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Trial By Facebook
There was a time when I thought the “law” was fair, impartial, and just. Then I had my eleventh birthday. A glance at yesterday’s newspaper is an interesting study in the contrasts of how the “law” works. Some laws are ignored by District Attorneys (see an article on violation of public meeting notifications in the DFW Metroplex), people on probation are routinely ignored by probation officers except for collection of fees (see the article on new probation procedures in Tarrant Country), and “somebody ought to do something” because “a murderer has gone free,” or so goes the Facebook version of a murder trial which has made national headlines. Maybe we…