# FREE THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-the-menendez-brothers/16685>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 23, 1999, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-the-menendez-brothers/16685 "1999-08-23T20:41:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-the-menendez-brothers/16685/21 "1999-08-25T01:17:00Z")

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Free Tibet! (shipping and handling charges apply)

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**Author:** ![Jen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@Jen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jen)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-the-menendez-brothers/16685/22 "1999-08-26T01:43:00Z")

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Gene…I may have agreed with you in one particular instance…but this is not one of them…everyone knows that those boys were greed mongers who could not wait for their parents natural deaths to inherit their money, so they sped it along, taking the chance that the public would buy their story of abuse.

They belong where they are…

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**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 1999, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-the-menendez-brothers/16685/23 "1999-08-26T13:53:00Z")

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I agree with the sentiment, but I have to take exception to the “everyone knows” remark. Just because “everyone” accepts that something is true, doesn’t make it so. I believe that the Menendezes are guilty because I paid close attention to the trial while it was going on, not because it’s the general opinion of the public.

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I’m not a warlock. I’m a witch with a Y chromosome.

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**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-the-menendez-brothers/16685/24 "1999-08-31T04:23:00Z")

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Free Willie!

Uh, sorry, Clinton already took care of that one.

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– **Kalél**  
(The Original **EnigmaOne** )  
_Common ¢ for all ages._

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