Is Vigilante Justice Wrong? Is vigilante justice wrong?  Is taking justice into your own hands the right thing to do? If you watch movies you will typically only see vigilantes placed in a good light.  Batman, Kick Ass and Dexter are all placed in a good light, a justified light. Vigilante justice is when someone take the law into their ... Read More »

Manuel Pardo Jr. is not your typical vigilante.  Unlike some vigilantes that are looked at as heroes, Pardo does not fit that description.  Manuel Pardo was executed at 7:47 p.m. on December 11, 2012 in Florida.  So why was he sentenced to death? Pardo’s was a former Boy Scout and Navy Veteran. Pardo later becomes a law enforcement officer in 1978 ... Read More »

The Bald Knobbers were one of the earliest documented vigilante groups documented though I am sure there have been many groups before the Bald Knobbers that were undocumented. The Ozarks in southern Missouri became very under populated after the civil war.  It is reported that the population of Taney County went from population of approximately 3,500 before the civil war ... Read More »

Bernhard Goetz became a real life vigilante in 1984 after first being assaulted in 1981.  Ya see Goetz was assaulted by three teenagers in a subway in 1981.  Goetz came away with a knee injury after the attack and two of the attackers escaped.  The one attacker that was caught spent only a few hours in the police station before ... Read More »

Vigilante Movies have been around for years and for good reason.  We love watching the bad guy get what he has coming to him.  It’s the situation where law enforcement just can’t help or won’t help and someone has to take the law or  justice into their own hands. There are a variety of stories that can be told about ... Read More »

Hundreds of vigilantes took over the town of Tierra Colorada located in the Mexican state of Guerrero on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in response to the killing of a vigilante leader Guadalupe Quinonez.  The masked armed vigilantes detained 12 police officers and 6 civilians and a security director after occupying the town of nearly 20,000 people. The vigilantes belong to ... Read More »

Newsday reports that 2 alleged thieves were lynched in the town of Samanod which is approximately 55 miles north of Cairo in the Nile Delta providence of Gharbiya.  Egyptian vigilantes caught the two men accused of stealing on March 17, 2013, beat them and then hung them by their feet while an angry crowd yelled repeatedly to kill them.  According ... Read More »