This won't be popular

I know this won't be a popular response at all.  

But since most who view my blog know where I stand with stuff like this anyway, it won't be surprising.

I get that the terror perpetuated at the Boston Marathon this past week ripped into people's lives in a way that was so violent, so viscous. 

I had family there. I wasn't emotionally removed.

The immediate response of the people right there should make us all proud to not only be American, but even human... in spite of the worst human-ness displayed just seconds prior.  Extremes, true.  But both very very human, and both each of us is very capable of.  I'll say that again, every one of us is capable of.  Anyone who denies it is lying or really really naive.

Everyone wants to admit we are all capable of greatness.

But no one wants to admit that we are capable of horrific acts.

So then the lynch mob forms. Because that deflects the attention away from ourselves long enough to not have to look in the mirror. Today's lynch mob involves social media of course.

I actually unfriended someone because every single hourly post there was some sort of hate stated over it. I don't need that, nobody needs that.  I choose light, out in the open, no shame, comfortable with Christ around if He were sort of posts. Not dark, angry, growling, fuming, making me want to smash someone's face in, or hide out in the dark and catch someone off guard sort of posts.  I don't care what someone has done, it does NOT give me or anyone else the right to go all vigilante crazy wild on anyone.  For multiple reasons, but mostly because what if that wasn't who really did it?  I'm not even referring to this particular crime anymore, but in general.  I mean seriously, what happened to innocent until proven guilty?  That's clearly been thrown out the window in this country.

And before you all go thinking I believe the claim they were framed... um, I haven't even read anything but the headline.  I'm not interested.  Because I thought and felt this before I even saw the headline.  I refuse to read about the supposed "partying"... why are we glorifying them again??

Keep reporting about the people who helped.  I'll read that.

I get that justice is necessary, desperately needed.  But there's an appropriate justice, and then there's a moronic botching it up so it's not even justice sort of "justice."  I really don't want to see us go there.

And here's the really unpopular part.

My heart breaks for all the families and people affected that day.

ALL of them.

You read that right.