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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
You know in the Salem Witch Hunt, those folks weren't witches, right? No evidence of their witchery? Miller is nothing like those folks. He was in fact convicted of his crimes, tried to "apologize" to the NHL teams to better his chances of being drafted with no evidence of any contrition? I don't think those facts are at issue, but let me know if they are in dispute.
As for the "loved one" exercise. Yes, I would be appalled if a relation of mine acted in this way. I would have sought him to make amends. Failing that, I don't think the consequences were that great, not that surprising.
(None of which has anything to do with the Canadian Criminal Code! I don't know why that is even brought up!)
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As mentioned in another post, what happened in Salem is a classic example of group think. It is for illustrative purposes only, not meant to be an equivalency. There's another interesting example of people being convicted of Satanism, child molestation, etc. in a small town in Saskatchewan in the early 90s, based on little facts. I'm not suggesting Miller didn't do those things, or that he didn't deserve severe consequences, I'm suggesting that people incite each other's sense of justice, without any of them sitting on a jury and enduring the presentation of all facts, or being a seasoned judge. Yet the same group of people seem to be exacting their version of justice.
Criminal code brought up because, as referenced earlier in the thread, certain facts and details wouldn't be made public in a Canadian legal environment. That law is there for a reason, but some may disagree with that reason.