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Prelude to Pitchforks

Some of you will remember this.  Gary Plauche, in front of a local television camera, shot and killed the man who kidnapped and sexually molested his son.  Baton Rouge prosecutors knew they couldn't get a conviction, so they offered Plauche  five years probation in return for a guilty plea.  There were two things at work here.  Plauche was driven to near insanity by what his son's karate instructor had done, and the community understood, and shared Plauche's outrage.  Yes, he  was wrong to take the law into his own hands, especially since the law was about to deal with the pedophile.  Don't matter.  If I was on the jury, I'd have voted for "guilty of discharging a firearm in a public place," or acquittal.  What brought this to mind ...?  I didn't go looking for it, it popped into my brain as I read that George Soros, and his Moveon.org leftist vigilantes, are advising Henry Waxman about legislating control of the internet, as part of the "Fairness Doctrine."    Other stuff popped up too, but ...  I forget what that was. You may think of something else too, which is okay.   Just remember --  count on your every public utterance being recorded into your permanent record. These people mean business.