I'm assuming most of you have, like me, given up on seeing any real survival issues on the show "Jericho". I'm still watching only because DD likes it. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, last night they had some bad guys harrasing the town and the townsfolk had mixed feelings about what to do with one of baddies that they had caught. The gamut ran from "string him up" to "give him stuff in hopes he'll stay away".

This caught my eye because I had recently read an essay on how vigilante deathsquads have been a necessary part in the formation of every government, wether it be democracy or despot. It was quite an eye opener.

To quote:
But death squads are rational, in their own horrible way. They may prove, as they did in Latin America, to be a pretty effective method of wiping out implacable enemies of social order and preparing the way for democratic and law-abiding government. In living memory almost every decent and legal regime in Latin America was preceded by a chaotic period in which ordinary men armed themselves with guns, said goodnight to their families, and went out in groups to kill some local dissident. That period was a bit further back in the past for the French, the English, and the Americans. But no nation can be shown to have reached the rule of democratic law without it. The work of the vigilantes is the hideous and dark crime that Socrates and the Greek tragic dramatists hinted must underlie all civilization. That crime is indeed a crime, and its perpetrators must stand trial for it, whether before God or some human tribunal. But it is possible that true civil self-government can only be established with its aid."

The article DID NOT give it's blessings to vigilante deathsquads. Please read it before jumping on me. <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Going back to "Jericho" and tying it into the Equipped boards, how would you handle someone causing violent disruptions to you during a long-term survival situation?

-Blast, finding something to occupy his time instead of pacing and hyperventilating