Al Capone of our times

T.V. News is having a frenzy with the coverage of ex-Football hero O.J. Simpson’s arrest and subsequent release from jail. (It is a welcome change from the unpleasant Gen. Petraeus hearings in the Congress last week). Most people believe that O.J. got away with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and an unlucky waiter who came to ‘see’ her. Now the police have got him again, and this time they mean business. O.J. is charged with ten felonies including armed robbery and kidnapping. He is looking at a jail term of nearly 100 years -- all because he tried to take back some of his sports memorabilia from the people who stole them. It is O.K. in this country to kill a thief who breaks into your house. But it is a big crime if you corner and threaten a thief who stole from you! Just like the gangster Al Capone was locked up in jail until his death for tax evasion, O.J. is going to be jailed for good for being too aggressive in getting his stuff back. There is justice after all!