Posted on 04/14/2017 5:13:04 PM PDT by Twotone
Frontier justice was a staple of the Westerns.
In High Noon, the judge tells the marshal, Gary Cooper, he’d best get out of town before the villain returns, then flees himself.
Director Howard Hawks hated that film so much that he made two pictures as a response, with Rio Bravo and El Dorado both starring John Wayne as a sheriff guarding a bad guy until he can be taken away for trial.
With Rio Lobo, we still get Wayne holed up in a jail surrounded by a gang trying to bust out the boss, but in this one, Hawks gave the bad guys badges.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is out on bail, so we won’t be having any shootouts in his hometown of McKinney, a booming suburb north of Dallas, but plenty of folks thereabouts would tell you the bad guys in his case have badges, and that a couple of ’em might even be wearing black robes.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Tom Delay.....
More than a little concerned about his upcoming trial which has been moved to Harris County (Houston), a Democrat stronghold.
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