[Pahuanui]

I've been quite happy to watch the "persecution" of common criminals being caught and slapped about by the citizenry (myself included), or the police.

Why am I not suprised that you've been 'quite happy' to see people slapped around by the police?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Because you realize that I am the type of person who believes muggers and theives and criminals deserve what they get.

Tell me, when the men in my neighborhood ran down a thief last year after he had stolen a bike from a local girl, were we wrong to be happy in the accomplishment, including the bruising tackle the thief suffered at the end of the chase when we dragged him down to the pavement at the curb in the middle of an intersection? Was it wrong for us to be gleeful in watching him rightly suffer at our hands for the wrongs he did our neighborhood?

Was I supposed to be tearful and sorrowful when a boy who mugged me at gunpoint was literally tossed 10 feet into the back of the paddywagon? Why? Did his "human dignity" demand kid glove treatment?