Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who served time in prison after he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl, won his second match at the Paris Olympics and received an even harsher reaction from the crowd on Wednesday than for his first match.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    4 months ago

    What else should they be doing? Storming the court and dragging him to a lynching tree? I’m guessing the French wouldn’t be especially accommodating to such vigilantism.

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      They could have not invited a convicted child rapist to represent their country at the Olympics.

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      I’m guessing the French wouldn’t be especially accommodating to such vigilantism.

      You are absolutely correct!

      You’d need to use a guillotine.

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      Holding up signage, shouting rapist, turning their backs…there is a lot of room between booing and lynching.

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      Not putting him on a pedestal as a representative of your country would be a good start.

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      There’s SO many options between one year in prison and extra judicial killing. Like, in prison for 10 years, just off the top of my head.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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        I agree, but the booing crowd aren’t the ones that can put him in prison for 10 years.

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      Stop putting words in their mouth, there are so many things to do other than booing that are non violent but you just immediately took the most extreme possible outcome and suggested that was what the person you are reply to meant.

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      4 months ago

      i think at the very least he deserves an ass whooping. not trying to get into vigilante wierdo justice here but it would be nice to see one less confirmed remorseless pedo in this world since the system has definitely failed in this case.

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          ya basically but im not trying to come off as a edgelord maniac saying its the responsibility of regular people to vigilante this guy. itd be cool if they did but i doubt that would make the person this piece of filth hurt feel any better. At the very least tho itd be cool to see him jumped and every bone broken in his body and him then turned into a vegetable thatd be cool.

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            Well, I’m sure you tried. It’s still an edgelord maniac’s take.

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              l think its actually pretty reasonable to want a unrepentant pedophile rapist who has escaped justice to be served his just desserts. Im against the death penalty world wide because again justice isnt perfect and sometimes innocent people (especially in america and especially minorities) get executed. But in a rare case like this i think the gloves should be taken off a lil, but who knows maybe im just deranged.

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        4 months ago

        Really? You want vigilantism and lynching? Do you think that might possibly go wrong at some point?

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          I think it’s a little different than typical vigilantism when he’s convicted and demonstrably used his privilege to get out of it, much less when he’s in the Olympics representing his nation (of child rapists, apparently, thus the government officials defending his right to get children drunk and rape them).

          You are right that France isn’t the place to do it though, the French pedophilic cabal that has infiltrated the government is their Supreme Court.

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            “A little different.” This time. What about all the other times? What if it’s a member of the French supreme court that it turns out that, despite you thinking they’re a pedophile, they aren’t actually a pedophile?

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              I mean if they’re high in the judiciary they’re already guilty of something. It’s like billionaires, you know? Probably best to just get rid of the lot. Safer.

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                Or are they one of the ones stopping the corruption from spreading, but the lynch mob was convinced by the corrupt one that they were the real pedophile?

                Also, black people were regularly accused of that in the U.S. during the era when lynchings were common.

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                  If they’re in the supreme court, they are the corruption.

                  (BTW, I don’t agree with lynching alleged or sentenced pedophiles, just wanted to get in my little jabs at the court)

                  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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                    Seems to me like a supreme court is kind of needed. So how do you have one if everyone on it is automatically corrupt?