Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!jeffd
From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Flames and why not
Summary: Vigilance
Message-ID: <+UO1SV1xds8@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Feb 90 11:35:47 GMT
References: <11406@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
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In article <11406@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
> In article <GTL1JS8xds8@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
> >PS - The word is vigilantism.
> 
> No, it's not.  In the first place, the word you're thinking of is 
> "vigilance" which means to be alert and watchful. 

Trish, where do you think the word vigilante came from?  The Committee
of Vigilance, which operated in San Francisco last century, because
the local government refused to act against a gang called the Hounds
(the Hounds not only were involved in the usual dishonesty, but also 
persecuted the city's Mexican-American minority).

Jeff

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                     Thank you for not coercing.