Re: [OT] Liberals was: Personal hoody-hoo

From: "Michael Llaneza" <maserati@earthlink.net>

> Someone quoted the document my .sig
> links to, the passage was " These banditti that spring up in time of
war
> are respecters of no law, human or divine, of peace or of war... and
may
> be hunted down like wolves."
> The respondent objected to the presence of the  phrase "hunted down
like
> wolves"

A phrase which has been in English law for quite a few centuries, as I
recall.  When someone was outlawed and "to be dealt with as wolves
are" it meant that if you found him, you didn't have to try to capture
him or go through the court system, you could just go ahead and shoot
him.