OP-ED: The trial before the trial

A current media melodrama highlights our unwillingness to grow up
We have done it again. We have just found the perfect French fries to munch on with a thick mix of blood-red tomato ketchup and off-white mayonnaise. The entire society has found a dartboard to throw all the darts at -- a woman who was found in possession of alcoholic beverages and some other substances.

We must wow at the lady’s worth that we had to create such melodrama, pointing all our fingers at her to prove that she was guilty of possessing intoxicating substances. The mighty law-enforcing machine left no stone unturned to prove that this was a criminal who should be doomed right now.

Done. We did a lot. We had fun. Collectively. And the most unfortunate part was that the media acted like a bunch of activists in selling the private life of this lady whose crime, as the cases against her said, was possessing substances and alcohol.