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To: Responsibility2nd
Early Wyoming Territory (where I was born) is resplendent with examples of vigilante justice bringing law and order. Read about the history of Laramie. Law and order ignored it until vigilante justice came to town.

Wanting to keep a monopoly on law enforcement, regular justice didn't take long to set up shop. The pattern is repeated throughout history like the sun rising in the east.

35 posted on 08/11/2023 10:00:17 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman
Early Wyoming Territory (where I was born)

How old are you, and what's your longevity secret?

36 posted on 08/11/2023 10:04:53 AM PDT by x
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To: Vigilanteman

Where I was born they burned witches.

Not sure of your point.

We live today, where vigilante justice is called murder.


45 posted on 08/11/2023 12:36:13 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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In Argentina, the authorities did a genuine “defund-the-police” experiment, where the police were simply not present. The criminals ran wild, but not for long. Pretty soon, enraged citizens were shooting them dead and stringing them up. The criminals ultimately begged for the police to come back, to increase their safety.

The experiment was quite short-lived.


49 posted on 08/12/2023 4:07:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Vigilanteman

Another example is in Thailand. There are police there, but the courts didn’t want to do their job. So the police simply started shooting the criminals dead in the streets.

Justice, one way or another.


50 posted on 08/12/2023 4:09:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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