Trial by Crazy

Note to self:  yes, I may enjoy the occasional drunken or semi drunken explosion of a diesel bomb (ahem, not a drunken diesel bomb ... although yes, the bomb is in a distilled liquor bottle, but technically, I am the one who is drunken, not the bomb).  But, apparently, should I have the misfortune of being in any way near or involved in a massive blast, I must make sure I don't own anything remotely incendiary.

Why?  Because we live in a world where being a little off, being a talker and enjoying watching things blow up makes you a suspect.  Now, I don't know that he is not really involved, but was arrested on May 10, during that time he's spent 6 weeks in a police mental facility and is being detained now (in segregation).  The DA says he has not seen compelling evidence that the guy is responsible for the fertilizer plant explosion.  Really?  You lock a guy up for 3 months, paste his face everywhere as a person of interest in a major disaster, and all you got is "possession of pipe bomb materials"?  

Um, aren't those not too hard to acquire household materials?  Now, having a pipe bomb is illegal.  But materials??  For example, permanganate -- wikipedia says "Potassium permanganate is typically included in survival kits: as a fire starter, water sterilizer and for creating distress signals on snow."  

To many shades of Richard Jewell here.   

You know, we really have to do better.  Demand better from law enforcement, from news organizations, from ourselves.  Putting this guy in jail for three months for a pipe bomb (but guilt by association for the fertilizer plant explosion) is ridiculous.  Enough already.