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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (371854)	2/24/2008 2:58:53 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1586200

"You take what nce was the commonest method of legal execution in this country and turn it into a racial epithet!" Lynching is legal? Where?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (371854)	2/24/2008 11:49:15 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586200

You take what nce was the commonest method of legal execution in this country and turn it into a racial epithet! How imaginative! Peabrain, there ain't nothing legal about lynching......you and O'Reilly are so fugly and racist, you don't know any better: "Lynching in the United States refers, primarily, to the practice in the 19th and 20th centuries of the humiliation and killing of people by mobs acting outside the law. These murders, most of them unpunished, often took the form of hanging and burning. To demonstrate a ritual of power, mobs sometimes tortured the victim. The term "Lynch's Law" (and subsequently "lynch law" and "lynching") apparently originated during the American Revolution when Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace, ordered extralegal punishment for Tories (American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown). In the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people opposing slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the American Civil War.[1] Lynching became highly associated with Southern efforts to retain and enforce white supremacy after their initial defeat in the American Civil War. In their defeat, Southern whites resisted allowing full legal and civil rights to African Americans. The aftermath of war increased social and economic volatility. The formal end of the war meant that groups shifted to other means to try to resist Federal occupation and changes to the law." en.wikipedia.org