Lagniappe at the Top: I first wrote this Blog Posting on July 18, 2012 but I did not finish it until now.
When I was a child
my father, my brother (when we could find him hiding somewhere in our 1 bedroom house😃) and I spent many nights in the family grocery store
stocking the shelves for the rush of customers that was sure to come the
following day. These memories are still very comfortable and pleasant way back
in my ageing mind’s eye.
While we stocked the
shelves, we had a companion with us. It was our radio. It was always on. We
were entertained by Gangbusters, The Shadow, Fibber McGee and Mollie, The Lone
Ranger, Ozzie & Harriet, The Fat Man, The Life of Riley, The Jack Benny
Show, George Burns & Gracie Allen, etc.
The radio did more
than entertain my small but developing mind. It also educated me about life. It
taught me things like...
Ø The bad guy was always caught.
Ø Dirty words were not necessary to put on a realistic and entertaining show.
Ø Filthy words were not needed to tell jokes to get your audience to fall over laughing (now comedians just say the filthy word without the joke attached and the audience falls over laughing).
Ø Jokes could be told about Italians, Jews and Wives and very few Italians, Jews and Wives got offended or got their feeling hurt and most Italians, Jews and Wives laughed right along with everyone else.
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I learned that the way to get to the Unvarnished Truth was to go to trial in our Great American Judicial System. I just knew that our Courts would somehow find a way to get to the bottom of it all. Truth will out! The truth will make us free.
This was Fantasyland before Walt Disney invented Fantasyland.
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You all can make up your own list of high-profile trials in recent years where we all were certain of the guilt of the defendant.
Some of the more cynical of us probably spent time lamenting the waste of time and money by bringing to trial such an obviously guilty person. Then we were all shocked at the innocent verdict that was handed down.
Did our Judicial System simply not find the truth or was it helped along by those who are paid to find the Technicality?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe at the Bottom: In defense of the defense. I said above, “obviously guilty person” but we who were shocked and surprised by the verdict were not in the courtroom and we did not hear the evidence that was presented. We were fed our Indignation by the Nightly News.
