He was acquitted of three felony charges including rape. No one is ever found innocent of the charges. Is that fair? Is it correct to claim anyone on trial cannot be found innocent? Yes, the claim is correct but the conclusion, the part that no one is ever innocent is very troubling. If Bill Cosby who was tried by all of the force available by the government and by the considered judgement of twelve jurors who thought, deliberated and argued for a week merely acquitted him but did not find him innocent, what is wrong with this system?
Bill Cosby had a wonderful reputation partly because he seemed to be trying to tell people what was wrong with some of the criminal behaviors they seemed to have accepted or which they blamed on white people. He gave his famous “Pound Cake Speech”: — “People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! And then we all run out and are outraged, ‘The cops shouldn’t have shot him.’ What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?”
His good intentions boomeranged on him when Judge Eduardo C. Robreno as an example of Cosby’s role as “public moralist”, unsealed court records to reveal Cosby’s admissions of infidelity and his giving of drugs (Quaaludes) to women prior to having sexual intercourse with them. Robreno referenced a Wikipedia page in his decision and wrote that, by volunteering to the public “his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education, and crime”, Cosby had “narrowed the zone of privacy that he is entitled to claim”.
The American Constitution had to be changed because it did not protect the privacy of the individual. The Fourth Amendment had to be approved before the Constitution was fully approved. that established privacy as an individual Right then removed it as a Right in the same paragraph within which it defined it. You have a Right to privacy but a judge can remove it which means it’s a privilege granted by the government, not a Right.
That means no priest, Rabbi or Imam has a Right to Privacy since they are all about morals. That’ shows how wrong the government can be because every priest, Rabbi and Imam should be but isn’t protected by the Fourth Amendment. Neither are you.
You can go to sleep knowing you live in a culture, the most moral on earth because of it’s protection of your Individual Rights which when it comes right down to it won’t be protected at all. Bill Cosby will never be innocent of the charges he was found not to have committed. You should worry about that.
So far as Cosby was concerned, the DA did a lousy job of proving Cosby raped Andrea Constand, the single witness used by the DA to prove Cosby raped her and perhaps as many as 99 other women. the count of the alleged victims may be higher or lower. There’s no way to know the exact or precise number and it may be zero but at this moment, Bill Cosby has not been convicted of one.
Another element; Bill Cosby is a wealthy man. He is alleged to be worth $400 million and that makes him a big fat target.
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce indicated it would refuse calls to have Bill Cosby’s star removed from the “Walk of Fame.” And the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art indicated it would go ahead with its exhibit of art owned by Bill Cosby and his wife, Camilla.
After much criticism, though, the museum told NPR that it would post a sign next to the exhibit, reminding people that it is “fundamentally about the artworks and the artists who created them, not Mr. Cosby.”
Update: July 15, 2015, 2:45pm: President Barack Obama responded to calls from members of Congress to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom that Bill Cosby was awarded in 2002. He said that revoking the honor is impossible, as there is no procedure in place for doing so. He then took the opportunity to speak about rape.
“I’ll say this. If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that’s rape. And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape.”
So now ex-president Obama got it both ways. He didn’t condemn his awarding the medal to Cosby and in the same speech talked about not tolerating rape.
Bill Cosby is a victim of losing his reputation because he was acquited of the charges brought against him. OTOH, where there’s smoke and maybe 100 accusers they may be fire. At the end of this it’s up to you to decide who is or are the victims. One of them may be you.
After much criticism, though, the museum told NPR that it would post a sign next to the exhibit, reminding people that it is “fundamentally about the artworks and the artists who created them, not Mr. Cosby.”
Update: July 15, 2015, 2:45pm: President Barack Obama responded to calls from members of Congress to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom that Bill Cosby was awarded in 2002. He said that revoking the honor is impossible, as there is no procedure in place for doing so. He then took the opportunity to speak about rape.
“I’ll say this. If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that’s rape. And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape.”
So now ex-president Obama got it both ways. He didn’t condemn his awarding the medal to Cosby and in the same speech talked about not tolerating rape.
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