[Poincare]

A few freepers seem to believe that vigilantism is a good thing.

It's all in the definition. If vigilantism is a mindless angry lynch mob, as Hollywood defines it, then it is bad. If vigilantism is committees of citizens deliberatively bringing law and order and safety to an area without law and order and safety, as in many instances of American history, then it is good.

[BenLurkin]

Too many people are unaware that the Committees of Vigilance in California were ad hoc tribunals established by the citizenry in the absence of effective law enforcement.