What about the poor bastard who had the misfortune to own the house *next door*, also damaged by these genuises?
You misunderstood my response. I was referring to the neighbor.
Basic reality is that I've seen whole neighborhoods destroyed because nobody had the guts to stand up to greedy speculators who buy houses to rent to trash in hopes of becoming rich through owning real estate. Don't ask me to feel sorry for them OR for a next door neighbor who does not raise his voice early on.
really? You'd punish people who were in no way connected with the crime because they happened to own property near the crime scene?
No offense, but that's insane. How on Earth can you hold a property owner responsible for the possible crimes of the tenants of his neighbor? How the hell is he supposed to know what goes on inside somebody else's private residence? A private residence that the mob is "pretty sure" where the criminal lived?
Say a crook robs a liquor store and kills the clerk. Are you going to beat up the shoe store owner next door in retaliation? That's just goofy, but that's what you're advocating.
This is why vigilante "justice" isn't. It cares not for actual guilt, only sating some bizarre bloodlust, and creates new victims along the way.
"Don't ask me to feel sorry for them OR for a next door neighbor who does not raise his voice early on."
Are you assuming then that the next door neighbor knew of an illegal immigrant situation next door? Which also assumes that the people in the rental house were illegals? And then you also seem to be assuming that IF the next door neighbor DID know about illegal activity next door, that IF he were to "raise his voice early on", that something would have been done?
So many assumptions, so few facts.