It's disgusting to see people willingly perverting the course of justice just to gain 15 minutes of online fame. The sad thing is that these backward illiterate hicks believe that they're somehow standing up for the families affected most by this tragedy. If anything they're simply causing more problems in the long run. If the country is rife with these cyber-lynch mobs spreading this rubbish then it will be harder to come across an impartial jury when this goes to trial. Getting the idea in peoples heads that Brendan Sokaluk is guilty before it has been proven in a court of law is simply a travesty of justice. What if he didn't do it? Arrested doesn't mean convicted. People do get acquitted of charges and a mistrial caused by some loudmouths who don't respect the law would be much worse. How would the families feel then?
I'm not usually in the habit of joining facebook groups. For me it's only ever been Cerys Matthews and I've always maintained that that's the way it would stay (I'm weird like that). But the group Against fools who may cause Brendan Sokaluk to get a mistrial is giving these cyber mobs a taste of their own medicine. The group started with focus on Yvette Langstaff's lynch group, then moved onto Josh Magro's, and looks like it's developing into a general anti-lynch mob group. I think it's a worthwhile venture and a much needed counterweight to the rot that's currently out there on facebook. A random member summed it up best...
"i'm so happy that someone has finally made this group. i keep seeing burn the arsonsists groups, as well as those that call for the man who threw his daughter off the westgate bridge to be thrown off the bridge himself. not only do they jeopardise any fair justice, likely having the opposite effect of getting the offenders off, but their objective is to commit murder, the same crime they ostensibly oppose."
If you missed the pitchfork and torch boat maybe this one is for you.
I'm not usually in the habit of joining facebook groups. For me it's only ever been Cerys Matthews and I've always maintained that that's the way it would stay (I'm weird like that). But the group Against fools who may cause Brendan Sokaluk to get a mistrial is giving these cyber mobs a taste of their own medicine. The group started with focus on Yvette Langstaff's lynch group, then moved onto Josh Magro's, and looks like it's developing into a general anti-lynch mob group. I think it's a worthwhile venture and a much needed counterweight to the rot that's currently out there on facebook. A random member summed it up best...
"i'm so happy that someone has finally made this group. i keep seeing burn the arsonsists groups, as well as those that call for the man who threw his daughter off the westgate bridge to be thrown off the bridge himself. not only do they jeopardise any fair justice, likely having the opposite effect of getting the offenders off, but their objective is to commit murder, the same crime they ostensibly oppose."
If you missed the pitchfork and torch boat maybe this one is for you.
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