Are the Goldmans Trying to Profit of off O.J. Simpson's Book If I Did It?

O.J. Simpson is a name that history would do well to obliterate from its annals. Regardless of where one stands on the guilt or innocence pendulum that hasn't swung toward the latter since his acquittal, his very existence has wreaked havoc from the day the white Bronco sped down the highway.

The entire country has been victimized by this case and the fall-out. Television was corrupted with the abysmal court proceedings, the Goldmans and the Browns have waged war with the American public as well as O.J., defying anyone to attempt to achieve peace while they drudge on in their misery, and O.J. himself has the audacity to show his face, heckle the survivors of the dead and perpetrate such garbage as releasing a book explaining how he might have done it if he had been so inclined.

Although the families of the victims fought the release of the book entitled If I Did It, the Goldmans, who were awarded the book rights, decided to publish it. What on earth, or below it, would possess the Goldman family to release the asinine book touted by some as a confession, but that amounts to nothing more than a debauched game? That is simple: money.

The Goldmans argue that publishing O.J.'s book allows them to turn Simpson's own words against him. It is impossible that publishing virtually the same words could have any such affect. Although the Goldmans are adamant that the manuscript is his confession, the truth is that the book is not and will never be a confession in the mind of anyone who has not already determined that he is guilty. The inescapable conjecture that Simpson asserts is the wrench in their spoke that will not disappear just because the Goldmans disregard it. Rather than turning O.J.'s words on him, they do nothing different from what Simpson himself did, except alter the book title and add their own chapters, perhaps confessing on O.J.'s behalf.