Assumptions

NOT VERY articulate, not very bright. It is a common assumption that shapes and ruins lives. It is the trial which is produced, when the truth is impeached. It is the story that takes shape when one faulty common assumption follows another.

People who defend their assumptions with determination, zeal and fraud, create Kafka-like tyranny. Under certain circumstances, a single false assumption may blossom to the point where it implicates an entire chain of "experts" .The chain is held fast through the fact that one link has blindly followed another, but it falls apart through the understanding that certain agreements or conclusions reached are unjustifiable. And what is the source of this blind loyalty or erroneous judgement? Call it professional courtesy, call it negligence, call it ignorance, or call it deception. Whatever it is called, as long as it persists, it is corruption.

The charge is not significant. It doesn't really matter because publicity ultimately determines the reaction. Imagine a deliberate, pre-meditated murder, ruled suicide. In the absence of a meticulous investigation, the murder is not only never solved, it is never even reported. It is not the crime. It is the publicity that surrounds it. The question is certainly common enough.

How do you wish to plead?"

Not guilty ."

Now that you have been convicted, is there anything you would like to say. "

This has been a travesty of justice. "

" A travesty of justice? "

The response is categorically dismissed. Why would any person frame another? It doesn't make sense. It is an absurd, indeed a shocking possibility that is seldom, if ever, seriously entertained -yet if we examine the possibility very closely, it is a curious omission. Clearly, the motivation to frame another person is not as unfathomable or as uncommon, as is generally believed.

One of the most frustrating occupational duties imaginable is to bear the responsibility to solve a highly publicized murder mystery. A murder which sparks highly emotional reactions poses a particular problem to people who naturally seek to overcome troublesome frustrations. But what if they cannot? What if the necessary clues do not emerge? What do they do then? How do they relieve their frustrations? The answer is simple. They either accept failure, they engage what appears to be a perpetual search for more clues, or they lie, cheat or do anything it takes, to overcome their frustrations.

The authorities are certainly aware of the relationship between frustrations and personal development. Indeed, in an effort to prove his guilt, they reportedly asked convicted murderer Guy Paul Morin about how he deals with his frustrations. Perhaps, it is time to ask the authorities the very same question, particularly since Guy Paul Morin did not appear to be at all frustrated, prior to being charged with murder.