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But then instead of catching the violent criminals, they'd go after people like you who's trying to bring justice where justice was denied (I don't support violence but at least someone's trying to do something to salvage the victim's pain which the law system failed to do).
If they have the strength and time to catch someone killing heinous criminals, why not catch the heinous criminals first and spare him the trouble to kill them?
I really believe in the rule of law, but I see how money and bigotry can skew justice ("affluenza" keeping a rich scumbag white man who showed zero remorse out of trouble, while unarmed men of color are gunned down by overarmed police because they "felt threatened"). Here, we have Harlequin stories, written about white folks and mainly for white folks, which keep telling us that a poor mother who is discovered by the insanely rich and sociopathic scumbag who fathered her child has to succumb to this filthy dirtbag's blackmail because his wealth can ensure that he will be given custody to a child born between them in a court of law, no matter what the circumstances are.
The fact that a fictional story can be written with this premise, and be published, really makes me bothered. The fact that it is believable is even worse. From the case of Loeb and Leopold to O.J. Simpson, it has been made obvious that the rich and famous can get away with murder, while the poor and "ethnic" are guilty until execution is pretty much the actuality of the rule of law.
My point: I'm pretty much a regular type retired military dude who really wants to believe in the government to provide liberty and justice for all. I'm also pretty much of an unreconstructed savage, a'la Major Joseph Makatozi from Louis Lamour's story, "Last of the Breed." Meaning, that if someone pulls total crap on those I love, and cannot be touched by the law, I WILL find a way to feed them into a large commercial sausage making machine. And you know what? There are so many real victims in the world that I can't make myself shed a single tear for an unrepentant scumbag who preyed on others. If that makes me filth beyond redemption, I'll look forward to the kind of filth I'll have to associate with in the afterlife!