ytownfootball;1355474 wrote:The interwebs is the public domain. They're not law enforcement, they can't put evidence out there for public consumption anyway and jeopardize legal prosecution. All they can do is lead law enforcement in the right direction. They've done that. The byproduct is damning in the court of public opinion, that can't be avoided.
But they already did put SOME evidence out there, so why not all of it? I guess I have a problem with vigilante justice, especially when some of it is being done by means that are clearly illegal (hacking). The whole MOW/Jim Parks things is particulary scary, especially if it turns out that he isn't guilty of anything. Right now they've found files on his computer, which they describe like this...
"Among the many interesting things discovered in this trove were several pornographic images of extremely young women, quite possibly underage. One particularly difficult to explain image lifted from James Parks E-Mail is this picture, which appears to show a scantily clad under-age student. It would seem to have been surreptitiously shot in the girls bathroom at the high school."
"quite possibly underage", "appears to show...under-age student", and "seems to have been...at the high school"
These charges are qualified (possibly, appears, seems), and yet they draw a picture of someone that is a true creeper. If he is, I hope he gets what he deserves. But if he isn't, then the 'damning in the court of public opinion' will have taken its toll.
There is plenty of smoke here, I'll give you that. But some of these 'truthers' are seeing the smoke and immediately trying to fight a fire that may or may not be there.