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Very simple: the striking workers were considered criminals - rabble that no upstanding citizen would want to get associated with. Today, they'd be called terro

• Ygg2 13y ago
  To be honest it was a high risk wedding. They couldn't just let innocent people go. After all, one of America's founding fathers said - "I'd rather murder trillions with my bear hands, than let a guilty man go free". ^ Note: Bear arms is not an error.
  • arethuza 13y ago
    Both John Adams and Benjamin Franklin appear to have believed in the "Blackstone's formulation": It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation Do you have a citation for who said your quote - I'm not an American but that really doesn't sound like something one of their founders would have said (of course, I could well be wrong!).
    • Ygg2 13y ago
      It was obviously sarcasm. The style, the connotation, the number (?! which is preposterous). I guess the old adage about sarcasm being indistinguishable from regular internet posts.
      • arethuza 13y ago
        Oops - my sarcasm detector failed to fire. BTW You may be thinking of Poe's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law "Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
    • JackMorgan 13y ago
      I think he meant it facetiously.