People cheering for death are a bunch of sickos and lunatics. I am sorry there are so many here.
Well, we're sorry that there are so many of you who think that abominable excuses for human beings suddenly become worthy of respect just because they die.
No wonder people think that racism runs wild on this site. California put up totally incompetent lawyers in the OJ trial. Marcia Clark and Darden were worse than useless. I guess free republic people only believe in a certain legal system. Much like a lynch mob.
I'm really just saying the man does not deserve to be celebrated, even to the slight degree of saying, we're sorry he's dead. I simply see no reason for expressing sorrow for Johnnie Cochran's passing. I agree with you that we should not actually express happiness that he's dead. I wouldn't have even hinted at this, if others hadn't first made what seemed like sorrowful comments about his passing. I would have preferred no discussion at all of this man. But while it's not good to make negative comments about the dead if there's no provocation, I also think it's not good to let inappropriate comments about them pass without a rejoinder.
RE: "People cheering for death are a bunch of sickos and lunatics. I am sorry there are so many here."
This isn't the half of it. Did you happen to see some of the threads after Christopher Reeves died? You'd have thought that he was Hitler by the reactions of some FReepers. That was truly chilling. Try disagreeing with any plank, any sliver of the agenda of some FReepers and not get called an evil sinner who will burn in hell and yada yadda and God hates me....
Listen, I never liked Johnny Cochran. I never liked his race-baiting or penchant for red herrings in the courtroom, and I never liked his association with the O.J. Simpson case (mostly because I believe that Cochran knew that O.J. was probably guilty when he accepted the gig and did it anyway).
But Johnny himself was no murderer, no rapist, no thief. Cochran wasn't a criminal or a dangerous man, and I cannot join in with the ghouls who think that his untimely death today is occassion for popping the cork on the bubbly and dancing around the damn Maypole. And what's this crock equating the black students who cheered upon hearing the O.J verdict with the Muslim fundamentalists who danced in the streets on 9/11? What the Hell is that? The difference is that many black people (including some of my childhood friends and their parents) actually BELIEVED that O.J. was an innocent man framed by racists, while few if any of those Palestinians believed that Bin Laden didn't do it (yet supported the murders anyway out of the hatred in their hearts).
The truth is that while FReepers may be right on the spot on politics 90% of the time, many of them are just as angry and deranged as those socialist dingbat hicks over at DU. Once again proving that while individuals can be/are smart and good-hearted, any large group of people will have it's share of bad, bad apples.