{"id":3213,"date":"2002-09-06T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2002\/09\/06\/i-wish-i-was-catholic-so-id-know-where-to-go-to-get-forgiven\/"},"modified":"2002-09-06T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2002-09-06T22:29:05","slug":"i-wish-i-was-catholic-so-id-know-where-to-go-to-get-forgiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3213","title":{"rendered":"I wish I was Catholic, so I'd know where to go to get forgiven."},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, I remember years ago, the Village Voice<\/em> had an excellent article on how the “wilding” teens who confessed to raping the “central park jogger” hadn’t really confessed. The confessions were a combination of coercion and simple fakes by the cops. I thought the article was pretty convincing. The press rhetoric around the case quickly became filled with that nasty combination of racism and hating-the-young, and I thought that was pretty annoying.<\/p>\n

Even so, I accepted that the accused were guilty. I thnk pretty much everyone did at the time, even leftists like me who should have known better. As someone later said about O.J., it seemed “they framed a guilty man.” Besides, you don’t want to be going on about the cops conspiring to frame a bunch of innocent black teens, because, y’know, that kind of talk makes you look nutty.<\/p>\n

Sisyphus Shrugged<\/a> has the skinny (via the Washington Post<\/a><\/em>), but here’s the short version: DNA tests have proven that the so-called “wilding teens” didn’t rape the central park jogger. They were totally innocent. They were totally framed. And I totally bought into their guilt.<\/p>\n

Is there any chance the cops who framed those kids will see the inside of a prison? I doubt it.<\/p>\n

As Sisyphus says, “I feel frozen right now.”.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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