This is why vigilante justice can be soo bad.

[shortylickens]

I absolutely agree! They kill each other all the time and it barely makes the news, so obviously it's not too big a deal to them...

While I agree with your point its probably best you dont argue with Moonbeam. He's insane and cant understand you anyways.

 

[etrigan420]

This, exactly.

Yup. It looks like his emotions got the better of him, but he (at least) attempted to make it right after the fact.

God I hate Spike Lee though...what a pretentious prick.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Friom what I understand, Spike Lee has apologized and reached a settlement with the couple. He was still a complete moron for doing it in the first place, but at least he's tried to rectify the situation.

Did apologize because he got the wrong address or because he understood that "trial and conviction by media opinion" is wrong? Odds are he is only sorry he got the wrong address.

 

[nobodyknows]

Damn, you can't even kill a black kid anymore without some loons getting all uppity. Who woulda thunk.

Like killing someone is a joke.

 

[nobodyknows]

Did apologize because he got the wrong address or because he understood that "trial and conviction by media opinion" is wrong? Odds are he is only sorry he got the wrong address.

Well, he's black so he's entitled. Didn't he "settle" with the old couple too?

I hope they sue Barr too. She's got a big mouth anyway.

 

[1prophet]

It's one of those gray areas.

It seems wrong if it's done in the spirit of "here's the home address of Zimmerman/abortion doctor/etc." to sic a mob or vigilante.

On the other hand, the occupy movement did a march in front of a Wall Street CEO's house. What if they published the address to meet at for the march?

On the one hand you want to say 'the people who use that address for violence are mainly responsible', but on the other, sometimes it's a clear contributory factor to put our information like that. So there's an issue of deciding which is which - what if one of the occupy people had run in the house and hurt someone? Would the march organizer have been criminally liable with no violent intent? Should we shut down all marches because of the chance of a problem? What about marches on Wall Street? In DC?

Actually IIRC when Martin Luther King planned the famous speech in Washington D. C., the government was concerned, 'what if that mob decides to march on buildings'?

They could have marched to Congress, how could hundreds of thousands of people have been stopped from mass damage if they wanted?

The same way they always do, by bringing out the military.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

A kid gets shot dead for packing skittles and wearing a hoodie and this is why vigilante justice can be so bad?

 

[Moonbeam]

Yeah, who needs that whole "due process" and "presumption of innocence" nonsense, trial by media, celebs and president is fine and more efficient! The guy has not even been charged with anything as of yet. Maybe he will, maybe he won't, but until he is convicted of something he's presumed to be innocent and all these celebs like Spike Lee and Barr are just showing themselves to be ignorant trash.

So were the Revolutionaries that broke with English law. They decided that there was too much law and no justice. You think you can feed folk an infinite amount of indifference and they are going to take it? Even monkeys know when things are unfair.