[rollei_list] Re: WARNING about Dr. Mark Meijer c/o Global RolleiClub
- From: Bob Shell <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:00:58 -0400
On Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Ruddy Roye wrote:
Since I am very new with a lot of emphasis on the very new part, I
would ask that allusions to something as vile to black folks as
lynching should be sensitively used on a blog as open as this one.
Just saying. No offense towards you Doug--just asking
"Vigilantism, or summary justice, has a long history, but the term
lynch law originated during the American Revolution with Col. Charles
Lynch and his Virginia associates, who responded to unsettled times by
making their own rules for confronting Tories and criminal elements.
"Lynching" found an easy acceptance as the nation expanded. Raw
frontier conditions encouraged swift punishment for real, imagined, or
anticipated criminal behavior. Historically, social control has been an
essential aspect of mob rule."
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