[Two-Bits]

Will definately look up this book.

When I see the media whether it be TV, Radio, or Print before the trial even begins, to find a person guilty especially when there are more unanswered questions, lies, and circumstances involving the immediate family and their friends. I have to asked myself why. Are people today so ignorant they will believe anything the media states even when it totally goes against common sense and logic? We have seem this during the last ten years, the "Propaganda Machine" at work...... Tell the masses anything and the sheeple will believe it....This scares me more than anything that there are more and more people who do not process what is called common sense to know BS when they hear it. Do I believe an innocent man could be railroaded? You better believe it.

[Jaded]

Well said!!! That IMO is the problem, the further this goes along the more questions are raised. And they are some serious questions. Even alot of the "evidence" against David is thin. Yesterday's computer testimony added more questions, and removed some of the punch of the pedophile story that Dusek is pushing.

Like you, I wonder why the spin is so constant and so hard. The evidence does not stand on it's own merit so there is this firestorm the media created. If you listen to the trial and read the press or RR or Court TV you are often left wondering if you all heard the same trial. NBC doesn't seem to think their reporting is anything but accurate.

[meadsjn]

Are people today so ignorant they will believe anything the media states even when it totally goes against common sense and logic? We have seem this during the last ten years, the "Propaganda Machine" at work...... Tell the masses anything and the sheeple will believe it....This scares me more than anything that there are more and more people who do not process what is called common sense to know BS when they hear it. Do I believe an innocent man could be railroaded? You better believe it.

This is the most important reason that a "high profile" criminal case is everybody's business, regardless how far away, or whether we identify with any of the people involved.

The most scary part of this case, and other publicized cases of recent years, is that our system of justice has been severely damaged by:

• the dumbing-down of the populace (and by extension, the jurors);
• passions enflamed and fed by sensational media;
• double standards applied by investigators, depending on the victim, perpetrators, or situation;
• prosecutors who just want to score a conviction, regardless of guilt or innocence;
• a plethora of agencies and institutions with the common agenda of getting more and more people and money into the system (prisons, jails, therapy, treatment, probation, welfare, AFDC, food stamps, juvenile centers, and hundreds more)
• a common opinion among the statists on the left and the right that it's perfectly acceptable to slaughter, burn, and destroy (economically or physically) anyone, anytime it will further their Orwellian agenda.