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It's reassuring that the best parodies and commentary on the
US criminal system come from the inside. The country is in so many ways so very insular that it's very easy to understand the highly miscontrued accusations that one has to on occasion try to counter. I'm not talking Middle-Eastern extremists, or German hippies or Australian self-righteous wombats hit once-too-often by their own boomerangs. I'm thinking more of the friends and relatives with whom my wife and I have had to entertain one-sided debates in Slovenia. They are, after all, Slovenian and consequently very quick to appreciate their own side of an argument and to theorise without practical input (imagine a world where everyone is your mechanic). Those of them that have lived and travelled abroad extensively have a much more centered opinion, thank goodness, otherwise I'd have myself checked out in case I had too much Slovo in me.
I've often pointed out the tendency of America as a whole to be represented by its component parts right down to the individual. Concentrating on the self-centeredness of the country you could draw parallels all over the place, but it's probably best to use Tom Cruise as an example. It's probably even fair to comment that America won't come out of the closet, but though I'm sure that's true, I'm not quite sure what it might mean. But that's a different point to the one I want to make. The Jon-Benet Ramsey police have taken a beating over time for their incompetence and bias. Traits that scale rather well. The whole country isn't like that of course, but it's no fun picking on the good and running with that now, is it? Monkeymeat and Schadenfreude, that's what's easiest to run with.
I moved to Denver just before the Jon Benet murder (I assume it wasn't an accident, or suicide, given the cracked skull and garotting) and boy was it big news then. It has featured in the three main critical appraisers of American evolution, The Simpsons,
Southpark, and The Daily Show (who just last week, of course, created a segment on the
insanity of the media coverage of John Karr's extradition to the US). The poor Ramsey police must feel like confused children right now: "Can't we do anything right? I hate you! I wish I'd never been born!".
I'm inclined to ask the same question: Can't you do anything right?
For Christ's sake, this freeloader loon doesn't even look like a real crook - he's obviously perfected that evil face from too many shit hollywood films.
Did you realise that the only entry for "todgeslap" on google once pointed to Skankmeister Flash's inimitable
Frosties? I'll dig out the screenshot and post it later.
