Let's Be Fair

I know it's fun to slag on opposing teams and their fans....but let's be fair here.

Absolutely no one has proven that Cam Newton did anything. It drives me mad in today's society that public conviction requires only that one "source" throw out a nasty allegation. The rest takes care of itself.

"Where there's smoke there is fire." Nonsense. Especially when the smoke is concocted by a gutless accuser and there is no proof we're even smelling real smoke. It offends the agreement reality that we've been living in as a country for a couple hundred years. It offends due process and presumed innocence...and it sucks.

Make a hero. Tear down a hero. Just because it's compelling conjecture and there is a 24 hour news cycle to fill in order to keep the masses well fed does not justify taking shots at a person presumed to be innocent.

The "developing story" makes me sick sometimes. This is one of them.

Let's assume we learn that all of this is correct. Fine. Why could we have not just collected all of the info and come forward with it when we've got enough to take the guess work away? In other words..."Cam Newton found guilty of X, Y, or Z".

The sad part is that if we find that he did nothing wrong...we've put him through months of torture in the name of the "public has a right to know". Perhaps it does but we should get ahold of when the public has a right to know.

Approaching it with suspicion and pre-conviction public shame unfairly rips the character of the accused for weeks or months. If and when he's exonerated, it will be a boring blurb scrolling by in the lower third of your screen.... and we'll have already moved on to a new witch hunt.