"There was never a trial."
Yes there was. It took place in the showers at the OC jail. Tried, convicted and executed. I'm drinking a nice glass of cab and rejoicing with a nice cigar.
That's an unpatriotic point of view. Our laws call for a public trial before the bench of justice. No trial, no justice.
What happened in that shower is called a lynching. If you're on the side of a lynch mob, you're not on my side. My side believes in justice under law.
The law is not established to protect the guilty man; it is established to protect the innocent man accused of a crime he did not commit. If we allow this sort of thing, then no one is safe. Who knows -- next time it may be you or me that finds himself accused but innocent, looking down the business end of a lynch-mob's "justice".
"on suspicion of possessing child pornography"
SCENARIO:
Some jerk owns your computer as part of his windows botnet. He plants the porn on your comp because, well, that's just the sort of person he is.
SECENARIO:
Some jerk owns your computer and uses it to download child pornography so that /he/ won't get caught.
SCENARIO:
You block-download everything on a usenet porn group. (morally reprehensible...but justifying capital retribution?) Someone had posted child pornography in the group, so now your guilty of acquisition and possession.
All this has happened before... please do tell how it is that *you* know he was guilty?
Yes there was. It took place in the showers at the OC jail. Tried, convicted and executed. I'm drinking a nice glass of cab and rejoicing with a nice cigar.
If anyone’s handing out a prize for Idiot of the Week, I’m putting you in for it.