To: brazzaville
True, but the history of vigilantism - shall we say, "justice" without law - in the United States is more negative than positive.
"Vigilance" is not the same as "vigilantism."
44 posted on
04/21/2005 12:34:26 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Pope Benedict XVI: The Rat-Zinger!)
To: Tax-chick
Good afternoon.
You feel free to call them what you choose, Tax-Chick.
If Minutemen are too violent for you and you don't like your image of vigilantes, well, label those good folk in any way that makes you happy.
Justice in the absence of law is more appropriate to my mind than your version, it isn't negative to me and the history of vigilantism includes the citizenry doing what is necessary to protect the community as much as it is about mob justice.
I would say that is what the MMP is about.
Michael Frazier
45 posted on
04/21/2005 5:07:45 PM PDT by
brazzaville
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