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

Yep. The post I was replying too *needed* correction. Hunting wolves is 
one of the reasons we have a society in the first place.

Laserlight wrote:

>From: "Michael Llaneza" <maserati@earthlink.net>
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>>Someone quoted the document my .sig
>>links to, the passage was " These banditti that spring up in time of
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>>are respecters of no law, human or divine, of peace or of war... and
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>>be hunted down like wolves."
>>The respondent objected to the presence of the  phrase "hunted down
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>>wolves"
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>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.
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-- 
These constitutional guarantees can not be estimated too highly, or
protected too sacredly. The reader of history knows that for many weary
ages the people suffered for the want of them; it would not only be
stupidity, but madness in us not to preserve them.

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ssionorder.html