[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.

[Freedom2specul8]

Excellent post!! In the mean time, predictions really are coming true!

[NatureGirl]

the dumbing-down of the populace (and by extension, the jurors);

This is a frightening thought. I asked myself the other day, "Do I know twelve people ("peers") that I would consider level and logical enough, uninfluenced enough by the media to be jurors, if I were ever tried for something?" Heck, I don't know 12 people like that, let alone having to put any faith in twelve yoohoos off the street!

[Two-Bits]

You and I are on the same page. I could not have said it any better!

[It's me]

Are people today so ignorant they will believe anything the media states even when it totally goes against common sense and logic?

Yes.