It was a painful picture. A full adult male been beaten naked in public. No, he was not caught stealing, he was driving a LAGBUS. His offense was that he had hit a car owned by a soldier near a barracks. They meted out their form of justice on him.
A bit pathetic is that the crowd gathered around urged the soldiers on. 'Yes, beat him', 'that's how they are', 'another hit a car before me and ran away'.
What we should collectively deplore, we now hail. Perhaps if our country did not fail in its service to defend justice we might not take up the tools of justice ourselves.
When the ideal becomes impossible, the obvious takes place.
Let's return to righteousness & justice, then perhaps we won't see grown-up men stripped naked on the streets.
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