I can't hold it in any longer. There has to be an outlet for what's been bottled up too long. I've waited and waited to liberate the words. The waiting required some discipline and strength, but now that I have the facts, the need to withhold judgment is past. I kept an open mind, keeping suspicions carefully labeled as suspicions, and treating contrary opinions as possible. But now, there's no more I can learn than the truth, so I must engage and I must submit to it. It compels me to share, to address the fence-sitters in my audience to choose a side--the one the truth is on. The one I'm on. There's a reason we have Grand Juries. It's a system that evolved over time. It doesn't guarantee that mistakes don't happen or that rigging the game doesn't occur. But it does offer some structural guarantee that a filter passes between law enforcement and the judicial system. It empowers ordinary citizens to review evidence and decide if ch
