Posted on 09/30/2015 11:54:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Sarah Sands was terrified and deeply disturbed when she learned that she and her five children were living next door to a sex offender.
Protecting her children, she picked up a kitchen knife and walked across the Canning Town estate in East London to where 77-year-old Michael Pleasted lived.
She was just trying to scare him, she said. But when he “smirked” at her, she was filled with a mother’s protective rage.
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Happy story from a Michigan prison in February. Be sure to check out the video.
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/02/murderer_says_he_killed_prison.html
It’s wonderful when we can skip trials, huh.
It’s in England, so the chances of being shot were quite low.
It was a preemptive strike.
Granted he should be under a jail, and it`s a screaming admission of the failure of the justice system where she resides, BUT, SHE`S not judge, jury and executioner. So it`s vigilantism and she needs to be punished.
How much, and/or what that punishment should be is debatable, but while they`re at it, the judge who released this animal needs to go to jail as well.
There were trials. 24 of them apparently.
Her only mistake was poor planning.
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Western Civilization began to disintegrate when we abandoned the tar-pot, the feather-bag, and the fence-rail.
Well, he had a record of molestations going back 3 decades, had molested children living in that complex recently, and had just been released on bail by the government to live in that same complex where he had been preying on the children.
Different rules for the ruling class donchaknow.
I’m not arguing with you, but you bring up an interesting point: At what point does the average citizen have the right to do the job the justice system won’t do?
23 convictions, and out on parole for 2. You even admitted that the justice system had failed in this case. When the justice system fails, what remedies ARE appropriate?
But you see that would never happen because the justice system has evolved into perp protectionism. The victim be damned.
“AT HER ESTATE”
There may be some confusion due to the language there. They don’t mean the molestations happened at her property. In England, an “estate” means a council estate, which is their term for a public housing complex.
You either live with the F-ed up system, try and change it (Go Cruz)(or even Trump), or launch a revolution. But being and supporting vigilantism only gets you anarchy.
Or have you forgotten about the so called blacklivesmatter movement? By their 'reasoning' they`re 'seeking justice' too, so you still like vigilantism then?
“She executed him.” —Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
In Britain, you will find that many murders are given the verdict: misadventure. Seriously. When I lived there, a man from the south of England drowned his wife up in the Lake District. He then reported her missing. When her body floated up and was recovered, they put the pieces of the story together and figured out he killed her. And many people just said ‘well, she nagged him’. And excused it. I don’t remember that he had to do any time for the murder.
Then they need to change that system, in other words, put up, or shut up!
Or an ‘estate’ can also mean a former actual estate that has been built out with single family dwellings, too. Doesn’t have to be Council Flats or public housing.
Sure, but I think the article was specific that this one was a council estate. At least I think that was mentioned in another part of the article.
I have the transcripts from his lawyers interrogation. “Was she a big nagger?” ‘ No, no. A little white white woman about this high.’
Just thought I’d add this story to the mix. Ellie Nesler was hailed as a heroine for killing her son’s molester. IIRC, he smirked at her as she went up to testify at his preliminary hearing and she snapped. She pulled out a gun ans shot him. This article has a lot of details that were not apparent at the time she killed. Sad, messy story, but I remember the t-shirts that said ‘nice shootin’, Ellie!’.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-nesler30-2008dec30-story.html
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