Bill Cosby

I don’t know if Bill Cosby is guilty of rape or not. I know and you know he has been accused of this crime for many years. The case has been engaged over the years by the criminal justice system and found lacking in evidence. Yet voices still cry out.

I still don’t know if Bill Cosby is guilty as charged. The fact remains that no actual, formal charges are active in the criminal justice system. No prosecutor’s office is pursuing the case. No court action has been entered to the system. The case does not exist. It is nowhere.

And thus, in our American system of justice, a crime has not been recognized as committed. There is no known victim. There is no known criminal. There is no known guilty person.

Enough. Rather than trying Mr. Cosby in the court of public opinion which has often, almost always, been proven wrong, Mr. Cosby should be held innocent of all charges.

I don’t know the truth. You don’t either. Evidently the parties who feel wronged have no way of proving their allegations. It is time for them to be silent, or failing that, for us to stop listening.

And the media needs to learn the same lesson.

November 25, 2014