The Facebook group "I hate it when my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard" has over 183,000 fans.
The Sun's petition calling for transparency in the recent Jon Venebles case and scrapping of rules protecting re-offending criminals has "over 70,000".
I know the two can't easily be compared but my point is that people will put their name to anything you put in front of them without thinking about it. The Sun sells more than a million copies a day and has managed to gain "over 70,000" peoples signatures, meaning that just over 7% of their daily readership agrees with them enough to put their name to it, despite having nothing to lose.
Oh, except the universal and indiscriminate right to a fair trial.
But in this case you can't have both "The right to know" through trial transparency and the universal "right to a fair trail", so which will it be?
Personally, I'd rather have the fair trial than find out information for the sake of finding out information.
So, they tell us and then what? The case will fall through because Jon Venebles can't have a fair trial. This is a classic example of the tabloids sprinting the first lap to be photographed at the front, without thinking about the gold medal at the end.
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The Milkshake Facebook fan page is humourous and people know its related to a harmless song.
ReplyDeleteThe Venables issue is more of a complex issue, which involves thinking and research before putting your name to it.
maybe 93% of readers realised they would be giving up their civil liberties ( currently a sore topic for the masses)
Law is there to prevent crime, someone looked up and said they cannot have a murder on their concience because of the release of information.
Just look at American vigilante groups who hunt people from the sex offender register to harm them for a crime they were punished for