All of this drama over something that happens
every single, freakin' day on Wikipedia is just ridiculous and (pardon my French) full of crap. If I were an administrator, I would have banned probably everyone who's doing the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the whole Law incident. Everyone's out for blood when it does no one any good and will cause more pain and suffering down the road.
The first and foremost goal of Wikipedia should be to the encyclopedia and the readers. I do not care if User:Fluffykittens or whoever is a sockpuppet/meatpuppet/handpuppet/whatever of User:StickyFingers or whoever. I do not care and I do not understand why anyone else should care. As long as the information is correct, accurate, readable, and (to some degree) entertaining, who cares who wrote it?
Has Law caused harm to the encyclopedia? Has Law misused his tools? Has Law driven away good-faith contributors? Has he alienated the readers? Besides coming back under a new account (an event that happens
every single day on Wikipedia), what has the man done? Has he recommitted the "sins" that banned him? Or has he moved on? Could someone point with evidence what terrible crime he has done to warrant all of this drama and the suffering of his friends and colleagues?
The people hounding him, Casliber, Lara, etc., are no different than that inspector who kept chasing Jean Valjean in
Les Miserables. All the meta noticeboards should just redirect to WP:GLADIATORPIT and we can all stop pretending to be professional, mature people trying to build an encyclopedia. Heck, it would be better if Wikipedia would just start all over and actually get professional, mature people willing to collaborate to build an encyclopedia.
"Come on, Arbcom! Finish off Law and your former colleague, Casliber! We've got more in the queue!"