vigilanteism

But when you have a heavily-armed mini-militia whose members are on record as belonging to the KKK patrolling the borders to keep out brown people, that’s called vigilanteism–and worse names.

minutemen protest on campus « raincoaster 2006

Consequently, there was no "vigilanteism" in the strict sense as such, where normals citizens take the law in their own hands and act as if they had higher authority than they really have.

doggdot.us 2008

Just out of interest Gadget, does your force keep a trendline for vigilanteism (sp?).

“Two Years” for Jon Harper Killer « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Eight convictions in two years must seem precious little recompense for all those years of vigilanteism in the cold and the wet and the 700 hours of Parliamentary time which might have been better spent on solving some of the real problems that confront all our people.

Discombobulated Vigilantes 2008

Eight convictions in two years must seem precious little recompense for all those years of vigilanteism in the cold and the wet and the 700 hours of Parliamentary time which might have been better spent on solving some of the real problems that confront all our people.

Archive 2008-01-06 2008

But it was a very well done speculative work dealing with contemporary political issues and the possibility of privately funded anti-terrorist technology/vigilanteism (a la Batman).

I'm Ready for Ridley Scott's Apology Now 2008

A lovely way of seeing things, or the highest form of vigilanteism?

World Famous Design Junkies » 2009 » October 2009

And on a social front, last I heard, it's not 'women' that vast homogenous group of X2erminaphobes who frown on arming themselves to the teeth, it's the silly Canadian legal system that thinks adhoc armed vigilanteism is a no-no.

Happiness is a warm gun. LuLu 2008

Some argue that sites like this encourage vigilanteism and create risks for wrongfully accused or databased people; others argue they promote a false sense of security awareness (what about the rapist next door who isn't in this website's database?)

Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives 2006

The "engine" refers to distributed vigilanteism, where multiple participants collaborate in bringing what they see as justice to a bad situation.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Fearing the human flesh search engine 2008