Nikki X And Her Fans

Since someone is clearly not going to leave me or our favorite ConspiracyNut alone until I cover this, yes, Nikki X did leave a rare blog entry - apparently about one of her own estimable commentors who apparently has been accusing her on a near-daily basis of having been responsible for the death of Kabaka Oba.

Now, whoever this person is, it does somewhat put me in mind of the rantings of Joy Rolland. In previous cable public access appearances, Joy has gone off on what looks like a cordrazine overdose ranting about "assassins" and "murderers".

The basic perception - and this seems to pervade the entire human species at times - is that no matter how open and shut a case you may have, there seems to be a tendency to blame EVERYONE except whoever actually pulled the trigger.

The biggest one of course is the Kennedy assasination. It just doesn't "sit right" for some people that a "punk with a mail order rifle" could have taken out the most powerful man on Earth.

Of late, 9/11 doesn't seem to "sit right" with people. Somehow or another an ACTUAL CONSPIRACY involving HUNDREDS of people and quite possibly several foreign governments and maybe even a major corporation or two leading to two HUGE planes packing major boatloads of fuel crashing at 500 miles/hour into two buildings built WAY before those types of planes were designed isn't enough for some people. No - they are clearly not going to be satisfied until it makes it into the history books that George W. Bush himself was somehow sitting in that classroom in Florida with a tiny little demolition detonator and brought the buildings down himself.

Similarly - people - I know it's been a little while - and I know some of this you wouldn't believe if someone wrote it as a novel, but here goes -

Kabaka Oba ran his mouth. Sometimes too much. Watching Joy Rolland for the last couple of years, yes, I'd have to say there's some possibility that she contributed to that mouth. However, I'm pretty sure she didn't force him at gunpoint onto public access and start running his mouth about having his "sodomite friends" take up light housekeeping with Howard Beatty. Did Kabaka do stuff to p*ss people off to the point of irrationality? You betcha'. Could you say he murdered himself? Nope.

Although obviously provoked, and, from some accounts, being a rather exciteable character, Howard Beatty, to the best of anyone's judgement, was a competent human being who should have known better than to blow ANYONE away across from City Hall, causing the poor mayor to soil himself.

Howard Beatty shot Kabaka.

Kabaka died of the injuries sustained in that shooting several days later.

That's it.

Period.

Howard Beatty killed Kabaka.

Not all these other people.

Now - are all these other people known to do and say way outrageous stuff from time to time?

Oh, you betcha' ...

But do they go around popping people on a daily basis?

I sure haven't read about it ...