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@LTC David Brown First... I don't know why your name won't come up when I tag you... maybe they are trying to keep our comments apart...Lol.

I agree that "Vile emails sent to judge in Kyle Rittenhouse case reveal threats" is totally WRONG! No one should be threatened like he has been. I hope the duffuses who sent the e-mails with their address on it are brought to justice to the full extent of what the law allows.
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LTC David Brown
LTC David Brown
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I have no idea either SGT Charlie Lee.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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About as bad as the phone call a senator from the state of Michigan has been getting, only he's been receiving death threats LTC David Brown
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SPC Kevin Ford
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I don't know enough about his views to say he is a white supremacist. I do feel comfortable calling him a vigilante.
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1LT William Clardy
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I have to ask, SPC Kevin Ford: How much do you know about the history of committees of vigilance?
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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LTC David Brown Cambridge has the definition of a vigilante as:

"a person who tries in an unofficial way to prevent crime, or to catch and punish someone who has committed a crime, especially because they do not think that official organizations, such as the police, are controlling crime effectively. Vigilantes usually join together to form groups."

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vigilante

That pretty effectively explants why he was there in the first place. I don't think he went there specifically to kill people either. But, it wasn't the end result that makes me refer to him as such. Like so many other cases where untrained, without legal authority and armed vigilantes are running around, it can take an already tense situation and light a match to it.
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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1LT William Clardy I didn't really until you mentioned them and I looked them up. Apparently there is a historical link between vigilantism and racism. I'm not sure that one point is enough to conclude he is (unlike being a member of the KKK where the group has a clear and stated position in racism) but it certainly does give a single point pushing in that direction.
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1LT William Clardy
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Not everything harsh is racist, SPC Kevin Ford.
You might also want to look up the committees which formed farther west, especially in the Gold Rush days. I think San Francisco had a few and, as best I can recall from a college class on the legal history of California, they were a not-uncommon response to a legal system which had local trials always were on hold until the circuit judge rode in to town.
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