Politics and what is left of the law remain the same now as then and the good guys are losing. Losing more now than they did then.
Isn't it past time for some street justice? Why not?
My Grandfather was a member of the KKK. It was a whole lot more about warnings and actions against people who would not do right. Beat your wife, hurt your kids, don't take care of your responsibilities or debts, generally behave in an uncivilized and socially unacceptable manner? You get a cross burned in your yard. Next time you get drug out of the house, tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail. Third time. Well, third times weren't usually necessary but they were the last time. No more warnings.
I am one of the few who remain that don't need to read history in any form to know about those times. I got the history first hand when I was a kid from people who were alive when it happened.
Pretty crude huh? Well, it worked. What passes for justice now isn't working at all.
Similar to historical (Sicilian) mafiosi, and probably anytime a group recognized itself as being under the thumb of an authority happy to let others do its dirty work.
***My Grandfather was a member of the KKK. It was a whole lot more about warnings and actions against people who would not do right. ***
I remember Deep South Southern Boys in my military unit saying the same thing. But there are too many self styled trouble makers who claim to be members but are not. They have caused more problems than I can remember and I still remember what happened to that organization around Tulsa in the 1970s.
My dad always cautioned me about joining ANY group. He was terrified we might get into trouble and end up in prison. His words have kept me out of lots of trouble. So far the only groups I have joined were the 4-H Club and the FFA.