If you want to condemn the innocent, it is extremely important that you give no appearance of impartiality, objectivity, or any recognition that you have obligations of fairness toward those you wish to destroy.

You might think that one destroys the innocent by carefully manufacturing false evidence or carefully rigging false testimony. But the Gospels and Acts show us that the innocent can be destroyed quite easily even when false witnesses are too lazy to make sure their stories agree.

More importantly, any careful attempt to produce an ironclad case appeals to others to be careful in examining the evidence and judicious in their decision-making. This is entirely counterproductive even if you could make an ironclad case.

No, you will be far more successful if you treat the accused with contempt, openly spread gossip, and make statements about his statements and his defenders which obviously begs the question.

You see, the only way to communicate the seriousness of the issue, is to show by your deeds that it is so serious that normal rules against hearsay and gossip simply don’t apply.  In fact, you will do well to simply invent a new means of gaining a verdict outside of the regular judicial process.  I don’t mean you should do this secretly; it must be done openly and shamelessly to work.

(In fact, when your victims don’t submit to your completely novel procedures, you should castigate them for blowing off proper judicial authority.  Again, you simply cannot be too obvious if you want to really succeed in your endeavors.)

You see, if you follow any normal ethical procedure you will attract the attention of those who care about things like a “fair trial” and what not.  These people are not going to be helpful to your cause.  But if you want to arouse a lynch mob, you have to hold up what will bring them to you hungering for blood.  And that means every sign of fairness is a detriment to your cause.  Every precedent you honor, every time you put together a tribunal that is not stacked, every time you refuse to justify your disregard for justice by openly assuming the guilt before the investigation, you are failing to call your sheep with a clear voice.

Do it right, and you will get troops that would make Osama Bin Laden jealous.