Is any one eles is upset that… No ody could help save this Boston bombers … Why are they treating these boys like criminals and not like the victims of the worlds hate and emptyness…arresting this kid and putting him in jail or killing him is not the anweser.
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That is compassion in a nutshell. And it is a difficult road to walk. Compassion isn’t easy.
It’s called “mob rule,” something America slips into once in awhile. New England has been more liberal and less likely to do so lately.
Still, Salem comes to mind. It’s nauseating and I’m glad the manhunt portion is over.
Well, I don’t know if these two were innocent or guilty–what the news, police, and FBI say carries little weight for me. Putting that aside though, anyone who DOES commit a random bombing ceases to be a victim of anything in my eyes. Some people do need to be locked away for the good of everyone else.
Certainly the world needs a major overhaul on several fronts and we need to change the situations which cause people to go off the deep end which are allowed to fester through laziness, disinterest, and ulterior motives but there is a line which, once you cross it, I say too fucking bad, don’t want to hear it.
Yes I agree with you Twitch. You seem British. You’ve probably had a few bouts of mob rule here and there. It’s interesting that people mostly don’t recognize it when it’s happening, although it’s probably also a necessary precondition for mob rule to occur.
In mob rule, what we call “due process” in our justice system briefly becomes a rare luxury. In mob rule the people flock after someone with pitch forks and torches burning. In Salem we had the with trials. In our deep south, lynching has been a problem. Mob rule happens in most other places too.
The storming of the Bastille, probably when your kings are on their way to the gallows that sort of thing. It’s like a lightning strike in that mob rule is brief and localized to a small area, and mob rule says nothing about fairness or the established system: it’s nearly anarchy for a time.
New Jersey actually, though I’ve lived all over. I do like gin, dry humor, and think men in dresses are hysterical though.
Well damn the ’67 Newark riots are the only thing that comes to mind in Jersey, and metro riots are a different animal: it’s more “pure,” by the people while in this case law enforcement is exerting something like mob rule before ordinary vigilantes try it.
Does anyone remember the Chris Dorner manhunt from a few months ago? Remember that day, when over 100 rounds were shot at a blue Toyota pickup truck in which Margie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother (Emma Hernandez) were delivering newspapers? Remember the surfer guy who’s truck got shot up later that same day? Even police officers get carried away during mob rule.
The reason I bring this up, is that good people DO struggle with mob rule. Due process is supposed-to take over for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The best thing for a small group is to make a phone call and discreetly turn themselves in prior-to or early-on in the manhunt portion.
Other forms of mob rule (LA riots in the 90’s, EuroZone collapse riots lately) are WAY more messy and often much more unfair. Innocent bystanders and many many people who stay safely indoors have their lives inadvertently wrecked. As bad as the Tsarnaev manhunt was, police were doing well to avoid “citizen vigilante” mob rule this weekend. Lots of people have quick tempers, itchy trigger fingers and poor eyesight.