Rape is a particularly heinous crime meriting particular heinous punishment. In NO case should a mob determine that punishment.
Whether he committed this rape or not, Hyland has only been charged, not convicted (though I admit to not fancying his chances in court). The public and those semi-savages, the paras, are 'baying for the blood' of a man who, as of this moment, is innocent of any crime.
When and if he is found guilty, I don't want him turned over to a mob. I want him to spend long, long years in a dank, uncomfortable prison. I want him to be denied civil rights. I want him to pay restitution to his victim. I want him to suffer and suffer and suffer for what he did. But at the hands of the law.
Boru
Whether he committed this rape or not, Hyland has only been charged, not convicted (though I admit to not fancying his chances in court). The public and those semi-savages, the paras, are 'baying for the blood' of a man who, as of this moment, is innocent of any crime.
When and if he is found guilty, I don't want him turned over to a mob. I want him to spend long, long years in a dank, uncomfortable prison. I want him to be denied civil rights. I want him to pay restitution to his victim. I want him to suffer and suffer and suffer for what he did. But at the hands of the law.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
