Unless I missed a press release or TV spot in the last 6 hours, Bill Cosby has not YET said one word about any of the incidents or allegations of the women that have said he
a. raped (?)
b. assaulted (?)
c. drugged (?).................them.
Call me wrong if I missed the mark, please.
I have thought long and hard about Cosby and this situation. You (and I) can spin this any which way to come up with whatever one is disposed with.
Here's my take. Remember the movie " Anne of a thousand Days"? Remember the King accusing Sir Thomas Moore of everything under the Sun including treason? What was Moore's strategy against the King's Court?
Silence. Under the King's own law, silence was deemed a lack of guilt and presumption of innocense.
Moore remained silent under the onslaught of a dozen of phoney witnesses the King drummed up against Sir Thomas. The finger verdict was foretold - Guilty.
Then, and only then, Sir Thomas unloaded on the King, discharging his mind fully on the King's wrong doing within the kingdom. SILENCE is not to be judged a position of guilt, under English law, it is the presumption of innocense, if and until positive proof that is to say PROOF is presented in court against the defendant.
Cosby has cloaked himself in silence as his right. I don't know if he did it or not, and neither does anyone else. That has yet to be proven.
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