HBO To Take a Whack at Lizzie Borden

[Balrog]

^It also helped to have the 19th Century version of the O.J. legal dream team defending you - and the $$$ to pay for it too.

 

[Gepard]

Hmm...

An unknown person took a hatchet
And gave nineteen or twenty smashes
To Lizzie Borden's poor stepmom,
Then gave her father ten and one.
Then Lizzie for the crime was bound,
But certain proof could not be found.
And so a killer did run free,
But Lizzie damn'd by verse would be.

I was going to accuse you of having no sense of humor after your first rebuttal, but this is a nice comeback.

 

[Sector 7]

I have been in that house [long story]. It made the hair on my arms & neck stand straight up!

 

[Christopher]

Hmm...

An unknown person took a hatchet
And gave nineteen or twenty smashes
To Lizzie Borden's poor stepmom,
Then gave her father ten and one.
Then Lizzie for the crime was bound,
But certain proof could not be found.
And so a killer did run free,
But Lizzie damn'd by verse would be.

I was going to accuse you of having no sense of humor after your first rebuttal, but this is a nice comeback.

I always find it rather extreme to accuse someone of having no sense of humor at all just because they don't like a specific attempt at humor. There's no logic to that; it could simply be that the specific joke wasn't funny.

And while I definitely inherited the Bennett sense of humor, I also have a highly developed sense of justice, and I don't think there's anything funny about presuming the guilt of someone who was acquitted in a court of law. The presumption of innocence is absolutely vital to any free and just society. There may always be circumstances where an innocent person can't prove one's innocence, so if the burden were on the defendant, many innocent people would be wrongly condemned. And worse, it would be easy for the state to abuse its authority and persecute people by trumping up charges they couldn't disprove. The presumption of innocence is one of the most essential rights we have, one of the core values that makes America free, and it should never be forgotten or lightly dismissed.

 

[barnaclelapse]

This sounds pretty damn exciting.

 

[ToddPence]

The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "The Older Sister" had its own interesting speculation on the Lizzie Borden affair.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/275/alfred-hitchcock-presents-the-older-sister#x-0,vepisode,1,0