The Justice System may turn into the next #MeToo
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My concern is this: People are going to start looking at the justice system next, and they won't like what they find.
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Mob justice is coming one day soon.
Soooo ... are you trying to get us to debate whether an native activist could use Twitter to get people riled up enough to form a lynch mob for a guy who stole farm equipment? Is that where you're trying to lead this thread?
I'd suggest that if vigilante justice does come to Canada, it'll be over some matter that inflames anger at the most visceral level. A child killer. A child rapist. A serial killer. A serial rapist. Not a guy who stole farm equipment. That doesn't provoke the same sort of visceral anger, even in Saskatchewan.
I don't think we've ever had a more likely candidate for vigilante justice than Karla Homolka. She's still alive and free on the streets, as far as I know. If nobody was mad enough to kill her, what makes you'd think some mob would form to go after a tractor thief?
Even our gun-toting friends south of the border are pretty indifferent to dispensing vigilante justice. I can't think of any well known recent examples off the top of my head.
Media personality and bipedal
****-stain Nancy Grace spent many years on TV trying to get her audience riled up enough to go murder somebody. She never succeeded. She did manage to get somebody to commit suicide, but she never managed to get somebody to commit a murder for her, though she tried very hard. If television firebrand and talking chunk of dog-
**** Nancy Grace can't get gun-toting Americans mad enough to commit vigilante murder, I doubt some aboriginal lady with a Twitter account can get mild-mannered Canadians mad enough to kill.
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