Greenwald: The Lynch Mob Mentality
A very long time ago, I would be baffled when I'd read about things like the Salem witch hunts. How could so many people be collectively worked up into that level of irrational frenzy, where they cheered for people's torturous death as "witches" without any real due process or meaningful evidence? But all one has to do is look at our current Terrorism debates and it's easy to see how things like that happen.-
Labels: civil liberties, Glenn Greenwald, innocent till proven guilty, lynch mobs
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