We’ve always known of GUILT BY ASSOCIATION.
If you are too close to a crime, or too close to a criminal, or too closely associated with a criminal, you could very well find yourself guilty and blamed in part for a crime.
In recent decades we’ve observed the rise of GUILT BY ACCUSATION.
If you are accused of being controlling or harassing, you are likely assumed to be guilty first, with great difficulty to prove innocence.
The facts of current reality demonstrate increased GUILT BY ACCUSER.
If you are guilty, your best shot for keeping your freedom and your neck is to get the media to cover your story blaming somebody else or something else.
While I am totally serious about the above, I must add a lighter twist now three days later, compliments of my wonderful border collie dog, Buddy.
He is close to ten years old now, and he recently perfected the fine art of begging for something when I’m eating.
You probably know the routine—he lays his head on my leg, gently, then firmly, and looks up at me.
He locks into eye contact that does the number on me—and that, my friends, is GUILT BY ADMIRATION.