Reply #31: Someone in another thread raised an interesting point [View All]

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in that this case is a pretty high-profile example of folks being convicted and crucified by the media, only for it to be revealed years later (if this guy's confession is true) that they were in fact innocent.

I'm sure you can think of some more recent and more politically-relevant instances of people being pilloried as guilty by one organization or another absent formal conviction in a court of law. It's just as real in this case with this kid's parents as it is with, say, the gaggle of possibly-harmless, possibly-deadly folks picked up in Toronto awhile back. Are they guilty of X, Y or Z? I simply don't know, though I know a large chunk of the Canadian population spent some time calling for their extrajudicial execution on the weight of the National Post's screaming alone.

This is simply a fairly high-profile example of that sort of conviction in the court of public opinion (or the court of imposed opinion) falling on its face in the presence of counter-evidence - well after the damage is done.

In other words, you can find political interest in damn near anything if you keep your various sensory appendages open and working, and think outside of the box a little.

Or, y'know, not bother reading the threads that don't interest you, there being hundreds of non-Ramsey threads kicking around every single day, spanning hundreds of thousands of posts.