29532: walton (commRE: 29499: Hermantin(News)Crime wave provokes vigilante killings in Haiti village (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert <rawalton0@excite.com>


Re:

 Re: Hermantin(News)Crime wave provokes vigilante killings in Haiti
 village "Things like this will happen more and more as long as people's
 conditions don't improve.''


 In the 19th century American West, peacekeeping was often the province of
 citizens' committees.  Response to public need. Administration of local
 justice in the interest of maintaining security and peace is not a vice.
 It is the root of popular government. In the absence of a sheriff, or
 legal infrastructure, leaders among the people deputized themselves to
 keep order. Where there were no jails, justice carried out in the name of
 a community was often swift and violent. It was also an effective
 deterrent to crime.

Bob Walton

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