Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands Discussion

Luba · 11-19-2006, 10:49 AM

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/bc/ne...e548ad&k=70821
NEWS STORY

Grand Manan vigilantes found guilty

A New Brunswick jury on Saturday found guilty four of five men accused of launching a vigilante attack against an alleged drug dealer last summer.

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Do you think there is ever a good excuse for taking the law into your own hands?
Would you ever do it and if the answer is yes...what would the circumstances be for you to be driven to it?

Vautrin · 11-19-2006, 11:36 AM

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Do you think there is ever a good excuse for taking the law into your own hands?

Yes, because it is illegal often illegal , if you try to take care of a person. For instance, if someone is gravely ill / unwell you cannot depend on emergency services these days anymore. That means violating a few traffic laws, but so be it.

Medicinal use of drugs, most notably weed. It has been shown that for some people smoking weed, greatly reduces pain, and extreme side-effects of the medical treatment they receive.

As for killing people, merely out of self-defence. But that is allowed.

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Would you ever do it and if the answer is yes...what would the circumstances be for you to be driven to it?

If a policeman committed a heinous crime. They always get acquitted here if something like that seems to occur. Not too amazing, as it is a specialised police department, that does the investigation. Independent investigations have shown time and again, that these "impartial" investigations are grossly biased in the favour of the police.

Luba · 11-19-2006, 11:43 AM

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Independent investigations have shown time and again, that these "impartial" investigations are grossly biased in the favour of the police.

I agree.

TKDLady · 11-19-2006, 04:23 PM

It would have to be something extremely bad and involve my children. Sometimes the criminals have more rights than the people they attack and that just isn't right.

RandomSkater · 11-19-2006, 09:37 PM

If someone was trying to kill me or someone I was with, I'd do what I had to to stop the person.
If I see someone run a red light, I'm not going to chase after them and hold them down while I call 911.

I most likelly wouldn't attack a drug dealer...unless I had an M1A2 Abrams MBT...