There is no particular significance of X in witchcraft, save as a minor symbol or rune. Try again.
Really? Then you aren't paying attention to the digs regarding NON-pedo stuff. It's about money and power. The largest geopolitical retrenchment since WWII. You're freaking for the pedos, when the entire established order is undergoing a change that could lead to thermonuclear war.
Expand your goddamn thinking.
It is what it is. If you're looking for public executions, you're going to be disappointed. The most you might see in public are a spate of sudden suicides, heart attacks, strokes, and cancers. Public executions are disruptive. So are long, drawn out court cases.
It pretty much proves my point. Human social dynamics follow predictable patterns. What you are calling for would, indeed, lead to social upheaval and opportunities for bad actors to exacerbate the problem. It only takes a few surviving cells to do it.
The goal is the restoration and strengthening of the Republic. Not sating a psychological need for revenge and retribution.
Heh. No, I'm not Wictor. And it isn't off the mark. You can't have two Moral Panics going at the same time without civil war or revolution, ala the French Revolution. Those relying on the reasonable restraint of their fellow citizens are doomed to be disappointed in such situations. Marketers rely on the predictability of human social dynamics to the point of formula. You can't change human behavior. You might be able to handle the bloody justice you seem to want, but you are a minority.