[StalkingYou]

I don’t think there is any “allegedly” about number 5. Did you see the damage to the front of his vehicle? He definitely plowed through something. I’m not saying that mob justice is right. But, sometimes it’s fair and just.

[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by StalkingYou ↗

I don’t think there is any “allegedly” about number 5. Did you see the damage to the front of his vehicle? He definitely plowed through something. I’m not saying that mob justice is right. But, sometimes it’s fair and just.

The problem is, of course, that without due process no one will ever truly know, with any meaningful amount of evidence or investigation, whether it was fair and just at all. It will always be 'allegedly' because the investigation to determine the actual facts has been foregone.

In this case, it probably was a drunk driver. Of course, the State has determined that such a crime is not deserving of the death penalty. We elect officials to make those laws and if we think the laws are too weak, we elect different officials.

But more to the point, what if the guy had a seizure? Or had a bad reaction to new medication and blacked out. What if his car's brakes had a mechanical failure? What if he hit three people because he swerved to miss a child in the road?

In any of those cases, this sort of mob rule would be anything BUT fair and just. It would be a travesty and a crime itself. Now the truth can never be made known, whatever it may have been.

Mobs are stupid. They are comprised of stupid sheeple who slake a bloodthirst by falling in with a braying herd and rationalizing it after the fact as 'justice.' Most civilized cultures have trained professionals to make certain that justice is carried out with a thorough investigation and a proper trial.

Does that system always work? No. It is subject to many flaws.

But none of those flaws are greater than the terror and madness of Mob Rule by abject simpletons. The risk for miscarriage of justice is far too high.

In a world that is truly right and just, regardless of whether the driver was guilty or not, every single person who joined that mob to kill him would be going to prison in his place.

Just my two cents.

Well, mine and the Constitution's.

[StalkingYou]

I was looking at it strictly from a drunk driving perspective. I really dislike drunk drivers since it’s completely preventable. I had a lot of experience dealing with them as an EMT and when I was in the Navy working in the ER. I do see and respect your position. You’re right, it could have been a seizure or another type of medical emergency. They could always draw his blood and check his etoh level?