CowboyJustice.org is your snapshot portal to justice sites and legal blogs highlighting the actions of modern day criminals in all their forms.  Also included are consumer rights sites which expose criminality against the public by various companies for profit.

Even though cowboys were animal herders who tended cattle on ranches, also referred to as "wranglers", the term Cowboy Justice is derived from the American old west.  It refers to swift justice for lawmakers usually in the form of a hanging or sometimes being shot dead on the spot for wrongdoing like stealing someone's horse.  People who might have dispensed such justice were judges, vigilantes and lawmen who often came from the other side of the law at one time in their lives.

"Hanging Judge" is the unofficial term for a judge who has gained renown for punishment by sentencing convicted criminals to death by hanging, or perhaps other harsh sentences. The term is often used to demonstrate a desire for quick, firm justice and was generally applied to officers of the court with mandates.  Perhaps the best known of the hanging judges is Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903), an eccentric U.S. saloon keeper and justice of the peace operating out of Val Verde County in Texas.  He called himself "The Law West of the Pecos".  According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.  The good judge once fined a dead man in his "courtroom." After he heard the body had $40 and a six-gun in the clothing, he charged the corpse for carrying a concealed weapon and fined it $40.

Vigilante: a vigilante, meanwhile, is someone who illegally punishes a criminal, or participates in a group which metes out illegal punishment to criminals.  Such a person decides to act because he or she feels the normal road to real justice is nonexistent or otherwise tainted by a corrupt system.

Cowboy Justice Information and Consumer Links

ABAJournal.com:
American Bar Association discussion site for all things law, with a focus upon criminal law, comparative criminal justice and international criminal law.

AllForums.com:
Author fraud listings of various authors who fabricate literary scams with books for profit such as James Frey, Monty Roberts, Viet Dinh, Wim Dankbaar, Margaret Seltzer and others.

CitizensforJustice.org:
Legal blog and Justice Forum discussing cases involving the government, pharmaceutical companies and celebrities like Monty Roberts, the JFK assassination conspiracy hoax by James Files and noted JFK researcher Wim Dankbaar.

CitizensJustice.org:
Blackmailing and internet stalking report and warning involving JFK assassination author Wim Dankbaar and his partner April Kelley.

ConsumerDirect.com:
British government funded consumer advice service.

ConsumerWatchdog.org:
Popular consumer categories include insurance, going to court and keeping politicians honest.

Criminal Justice Degrees Guide.com:
Database of top police and detective blogs, law schools, courts and more.

DavesJFK.com:
Dave Perry's JFK Assassination pages examines various theories concerning the orchestration of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including the involvement of the mob and various other characters.

FameandGlory.com:
Literary scams listings for Monty Roberts, Viet Dinh, James Frey, Wim Dankbaar, Thomas Kohnstamm, Margaret Seltzer.

FTC.gov:
FTC Bureau of Consumer protection helps you avoid rip-offs and shows you how to exercise your consumer rights.

GlobalExchange.org:
Global Exchange fights for climate justice around the world.  They will be at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen with a Climate Justice delegation.

JamesFilesFraud.com:
Highlights important information surrounding criminal James Files and his JFK Assassination hoax story; involvement by Dutch author Wim Dankbaar.

PaulsJusticeBlog:
A variety of social and political commentary.

Public Citizen:
Protecting health, safety and democracy.

TroubleShooterJudd.com:
Consumer advocate and investigator reporter Judd McIlvain reports on consumer fraud, scams and consumer protection.

USAViews.com:
D.C. centered blog site discusses important social and political issues as well as scams and fraud.

USDOJ: Justice Blog: 
The Official blog of the United States Department of Justice.

The World's Leading Criminal, Terrorist and Conspiracist Requiring a Unique Brand of Cowboy Justice

Osama Bin Laden (also spelled Usama) -- His crime:  Murder of U.S.s Nationals outside the United States, conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals outside the United States; Attack on a Federal facility resulting in death; Mastermind of the 9/11 Attacks at The World Trade Center in NY, et al.

Aliases: Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, the Prince, the Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, the Director

For more people in need of Cowboy Justice, visit the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List.