Mantus

Very interesting responses and if this didn't actually happen outside of the world I call News Media I could probably take this course of forgive and forget. As I said: my mind is trying very hard to turn this into a "news article".

I guess the biggest lesson here for me is that I've built this mental screen for the sake of living a peaceful life. The last thing I want to worry about is government agents breaking down my door because someone made a mistake. A cop arresting me and beating me because I was taking picture at the wrong time and wrong place. Or being thrown in jail, breaking down, and causing my own indefinite incarceration.

I'm not worried about getting hit by a car when I cross the road. I know it happens often but I simply have to have faith in drivers. The best I can do is take precautions. Anything more would be a phobia that effects my life in a negative way.

I have a friend who is afraid of flying and it causes him much trauma; especially since life had a cruel sense of irony and gave him a compulsive need for travel. There are better things to worry about than "what ifs." But I find "what if" much harder to suppress because it's been made very real for me.

It's not the human error that bothers me in this case. I know there are bad people out there. I can deal with villains. This is a failure of the Ontario justice system because there were many people involved that could have stopped this insanity. The system perpetuated and protected this injustice.

It's like getting hit by a car because of a crossing light malfunction. Then being told there is nothing wrong with the light because the malfunctions are so rare.