To: FITZ
OK, let me rephrase it:
If I post, "It's night time out where I am," then it's a statement. It may or may not be true. In this case, it is.
"Again ---- what about those people who claim OJ Simpson harmed or wished to harm Nicole? He was proven innocent by the jury."
Issues:
1. The jury didn't "prove him innocent." They simply refused to convict.
2. The civil suit found that the preponderance of the evidence pointed to OJ as the killer.
3. He is, by nature of his celebrity on the gridiron and appearing in really awful movies, a public person.
1,380 posted on
10/24/2003 7:39:44 PM PDT by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: Poohbah
If I post, "It's night time out where I am," then it's a statement. It may or may not be true. In this case, it is. And that's my point. Facts aren't always facts. Somethings ---- like the world being round weren't "facts" at one time in history and people were persecuted for claiming the world was round. And to an existentialist ---- there are no facts at all --- all reality is only in your own mind. Someone could sue for slander or libel ---- but in reality they did exactly what they were accused of doing --- I'm sure that's been done.
1,429 posted on
10/24/2003 8:07:23 PM PDT by
FITZ
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