Yeah, who needs a trial? Why, everyone should be free to kill whomever they feel may have wronged them - who needs evidence, the police or the court system? Just go ahead --- bang away. < /sarcasm, well deserved>
While I agree with the sentiment; we do have a court system, we do have a police force, and we do have something I like to call 'due process'. Everyone gets their day in court - now if he was found guilty, I have no problem with this sort of punishement being doled out. Just give him his time in court.
You know what,there is a reason YOU called it a court system and not a justice system.I wonder why that is.
Why, everyone should be free to kill whomever they feel may have wronged them - who needs evidence, the police or the court system?
No, they should only be free to kill those who are guilty of capital crimes and not executed by the state.
As Ed Harris said in Gone Baby Gone, it depends on who gets killed.
My problem with what dad did is *did* the guy molest his kid?? What did he have to go on, did he catch him in the act or what? If the guy didn’t really do anything, then dad is dead wrong for going after him.
There were cases in the past - the McMartin school for one - where people were accused of horrific acts against children but the stories got so distorted and just plain out there that it really made no sense. Animal sacrifices and people flying in the air and a child being drilled in the arms??? There was another case involving a daycare where the kids talked about giraffes being there and a teacher playing the piano in the nude - all within a totally open room with only dividers in place.
It’s easy to react instinctively when a child is the victim. And if he did molest the child then I can understand dad’s rage and reaction. But *did* he do it?
Your point is of course well taken. Yes we must strive to be a nation of laws, not of men.
At the same time... As a peaceable citizen I simply don’t fear for myself or any of my neighbors any violence from the father that has extracted his own personal justice from the parasite that molested his precious little girl. Yes, he took the law into his own hands, and he shouldn’t have. In his situation though, I cannot say that I or many of the men I know wouldn’t have done the same thing.
But the end of it is this: the father did wrong, but he is no continuing threat to his community, as compared to the perp that he took care of. That parasite is going to be a permanent threat to every place he ever lives. The punishments should fit not just the crime, but the future threat. The molester is a massive threat. The father is no threat whatsoever.
Sounds to me like the father and his friend processed the perv just fine