Reply #122: Not disputing that. Power corrupts. Stanford prison. etc.

[TheMadMonk]

And strangely my experience with cops is that their behaviour towards you tends to mirror your behaviour towards them. And that sir is another strange human characteristic. Ok crowd situations do make differences, but then again having the drug squad, dog squad, locals and Melbourne CID on one's doorstep is fairly crowded in its own right. And my wrist didn't even sting at the end of it all.

And the question I asked was not for the difference between this incident and the redneck yobbo exercise of a few years ago. What I want to know is what is the difference between what you and a lot of others here wish to do to those cops/repukes/kiddy diddlers or whatever happens to outrage you at that moment, and dragging another human being behind a vehicle?

Not very difference is there? A lot of people here would like to see certain "bad" people hurt very badly in addition to any punishment they might merit under the law.

It is not a very pleasant image to confront in a mirror is it? But it is one that you are doomed to see, unless and until you recognise that in a legal sense we must be as concerned with protecting the perverts from the public as we are about protecting children from them.



As I've already said I happen to agree with people's estimations of what happened. What I and a couple of others are trying to say is that our personal beliefs, no matter how strong, (or even accurate) have no bearing on the matter. The only thing that matters is what the evidence demonstrates in a court of law.