What's wrong
with lynch mobs?
The end of the cattle drive brings trouble as trigger - happy cowmen pour into Dodge City, keeping the local law busy
with lynch mobs and outlaws.
The Germanic law underpinning seems to be that literally anyone may, indeed must make an arrest,
with the lynch mob being at the less - civilized end of the continuum of detaining miscreants, and acting under the authorization of a justice of the peace being at the more - civilized end.
Not exact matches
That is what is wrong
with the kind of
lynch mob mentality we see today — blanket condemnation and then l.u.s.t. for vengeance (
with a vengeance) Duke U., the I.M.F guy in NYC, Casey Anthony It is actually (frightening) to see the cry for some kind of
lynching..
But what if an «aesthetic»
lynch mob enters into a war
with an «ethical»
lynch mob?
Once, when he was warned that a
lynch mob was coming to run him out of his home, he grabbed a shotgun and waited, saying, «Let them come, because some of them will die
with me.»
Just three years before Trice arrived, a white
mob in Duluth, 175 miles north of Minneapolis,
lynched three black men who had come to town
with the traveling circus, accused of raping a white woman.
Viewers will empathise
with her victory over nerves and a
lynch mob of bully boys.
Tuesday's committee meeting
with the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks will not be allowed to turn into a
lynch mob, the chair has said.
Is this genuine hate or someone who just wants to mindlessly be part of the
lynch mob and fit in
with the outraged social media crowd?
With such a venomous critique of so many beloved celebrities and widely - used treatments (even multi-vitamins don't make the cut), one can only imagine that Dr. Offit isn't making the rounds on a traditional book tour, where angry
mobs of chiropractors, homeopaths, Chinese medicine practitioners, and integrative medicine doctors would likely try to
lynch him.
There's a marvelous episode
with a plantation owner who is played by Don Johnson and looks like Colonel Sanders, an episode that includes a
lynch -
mob scene that plays like a «Mr. Show» sketch.
(Olive, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Cy Enfield, is one of the great
lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear, set in the disillusionment of the American Dream in the post-war years and dosed
with sociopathic anger.
The «crowd» envisioned by the author may be one of two crowds: (1) the
lynch mob running after a suspect, chanting «let's string him up;» or (2) the 19th - century villagers,
with torches in hand, running after Dr. Frankenstein and his creation.
With astonishing historical detective work spanning decades, we learn who was in the
lynch mob, how the
lynching was organized and carried out, and why the cover - up was successful so long.»
If the owner wanted to dip - out
with your money, why would he be responding to all of the
lynch -
mob's nonsense??