Originally Posted by b50m:
The first act of the guilty is to accuse someone else of their crime.
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"Projection is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people...The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and by redirecting libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or "projecting," those same faults onto another person or object." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection