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A Nation On Trial
(18 Nov. '95) #1

Why was the recent trial of O. J. Simpson such an important event? And why did the verdict in this trial stir so much negative, obviously biased and often destructive, emotional fervour in most of the world's mass media?

From the moment he was arrested, to the uneventful freeway "chase", through the long, expensive trial, to the unexpectedly swift jury decision, virtually all the media had tried, convicted, executed and buried Mr. Simpson deep under miles of innuendo, hearsay, rumour, slander, racial slurs, "facts" and fantasy.

That is why the verdict was such a shock to everyone (including some of the defence team). In fact they were so sure the verdict would be "guilty", the prosecution continued to praise the jury's intelligence (until after the announcement), while the State was bringing out the National Guard and other anti-riot paramilitary forces in preparation for the inevitable African peoples' response.

In the wake of that verdict, we must expect major changes in US laws on sequestration and jury selection in line with the restrictive, anti-defendant, pro-state criteria of England and other police states.

Since the US criminal legal system requires that guilt is proved beyond "all reasonable doubt", the jury needed only one item of reasonable doubt to acquit O. J.. But many "doubt generators" were presented to the jury, not only by the defence team but also by the prosecution.

The jury may have based their decision on the great caverns of doubt which were carved through the prosecution's "mountains of evidence" by the defence, instead of the "evidence" created by the media outside of court. Or they may have been simply a group of conscious Africans and sensible non-Africans, recognizing the war and realizing that Global Africa was on trial - again - as we were with Mike Tyson, Winston Silcott, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Steve Biko, Ben Johnson and Diane Modahl, not just O. J. Simpson.

If the situation was reversed, say an African man and woman (Diana Ross?), born in the United States of America, had been killed in her garden, would her husband, a European man in the USA, be accused of their murders? Or would they be written off as just two more drugs-related, gangland slayings with sleazy, sexual undertones? And if the husband was ever charged would he have been tried, convicted, sentenced and executed by the Global European media? Not very likely.

You see, most of the "White" media understand and accept their primary role as weapons in a long-standing global war and try not to miss any opportunity to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy, both in the long and short term. Part of the strategy is to make heroes, superstars and millionaires of African men and women who are willing to deny their African self and wear European masks.

Examples of success, such as O. J. Simpson, Frank Bruno, Michael Jackson, Paul Boateng and Naomi Campbell are held up to the African at the bottom of the dung heap with the message that he, or she too, could "make it" if only they did and were, what was "acceptable", not so ... African.

Occasionally, one of them, or one of the others who managed to "slip through", would be taken out, abused as a representative symbol, to publicly humiliate, rape, castrate and crucify the African nation. To try to convince us that Europeans have the power of life and death over us. But they know that is not true. The truth is that we have the power, and whatever power they seem to have over us is what we allow them to exercise, because we are the power. We are the power.