Of Vigilantes, Peoples Courts, ETC

From time-to-time in such diverse places as the banks off the Mississippi River (Cannibal river pirates), Gold Rush California, 1956 Hungary, the Highlands of Scotland the normal processes of law have been ignored to put-down gross criminality. In some cases the "authorities" were unable, and too often unwilling, to safeguard the innocent.

In some places citizens would take time-off from providing for the support of themselves and their families and would form up "Committees Of Vigilance" (ie Vigilantes) which would inquired into crimes, acting as police and courts, and "execute" justice, if not law' on criminals.

In some revolutionary times, citizens would bring alleged offenders to "People's Courts" which had some semblance of traditional law----Without the nit-picking of lawyers.

I do not maintain that the above two examples protected the "rights" of (Accused) criminals, but they did safeguard that minimum of ORDER as is needed before there can be LAW or the hope for JUSTICE.

In the USA of today, the lawful authorities have NOT maintained order or law along most of our Southern border. Those authorities have failed to use the civil police, the military and even the "Organized Militia" (Which is NOT the "National Guard"!) to maintain minimum order. It may be that is now the duty AND right of the unorganized militia (Being all citizens capable of bearing arms and self-armed), "Committees Of Vigilance" and "Peoples Courts" to maintain order AND safeguard-the-innocent.

The governments of Egypt, the Sudan, "Palestine" and other "nations" with Muslim majority national or local (eg France, Sweden and Dearborn, Michigan) are unable or unwilling to protect non-Muslims from Islamic attacks. Certainly the forces deployed by the UN and African Union have not been able to stop such attacks.

MORE AND MORE THE USA IS SEEING AGGRESSIVE AND VIOLENT ACTS BY MUSLIMS AGAINST THOSE WHO INSIST THAT THE LAWS OF THIS REPUBLIC, THE SEVERAL STATES AND LOCAL JURISDICTIONS BE OBEYED.

In fact, some might rightly claim that the Crusaders were such loosely organized and effective bodies of armed men, outside of the authority of civil rulers, who acted to protect the innocent and punish evil-doers. Although they were not successful in the Near East, that crusader spirit was key to the turning back of Islamic aggression in other places AND TO THE PRESERVATION OF CIVILIZATION.

I can think of some persons in the USA who might well be subjected to the authority of "Committees Of Vigilance" and "Peoples Courts"