whew... they're as long as all I dont know what! Brutal! Im telling you... but... I love my garden... so, even though I kept cutting myself... on those thorns... I had to get the job done... just like my football days. I'm a go-getter... ya see... thats why you see my blood... you're use to those... gardner types... who quit... on the roses... remember... I went to USC... I played in the Rose Bowl... so Roses are near and dear to my heart... I always prune at 10pm. Right before I take random trips out of town. Its the best time... pre-photosynthesification... look it up... its a real word. Yeah... so... um... thats.... my alibi... and Im sticking to it. No pun intended. Ooops."
And... for the CRESCENDO: a GUN TO YOUR HEAD in a bronco??? How can you not be guilty after that? They could have arrested him at his home, but because he's RICH they told him he was under arrest ahead of time and agreed on when he would turn himself in (wow, racist cops!) and now we see this guy on the freeway mumbling incoherently with a gun to his head. Am I the only one who remembers seeing that? That is "automatic-guiltification" at that point. If you're in a car with a gun to your head, you have just forfeited your right to a trial! Monopoly time. No-pass-go. Straight to jail. At one point, when they're trying to talk him into throwing the gun out of the window the negotiator says basically, throw it out and noone will get hurt. OJ tells the negotiator:
"im the only one who deserves to get hurt" - OJ in the bronco
Find the taped audio of the Bronco chase and you can hear it yourself. Do the rational need any more proof?
Now, here's the kicker about the race card... OJ Simpson? C'mon. Really. Him? Of all people? Can we think back on pre-murder OJ? When has he been associated with civil rights or social movements or ANYTHING?!!! He wouldn't even COMMENT on race matters! In the 1970's... being a star college player at USC and then the Buffalo Bills, OJ Simpson was one of the first (non-threatening) "amiable" black athletes that could be marketed to white-America. Okay... people want to make it out as if this is militant Jim Brown we're talking about here!!! Who doesn't remember the smiling OJ Simpson running through the airport in a Hertz commercial with happy white people waving at him? In fact... as the most prominent black face of the time period, he was ASKED to get involved in racial issues in the 70's... and he... like athletes who have come after him, CHOSE to avoid the race issue. Its not his deal. He plays football. He's not political. Social causes are not his deal. One of the young founders of the Black Panthers, Huey Newton, openly and explicity criticized OJ Simpson for being a sell-out... and now this irrational rush to support OJ Simpson on the grounds or race? He went to Brentwood and never looked back. Divorced his first (black) wife and married Nicole Brown, who was a waitress in a night-club at the time. I dont get it. Im not criticizing these decisions... he was free to marry who he wanted, and live where he wanted, HOWEVER... this is one of the last people who should try to use "racial prejudice" as a defense. You live in Brentwood, fool. Come on...
Have I even mentioned the book: "If I Did It" ?
This was almost as weird as seeing Michael Jackson with Muslims around screaming racism at the music industry for not promoting his album aggressively enough after a child-molestation case. No... its not racism, maybe its just that... Thriller and Billie Jean were almost 25 years ago! When people think of you now... the first things that come to mind are, Emmanuel Lewis, McCauley Kulkin, Catholic-sized sex abuse scandals, weird boyscout leaders... and... um... a whole bunch... of... *cough* Jesus Juice.
Its not always racism... maybe... its just you. You dont have to support every jackass with brownskin. The only thing this does, is damage the general publics perception of race and prejudice so when there really is an issue where race needs to be examined... people will not be as willing to do so. ( a la The Boy Who Cried Wolf )
There are still wolves out there, and I'd hate to think that when one does attack, noone is listening...