This cries out for a Sympathy Meter. Sorry but in spite of the Vigilante justice - I just can't generate any for this Goblin. None. Whatsoever.
(This could easily be the U.S. in a few years IMHO).
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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| The Lynch Mobs Of Guatemala |
| 2009-12-18 |
| Stripped naked to the waist, she begs for mercy as she is savagely beaten by a lynch mob in the middle of the street. Alejandra Maria Torres was part of an armed gang that tried to rob bus passengers in Guatemala City. But as she tried to escape the passengers stripped and beat her before dousing her in petrol and setting her alight. Police put out the flames and arrested her. Her three companions escaped. Lynchings are common in Guatemala. In the last year, mobs have attacked more than 250 people, leaving at least 40 of them dead. Criminals are a frequent target but officials are sometimes attacked, including a judge who issued a rape verdict thought by the public to be too lenient. The practice stems from the civil war of 1960 to 1996 when civil defence patrols carried out many of the murders in the state-sponsored genocide of Left-wing rebels, many of them peasants. About 200,000 people died. She is definitely not Guatemalan. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 Ooh, Al Sharpton is definitely going to be pi$$ed at the use of his reserved word. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-12-18 22:33 |
| #2 This cries out for a Sympathy Meter. Sorry but in spite of the Vigilante justice - I just can't generate any for this Goblin. None. Whatsoever. (This could easily be the U.S. in a few years IMHO). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-12-18 12:30 |
| #1 Lynchings? But there are no black people there! How can this be? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-12-18 11:19 |