(October 16, 2021 at 6:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(October 16, 2021 at 6:38 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Bystanders should all be charged with aiding and abetting.
No, I don't agree. If you were not a part of a crime, and you fear for your life, or injury, you cannot make it a crime when you had no pre knowledge of the event.
I get the intent of wanting to help. I seriously get that intent. But it is crazy to convict someone whom was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time as being complicit in the moment.
The better argument in law, would be way after the fact, when you didn't report your observations. That would be a better case. But even then, the threats of the murderer can keep an innocent person silent.
Quite sure, and would bet my life that is how John Gotti got away with all his crimes and violence as long as he did.
Nope.
If you're willing to stand by and witness someone getting raped and not do a thing about it, that speaks volumes of the individual as a person.
If it was gunmen and you are unarmed or in direct fear for your life, that's one thing. But sitting by as someone gets raped is another.
But, of course, this is in a country that won't indict a former president for his own admitted crimes, but will put a bounty out on a woman who gets an abortion.
Dying to live, living to die.