here not too long ago, i stumbled across this entry in this journal http://www.journalscape.com/Calhoun_County_WV/2006-08-21-22:07

she asked what people thought of the case. i said he was a crack pot, and someone who first of all, wanted out of bangkok because spending life in a cushy american prison would beat doing time there. i said, the facts didn't add up, there were too many inconsistencies and you could tell the guy was so not in touch with reality. he was obsessed with several child murder cases, and because he didn't have the testicular fortitude to do anything like that himself, he wanted his fifteen minutes of fame to revel in his fantasy.

she answered back that he could buy his way out of prison in bangkok (which i've been told from other sources, he could only do if he had trump/gates/or even ramsey type of money)

she argued that he would surely be killed in an american prison, but i'm sure he didn't think of that, and besides, taking it up the ass everyday would still be a picnic compared to bangkok, and i'm sure that initially, they won't place him in general population.

besides that, he didn't even have the money to get back to the u.s. that's why he confessed in the first place, so buying his way out of prison there wasn't even an option. after all, his confession got him first class passage, with champagne, back to the u.s. on taxpayer dollars.

while i conceded to some of her points, i said the proof would be in the dna results.

when i went back today to see what she had to say since the dna had cleared him (because she was convinced he was involved in some way, she'd been following it, providing timelines and waived extradition information) all those posts are deleted and none of her posts allow comments anymore.

her attitude is one of the problems with this country (one of many many many, and it's even worse in her case because she's a member of the media--and yeah, i'll say it, albeit a member of the illiterate west viginia media---i've read their posts)...which is, NO ONE is innocent until proven guilty. i think our invasion of iraq is proof enough of that. that is one of the "illusions of freedom" that we continually perpetuate (like our "freedom of choice" in elections) and if you have enough money to get a good lawyer, (o.j. robert blake)you too can buy your way out of an american prison.

and all those people who hopped on this karr bandwagon, having him crucified and flayed before the facts were in, should be ashamed of themselves. let's hope they never find themselves accused of something they didn't do because there are so many cases where people go to prison solely on circumstantial evidence and many more cases where newly discovered dna evidence can't even free a person, mostly due to the fact that district attorneys (and police) don't want the embarrassment of admitting they're wrong. fuck justice, their reputation is more important. hey, we're a nation of "me, me, me's"

karr should consider himself lucky, because there was a case several years ago where the police baggered three guys for hours and hours and hours (something like sixteen or seventeen, giving them sodas and then refusing them bathroom breaks) until the two of the three confessed. there was absolutely no physical evidence matched, only their confessions. several years later, when a guy, already in jail for another similar crime, did confess to that murder, and physical evidence matched him, they're are still in prison and to this day still fighting to get out.

God Bless America, land of the "FREE" where even our president advocates, "Shoot first and ask questions later." and who just the other day said the best he could offer us nothing more than "low expectations."