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

--- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:
> 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.

Point of Fact:	The phrase "dealt with as wolves are"
originated in Roman proscription decrees.

John

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