Who, among our upright and moral FReepers would want to be the one to carve those words to mark the grave of one they provided the rope for in a frenzy?
Justice is best conducted in a dispassionate atmosphere, in the absence of clouding emotions, and with faith that ultimately, if the guilty go free now, they will still have to answer for their actions later.
A frenzied mob is seldom a just instrument, and though its actions may seem right at the time, the individuals who participated often lived a lifetime of regret.
Every crowd is a tinder-dry mob, waiting for a spark, even online.
Not necessarily. Consider the Tea Party rallies, or the Marches for Life, or most religious assemblies, or classical, folk or soft-pop concerts. Some crowds behave well.
But this crowd here today on FR, by that measure -- downright scary.
That is the reason Capitol Cases should not be tried on TV. The most serious of offenses and most serious of trials we have in this nation have been turned into a Freak Show Circus. Courts have become media focused and not truth and justice focused.