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Archive for February, 2008

Volunteer is such a nicer word than Vigilante

Posted: Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 @ 12:42 am in My City | No Comments »

Whenever we hear the word ‘vigilante’ it surely must evoke images of Charles Bronson wandering the streets at night, single-handedly eliminating crime in the movie “Death Wish”.  While the legal definition of the word does mean ‘to take the law into one’s own hands’, the word comes from the Spanish term for ‘watchman’ or ‘guard’.  [...]