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Originally Posted by powerclown
Doesn't have to be political figures, replace Roman Polanski with anyone else reviled or scorned. Ex-husbands, ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, ex-boyfriends, the guy that ran over your dog or insulted your mother. The "thin line of civilization"... everyone has a breaking point, even Tully.
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There's a difference between having a breaking point and wanting revenge. I'm not a big fan of revenge. Now before you go saying well if someone... Let me tell you a couple examples where people I cared about were victims of violence.
Shortly after high school a good friend was attacked and killed. She was my brother best friends girlfriend. We all hung out together, we were all pretty close. One night she went to the restroom at a bar and never came back to the group. The next morning they found her headless body floating in the Willamette River. For several years her boyfriend was the prime suspect. About five years later a truck driving serial killer confessed to killing her. BTW- my brothers best friend has never been the same. I honestly think the experience ruined his life.
About two years before moving to Mexico some one killed the man my daughter was suppose to marry. Hit and run situation. He was walking home from asking his best friend to be his best man at their wedding. Never found the driver, least never charged or convicted him. Lived in a small community, several people claim they know who did it. The person they claim did it seem to have lost his truck the same night as the hit and run. To my knowledge he's never produced the vehicle nor expalined exactly where it went. If I had to guess I'd guess it's buried on the families large dairy farm somewhere.
I don't want either of these people to fry or cut their nuts of either. I'd like the justice system to work and convict and sentence them according to the law.
See I don't believe in a "thin line of civilization." I think that line is clear cut and without it civilization is lacking. In short "mob rule" is a terrible rule.