While reading Peter Westmore’s “J’accuse …! A travesty of justice” (News Weekly, March 26, 2016), I couldn’t help but think of the “scapegoat phenomenon”. This is the phenomenon where someone is chosen as a substitute for sinners and punished to atone for their sins. This victim is taken to have expiated through punishment the “sins” of the others. We have Jesus as the most perfect “scapegoat”. It is an interesting p…