At last - Sanity prevails?

[gajinoz]

People lost their livelyhoods. Because of the ramblings of a mentally ill alcoholic mother, and the prosecution team that tried to prove her right.

Unfortunately these things tend to happen all the time. I'm not sure what can be done to prevent it. The "justice" system is a little like democracy. Deeply flawed in practice but excellent in theory, but who has a better one? All you can really do is keep chipping away at it and make what improvements you can, it will never be perfect.

 

[Mike Hull]

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The children told stories of caves and tunnels under the Day care center where the alleged satanic rituals took place. The center was razed, and big surprise, no such structures were found.

People lost their livelyhoods. Because of the ramblings of a mentally ill alcoholic mother, and the prosecution team that tried to prove her right.

They also swore to being flown to the high desert, and Las Vegas during their lunch hour to take part in filmed satanic rituals, and sex with animals, and then flown back to school before their lunch hour ended.

Two of the parents, of different families also owed the school thousands of dollars in back tuition, and the molestation charges were a good way to get out of that.
I still have a hard time in figuring why the law not only went along with the whole thing, but aided and abetted it.
It just boggles my mind, and shakes my already shaky faith in law enforcement further.:barf:

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I wonder why there is no statutory provision for restitution in cases like these? It's a difficult ordeal to live through. The children themselves were harmed by the implantation of these memories about as much as they would have been by the reality, had it been in any way true. But the innocent family that was dragged could use a piece of what was spent trying to destroy them, to set them up elsewhere.

 

[gajinoz]

They also swore to being flown to the high desert, and Las Vegas during their lunch hour to take part in filmed satanic rituals, and sex with animals, and then flown back to school before their lunch hour ended.

Two of the parents, of different families also owed the school thousands of dollars in back tuition, and the molestation charges were a good way to get out of that.
I still have a hard time in figuring why the law not only went along with the whole thing, but aided and abetted it.
It just boggles my mind, and shakes my already shaky faith in law enforcement further.:barf:

Sounds like a modern day re-enactment of the Salem witch trials!

 

[Clint Simpson]

Whoah, people! Dissenting opinion here. This officer murdered an unarmed, defenceless man who allegedly committed an offence? And this is a good thing?

This is step one on a very slippery downhill road.

maximus otter

I agree.

If he was caught red-handed: PLUG ‘IM! But otherwise? That is what a court is for.

Let’s play WHAT IF? What if the dead guy was INNOCENT? That means the REAL molester got away with it because they stoped looking for him when they thought he was dead.

What if you, dear reader, were falsely accused of child molestation and pursued vigorously by police. (There was a Law & Order SVU episode like this) Before bail is posted, you remark, in anger at being railroaded, that you wish harm to came to the cops kids. Maybe you wish them to be molested again or even killed. If this happens while you are in jail: it PROVES your innocence.

This is NOT rational, but you are under duress

I do believe the dead guy was probably guilty; but PROBABLY doesn’t count.

I do believe the dead guy got what he deserved; but not by a cop acting on his own.

He was shot not because he was a molester, he was shot because he said an angry remark.

Doing a good thing for the wrong reason is still wrong.

 

[Clint Simpson]

a properly constituted court with a jury system found this guy was justified.

So what is your opinion on the O.J. trial?

 

[panella]

I think vigilantism is an outgrowth of a failing justice system. When politicians and courts fail to protect the law abiding citizens to whom they answer then there will be some who act to protect themselves and their families where the law will not.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Especially when the act of vigilantism is found to be justified by a jury. That's not the judge speaking, the politician speaking, or the officer speaking; it's the people saying that something is wrong and that they're not being served. Judges, politicians, and police ought to listen.

When otherwise law abiding citizens start usurping political and judicial authority in meaningful numbers to maintain and enforce the law, say 10% of criminal court cases, then I'll start worrying about a slippery slope. But if that ever becomes a fact then we all have a lot more to worry about from the government than the vigilantes.

Meanwhile, the community in the case referred to only took 33 minutes to rule that the "vigilante" action was a justifiable homocide. Coarse as it may sound they felt that justice and the safety of the community were best served by the officer's actions. In the state of Texas the phrase is: "He needed killin'"