🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <atkv8q$4egi$1@ID-149074.news.dfncis.de>,
 "phxbrd" <phxbrd@earthlink.net> wrote:

> "SteveR" <texdriver@attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:texdriver-037059.22540315122002@netnews.attbi.com...
> > In article <atj753$15040s$1@ID-149074.news.dfncis.de>,
> >  "phxbrd" <phxbrd@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > "az-willie" <sclaus@npole.com> wrote in message
> > > news:T79L9.50269$Y86.39481@news2.central.cox.net...
> > > > phxbrd wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >>=============
> > > > >>The ranchers had to start locking valves on their water tanks
> because
> > > > >>the ignorant illegals would open the valve to get water and leave it
> run
> > > > >>and drain the tank. Then there was no water for the cattle and they
> > > died.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >The nearest 8 year old child could have told them to put a
> spring-loaded
> > > > >valve in place for casual use.  Being gutter filth, they of course
> did
> > > not -
> > > > >not even in a desert environment supposedly jammed with pedestrians.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > ==================
> > > > I notice you don't address the issue of leaving YOUR OWN home and
> > > > property unlocked so wandering homeless people can come along and help
> > > > themselves to stuff in your house.
> > > >
> > > > But you think the ranchers should have to leave their property
> unlocked.
> > >
> > > No, dimmy.  Just their spickets.  You know, the ones out there in the
> Great
> > > Sonoran Desert, where locking away water is immoral and inhumane.
> People
> > > have been gut shot for that.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > In the old days of the West, no-one gave a rat's ass what happened to
> > the felons.
> >
> > Some things never change.
> 
> Felons are those found guilty by a court of law.  I believe you refer to
> 'victims'.
> 
> 
>

Don't judge yesterday's ethos by today's standards.

"Law" in those days meant vigilante justice in certain environs. It did 
not operate outside  government law, it operated because the lack of 
government enforcement.