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Hooray for vigilante justice!

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The whole criminal justice system is a bloody hassle, isn't it?  All those Policemen wandering around being Policey, Judges - who do they think they are, anyway? - having the cheek to judge people, and trial by jury. Twelve idiots off the street deciding whether you broke the law or not. Who needs all that?

Wouldn't life be far easier if the Bad People What Commit Crime (y'know, the black lads wandering round London, single mothers, and drug dealing scum on council estates) could be punished by anyone who thinks they committed a crime? 

Spot a mugger and feel free to throw them down the stairs like a nightclub bouncer dealing with a drunken idiot. Is that shifty looking bloke dealing drugs?  Probably. So pick him up WWF style and throw him through a window.

This woman stupidly tried to rob a coach full of people, and found out the hard way that her guns weren't a match for the mob of passengers. For whatever reason, they stripped her half naked and set her on fire, which proved some sort of point.

The article glosses over what sounds like a horrendous lawless place to live, in favour of two large photos of the half-naked, upset and humiliated Alejandra.  There's two of these vigilante attacks every three days, but let's not worry about those, look at the way she's covering her boobs!

Still, the comments are going to be somewhat sympathetic, right? I mean, she is a criminal, but she was set on fire for God's sake. There aren't many reasons to set someone on fire other than to kill them, and she hadn't actually been convicted of anything. She could have been a career shit, or just a girlfriend caught up in something. We don't know. So at least the Mail readers will understand that and take it into consider- oh, wait.

I bet she doesn't do that again.
- Bill, Wimborne, Dorset, Uk, 16/12/2009 13:19

Way to go, not pleasant, but nothing else seems to work. Deterrents are required, something the UK shies away from. Summary justice is often the most effective.
- Chris, Correze, France, 16/12/2009 13:20

That's right Chris, nothing else works. Nothing at all. It's fire or nothing.  That's what they do in Italy, you know. They set all criminals on fire and there's no crime at all. Compare that to Broken Britain, eh, where they let every murderer and his wife run around free and we're all crack addled baby eaters.

And the bottom rated?  As though you need to ask.

Poor woman
- Tilly, Tots TV, 16/12/2009 12:24

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