Let's forget the rule of law

We live in a democratic society that has the rule of law at its core.  So if someone does something wrong the police will arrest the individual, put together a case, take it to fiscal in Scotland or CPS in England, and that organisation will then prosecute the said individual.

Imagine someone has murdered.  The police come along.  They shoot the alleged perpetrator of the crime, then dispose of the body in the Clyde estuary.  Rightly there would be outrage, not least from the family of the victim of the murder who would have wanted the person to be put on trial to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the person in the dock was indeed the killer.

So why is there an outrage at the comment by Jeremy Corbyn that it was a "tragedy" that Osama Bin Laden was killed rather than being put on trial.  "There was no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process," he said.

And the people doing the criticism are not the ones I would expect to be doing so.   Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said Mr Corbyn was "utterly wrong" for what he had said.   Kevan Jones, Labour's defence spokesman, said: "This just shows you how out of touch he is with what most people's views are."   

Are these two people not the ones who are out of touch?  I think most people in the world would rather the rule of law took its course.  Not to allow it to do so just takes us to the level of those who perpetrate the crimes of those who would seek to destroy us.  In other words, the terrorist has won because we have stooped to their standards of lawlessness.

Osama Bin Laden should have been put in front of a court of law, tried, and if found guilty, be imprisoned.  That should be the way we do things in a democratic society.