Vigilantism is justified when the government has failed to enforce the law

"This town is too small for the both of us." If law enforcements fail to say this to crooks, then somebody better say it quick because crime-in the name of survival, vengeance, prejudice, and religion- is on the fast rise in this weary world. Resolve: Vigilantism is justified when the government has failed to enforce the law. Define Vigilantism- self appointed doer of justice Justified- to show a sufficient lawful reason for an act done Government- the offices of a nation/political unit being responsible for direction/supervision of public affair Failed- a state of inability to perform a normal function Enforce -To compel observance of or obedience to: enforce a law. Law-rule of conduct to enforce authority V: Hedonism Utility is the degree to which an act produces pleasure. Hedonism is the thesis that pleasure or happiness is the good that we seek and that we should seek. C: Civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the theory that one should break a law or rule in order to make society better. CI: The protection of the community and the citizens produces peace "Vigilante violence and lynching in particular are rooted in an ideology of popular sovereignty: the people or communities are the real sovereigns; whenever those to whom they have delegated authority fail. It is the people's right to take back that authority into their own hands. This ideology is the generally not anti-state, for: vigilantism commonly thrives on the idea that the state's legitimacy at any point in time depends on its ability to provide citizens with the levels of law and order they demand." Vigilantism is thus "often a vote of no confidence in state efficiency rather than in the concept of the state itself." Vigilantes thus separate the state from the community, the former's job being to protect the latter." Andrew E. Taslitz said to THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRMINAL LAW. This is where civil disobedience comes into play. "Vigilante action, however, also occurs even when police and courts are available if citizens perceive that the criminal justice system is failing in its responsibilities to punish wrongful acts. Some of these latter cases make the reader quite vividly understand the impulses that drive citizens to vigilante action. In one case, occurring in 1981 in a small town in Missouri, a man had, for some years, been terrorizing the town, raping young girls, robbing farms for antiques, and blatantly intimidating anyone who accused him of crimes or who might testify against him in the various trials in which he was charged with these crimes. The story includes a lawyer who was constantly manipulating the laws to this person's advantage. The police in this small town were probably also intimidated, and were unable to keep the man from committing crimes and intimidating people. One day, the man was standing watch out in his truck in front of the place of business of a grocer whom he had threatened with death. This proved to be bad timing on his part. At their wit's end about what to do, the townsfolk were meeting nearby, and a large number of them came out of their meeting to see the man sitting in his truck, intimidating the grocer. He was shot with several weapons and killed. The circumstances suggest that the crime had been witnessed, but nobody could be found, then or ever, to report what they had witnessed. The case described above illustrates a classic vigilante response to an obviously intolerable situation." Paul H. Robinson said at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW. As I've stated, when our government can't protect us, then we have all rights to protect us and/or our community. For without some form of vigilantism, we are unprotected to defend ourselves even when a court can or have tried. CII: Prosecution of a crime by a person or community produces harmony and pleasure Jim Handy, "In the process, Laura Nader has argued, the harmonic intent of customary law was strengthened. That is, communities she studied in southern Mexico consciously strove to maintain harmonious relations among members of the community partly because they realized that to do otherwise invite state intervention. Thus, harmony and the desire for community control over their own judicial affairs became mutually reinforcing impulses: only local control could ensure a ‘judicial' understanding of sufficient local complexity to guarantee that as often as possible ‘punishment' would fit the consequences of the crime, abide by local understanding of the severity of the transgression and, most importantly, facilitate reconciliation among the contending sides; only a deliberately maintained aura of harmony, created by both effective reconciliation and the concealment of disputes from outside officials, would allow the community to remain free of most active state interventions in its legal affairs. CIII: Civil Disobedience = a good measure Civil disobedience is rooted firmly in our history threw many acts of self preservation or community heroism. The Boston tea party, where we went against Great Britain due to the fact that they were not doing what was right for their people. In the long run, this form of vigilantism helped out Country. Then when Rosa Parks did not give up her seat because she knew that it was wrong for the segregation and the mistreatment of society, for this she created the beginning to help others who saw that they were being ostracized by their government, even when they were trying to protect them. The resolution only says when the ‘law is not enforced'. The people need to us this form of ‘rights' to protect the laws and needs of themselves or their people. If our government does not, then we have the right and the reason to go against our government when it is deemed necessary.