Continuing a series aimed at understanding the operative elements of both good and bad vigilantism, when private citizens undertake to do the work of law and law enforcement when the governments under which they live…local, regional or national…either refuse or…
The answer to any conundrum begins with a unified theory The title is from a book published in 1960, while Eisenhower was still president, that title coined by a Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, a Massachusetts observer who wrote…
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – Thos Jefferson, Declaration of Independence,…
From an old grizzled veteran (my age) named Mike, who contributed a lot of wisdom to our Veterans’Tales site for a few years: You’re asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear…