“I am not innocent.” The child porno fugitive declared, as a scrum of Bangkok police escorted John Mark Carr through a gauntlet of rabid reporters. He was declared guilty, guilty guilty by many US talking heads and his arrest sparked a myth that the most recent changes in the Visa on Arrival laws resulted from the lost of face the nation from the spotlight brought to bear by the western Media.

Aside from his confession, he also told the Press that he was saving money for a sex change operation. Transvestite murderer? Bangkok? Fugitive from justice?

More frenzy.

Homeland security officers flew the teacher business class to the USA. Shrimp and wine for the fugitive. Guess Osama Bin Laden would get first-class, if they could find him.

More outrage from the TV commentators.

Especially from the helmet-headed harpy of CNN, Nancy Grace. She assumed the USA had traded its law code to that of France, where you are presumed guilty until proving yourself innocent, and called for his blood with a whining intensity. I’m happy to announce she makes it into the 50 most unsexy women list, but she is dangerous. A woman shot herself after an interview. Nancy Grace says she’s only doing her job.

With a hatchet, but she isn’t the only one.

The prosecutor for the Ramsey murder thought she had her man.

Wrong. 

His DNA didn’t match any samples taken from the murder scene.

His family said John Mark Carr spent Christmas with them.

He was released to be be extradite to California for prosecution of child porno charges. Yesterday the Sonoma Supreme Court ordered the DA to drop charges, since the fugitive’s computer on which kiddie sex was reputedly stored, had gone missing, but also they could not confirm that John Mark Carr had ever used the computer in the year before his ex-wife informed on him in 2001. 

Free.

After all that free.

He even made the cover of Time. 

Famous for fifteen minutes.

Maybe he’ll get to be on Hollywood Squares.

And VOAs are still only good for 90 days.

No matter what happened to the truth.

Some visa runners actually think the coup against thaksin was because of the VOA changes. What a small world we live in, when it revolves only around us.