Posted on 06/14/2007 7:27:05 PM PDT by girlangler
Just wanted to point out that I doubt she said, "I've allegedly been raped!"
They can't very well try the poor, poor victim first.
My God man, THINK! What if the jury convicted him?!?!
That would pretty much ruin the case against this evil guy who claimed he was acting to allegedly protect the 11 year old slut who seduced this innocent young man...
Wow. That would be a heck of a jury to serve on. Frankly, I’d have to hear the testimony.
Men will kill in defense of their family. It’s an instinct and a good one. Done after the fact and in place of due process it just has to be illegal, or civilization breaks. Understandable as it may be.
The great risk in vigilante action, of course, is that the vigilante is wrong. He’s all well and good and “understandably enraged” until he pulls the trigger on an innocent person. There’s a good reason for due process, and as agonizing as it is sometimes, it slows the “revenge” process and forces some discipline to making sure that the ~actual~ right person has been nabbed.
I think sentencing could be a point of consideration. The enraged father taking out his daughter’s rapist in a moment of passion isn’t the risk to society at large that is the gangbanger thug who just points and shoots guns out of car windows at random. He’s highly unlikely to ever do it again. I’d give him a far lighter sentence that the gangbanger. Far lighter.
But consider the enraged father who hunts down and kills the wrong guy? A totally innocent person is dead. What now?
If the “victim” had been eleven years old and NOT a stripper I could have seen it happening.
You’re not the father of a daughter I see.
That part of the headline appears to be inaccurate, since the story says the accused attacker hasn't even gone to trial yet.
And enough fingers.
Let me tell you a story...
Outside of Macon off a country road
Justice was forsaken when they let the wrong man go
Johnny Law was shady first one on the scene
They called it murder in the first degree
Dead man walkin’, walkin’ down the hall
Judge says guilty but still he’s standin’ tall
Dead man walkin’ they say he broke the law
Takin’ the life of another man who done his daughter wrong
Light ‘em up, lay ‘em down
Take ‘em out but there’s more of us around
When wrong is right and right is wrong
Oh there’s a dead man walkin’ tonight
Walk on...
Walk on...
Walk on...
OOOOOOOOOoooo...
If I ask you a question, would you tell the truth
Would you pull the triger if you were standin’ in his shoes
Dead man walkin’ I know what I’d do
If someone hurt my baby I’d be walkin’ too
Light ‘em up, oh lay ‘em down
Take ‘em out but there’s more of us around
When right is wrong and wrong is right
Oh there’s a dead man walkin’ tonight
Walk on...
You gotta walk on baby
Walk on...
Ooohh...
You gotta walk on baby
Walk on...
OOOOOoooooooo...
Yeah...
So if I ask you that question, would you tell the truth?
Ahaha...Dead man walkin’
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Same here. Even if I didn't at first succeed, I would be back.
You know, there is a reason why we have trials. Forgive me for being so blunt, but daddys will always believe their little girls, and quite frankly in this day and age, I’m not so quick to believe children who’re inundated with the knowledge that you can get an adult in real trouble by crying molestation.
Sorry, send him to prison as an example to others who’d take the law into their own hands.
I’m shocked. just shocked.
I think I’d have tried to shoot him eleven times, one for each year of the daughters age.
Shouldn't we have a trial, examine some evidence, etc until we decide that someone got away with a crime?
But, but...but...he's one of them durn HATFIELD'S!!!!
Someone bet against me on this: In about three years Hatfield will be out of prison and the first thing he'll do is kill Ditty.
We'll see the thread here on FR linked to this one sometime in 2010.
>> >> n&v: Have you no faith in our legal system???
I believe we’re to have faith in God.
What pedophile would abuse a child if it knew the father would shortly arrive on the door step and do no less than kick the pedophile’s ass?
Hopefully Ditty will be in jail in three years- he hasn’t “walked”, his trial begins in August. The title (which is not the title of the actual article) is misleading.
It is a misleading title but I think they meant to infer he is “walking around”.
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