What if Josh Duggar is guilty? An Open Question To America

Subject: What if Josh Duggar is guilty? An Open Question To America
From: A Concerned Citizen
Date: 6 Jun 2015

Dear America,

What if Josh Duggar is guilty? It seems like a silly question when Josh Duggar himself is publicly admitting guilt, no?

What if his guilt or innocence is not the question? What if the real question at hand is: "Was justice done at the time of the incident?"

What if the following two things are true? Firstly, what if parents of young children everywhere, and people who disagree with the lifestyle of the Duggars, and people who think the Tea Party is a bunch of hogwash (to put it lightly), and people who think the Family Research Council is a roadblock to freedom would all tell you that Justice was NOT done? Secondly, what if people who support the lifestyle of the Duggars, and people support people like Glenn Beck and the Blaze, and support Ted Cruz would tell you that justice WAS done?

If those two things are true, then what if we are asking the wrong questions? What if the most profound question we can ask is NOT "Did Josh Duggar get what he deserved"? What if the most profound questions (plural) we can ask are these:

  • How did a man with a habit of child pornography get to be a State Trooper? (The trooper who handled Josh Duggar's case was that man.)
  • How could someone with a life so divided between wrong and right go unnoticed?
  • Why would such a person not seek help?
  • Why would his victims not tell?
  • What if the answer to these questions and more like them is this:

    Here in America we don't believe in our justice system any more. We now believe that anyone who does vile things and admits to them like Josh Duggar did should, at the earliest possible moment, be drug out into the street for everyone to see and publicly shamed to the detriment of them and their victims who now have to see their abuser's face everywhere.

    I guess my wife is lucky in a sense. She was abused by a nobody loser who is still a nobody loser.

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