Sometimes vigilantism is the only solution.  My dad told me about a family
in the small town where he grew up, the old man was a drunk, wife beater and
child abuser.  They moved in and hadn't lived there long before the wife
started showing up with black eyes, fat lip, etc.  The kids would come to
school with mysterious bruises and never would talk about it.  The old man
started threatening teachers who threatened to call the local sheriff on
him.  This went on for about 4-5 months and one night in January/February
his wife was sent to the local hospital because he about killed her in a
drunken rage.  Word got out that night and my grandfather and 4-5 other men
from the area went to this guy's house, put a coat on him (this was in North
Dakota), tied him up, waited for the train to stop and threw him into an
empty boxcar and told to never show his face in town again.  He was never
seen again, they don't know if he left the family or froze to death inside
that box car.

To me that's justice.  Not like what happened here in Columbia earlier this
week.  A prisoner at the maximum security prison who was serving "life in
prison" for murder jumped a guard and choked him to death.  He plead guilty
to 2nd degree murder... on Monday the judge sentenced him to "life in
prison".  This makes no sense to me, this is also the reason I believe there
are trees behind the jail and the reason they sell rope at the hardware
store.

Lee