When I say there oughta be a law, I suppose I am thinking that if someone were following me down the street, and I had a phone on me and called 911, I would like for there to be legal grounds for the police to respond to my call and confront/detain the follower. In a culture where I can get in trouble for making an illegal left turn in the middle of the the night with no other cars on the road, yeah, I think it's odd that someone who stalks someone else even once isn't considered to have done anything wrong.
Now, why must my holding this opinion, even if it can be shown to be naive and unworkable, be taken as evidence that I am desperate to find George Zimmerman guilty of something? To me, the Zimmerman incident demonstrates something I already believed, which is that armed street patrolling by civilians acting completely on their own authority is behavior that causes trouble and should be formally (i.e., with laws) discouraged. Again, by all means disagree that my stance is practical, but don't you dare accuse me of being part of a would-be lynch mob.
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Date: 2013-07-19 02:31 pm (UTC)Now, why must my holding this opinion, even if it can be shown to be naive and unworkable, be taken as evidence that I am desperate to find George Zimmerman guilty of something? To me, the Zimmerman incident demonstrates something I already believed, which is that armed street patrolling by civilians acting completely on their own authority is behavior that causes trouble and should be formally (i.e., with laws) discouraged. Again, by all means disagree that my stance is practical, but don't you dare accuse me of being part of a would-be lynch mob.