On the contrary, as this is being written, JoAnn McGuckin is electing to remain in jail rather than sign a Judge's order that she not contact her children. Yet no charges against this woman have been proved. Their mother had been lured out of the house by promises of food and then whisked off to jail. No wonder the children were terrified. Thirty or forty years ago the American public would have been in outrage, crying for justice.
Public outrage is dead.
No, public outrage didn't die at Sagle, Idaho. It was severely wounded at Ruby Ridge. It suffered burns at Waco. But it died in the bombing at Oklahoma City. Only the memorial service seems to have been in Idaho, attended by a few people who still care what happens to the innocents whose constitutional rights are violated.