“Street Justice” isn’t Justice! Check out this article from SFGate. Highlight is:
The article doesn’t mention the victim’s current status.
This is what happens when Batman isn’t prepared.
those worthless fucks. I say we go after 'em.
What I don’t get is why the “man in the bar” hasn’t been arrested. He’s the one who actively “enlisted the help” of the others.
Another thing: what charges could the woman face?
But, but, but…
‘Innocent until proven guilty’ doesn’t apply when you know they’re guilty!
And the person making the accusation is the one who saw it happen, so it must be true!
[Gary Larson voice]
“So you just threw everything together? … Matthews, a posse is something you have to organize.”
[/Gary Larson voice]
…Or lock dem good old boys up in a room with Ms. Lovitz for 15 minutes after informing them how much time they’re facing.
September’s turning out to be a bad month for falsely accused, 58 year old, male elbow benders.
This is indeed an outrage. If anyone uses false accusations as a justification to brutally attack innocent people without any evidence or due process, then by God, it should be duly authorized by our elected government officials.
That is just one example of a [possible] false charge though. I am sure he did enough bad stuff in his life to deserve a royal ass kicking. Haven’t many of us?
I have a related story in my family that most of you won’t believe but I don’t care because I don’t get enough chances to tell it. I have this older cousin (we actually call him Uncle Allen because that is the way southern terms work for that sort of thing). Anyway, Uncle Allen was adopted by my very rich and loving uncle (a real uncle; my grandfather’s brother). Uncle Allen went astray in his teen years and landed in all kinds of trouble. As a kid, people always insisted to me that he was some high-ranking guy in the KKK and my mother would neither confirm or deny it to me. He scared the crap out of my little brother with something related years later but my brother will not discuss it at all.
Anyway, Uncle Allen got married a few times and eventually ended up with a stepdaughter about my age. The whole family got even sleazier and I got my first exposure to BDSM at age 11 when I looked in the wrong closet at their house. One day, his stepdaughter confided in her mother that Uncle Allen was molesting her. She immediately got her (girlly) pistol and went hunting for him. She found him walking down main street in our tiny little town that has just a single main street. She opened fire blowing out some glass display windows including one, oddly enough, in my family’s store. He escaped unharmed except for maybe his drawers.
For some reason, she got questioned but she was never arrested and had to pay damages to get the stuff fixed. People just made jokes about poor aim for a while (these same jokes were made about another female family member years later). I never figured out if Uncle Allen really did molest his stepdaughter but the whole family was back together and seemingly as happy as ever a week later. They eventually got divorced years later but that isn’t important.
There isn’t a point to this story. Uncle Allen was still a shithead and maybe it would have been better for the world if he died that day.
Nobody deserves to be beaten so bad they’re put into a coma. And they certainly don’t deserve to have that done to them based on some idiot spreading rumors.
That was fucking excellent. Shagnasty, it’s posts like yours that make the membership fee worth it.
I must admit, for a obligatory Bush jab, this made me giggle.
Subjects of Batman’s style of justice have been shown statistically to have lower recidivism rates than those subjected to the traditional justice system. So the problem isn’t vigilante justice per se, it’s just that vigilantism is best left to (uber-ass-kicking) professionals.
Are you kidding me? Batman villains have a near 100% recidivism rate–hell, the Joker has a 100% returning-from-the-dead-to-keep-committing-insane-crimes rate.
How did they determine the accusation was false? The article doesn’t say. Was this another he-said-she-said situation, maybe?
Just 'cuz it’s in the newspaper don’t mean it’s true.
What a tragic misuse of the bar-fight, which is normally a paragon of truth and justice.
Tell me why does a vigilante man
Carry that club in his hands?
Would he beat an innocent man down?
That no good vigilante man!
– Woody Guthrie
Irrelevant. They don’t have to prove it was false in order to make the beating wrong.
If you want to accuse someone of doing something like this, there are appropriate legal channels, and it is then up to the state to prove that the person is guilty of what they’ve been accused of.
Well shit, genius, you might actually be right.
And in cases of he-said-she-said, the appropriate response is not to gather together a posse and beat the shit out of the person being accused. Shame you haven’t got the integrity and intelligence to condemn that behavior, choosin instead to imply that the whole thing might actually be justified.
It’s not a new problem.