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A
feud is a long-running argument or fight between parties—often
groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds tend to begin
because one party (correctly or incorrectly) perceives itself to have
been attacked, insulted or wronged by another. A long-running cycle of retaliation, often involving the original parties' family members and/or
associates, then ensues.
Feuds
can last for generations. In areas without a strong central government,
the feud can be the only way to balance relationships between and within
communities. In
planning matters, council officers that are fed incorrect information by
their colleagues, or who inherit a case and are too stupid to question
the facts, can often go too far seeking to gain a victory over a member
of the public. The wronged member of the
public will naturally investigate those involved and the matter
becomes personal as the officers fight a losing battle to retain their
reputation and job, against multiple frauds, misdirection and sometimes perjury. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds of the taxpayers
purse can then be wasted, when the council concerned and its officers
try to defend themselves from questions as to the facts, which often
involves the council hiding evidence and nursing lies. The
deception may or may not be discovered, as in the Welwyn
Hatfield City Garden case and the Kelly
Davis v Bath and North East Somerset Council. In
a case in Sussex, Wealden
District Council argued for over 20 year that the electricity
generating buildings at Herstmonceux was a pump house. That lie was
finally quashed in 1999 with a report
that confirmed the deception by George
White and Thomas
Hoy in 1987 before Inspector
Raymond Dannreuther. But in 2018 this council are still at it,
trying to poison the water
supply of their long-term adversary. It
is alleged that the Valuation
Office have long been supporting Wealden in this charade, seeking to
defraud the occupiers by obtaining rates for a property that cannot be
used lawfully, hence causing loss contrary to the Fraud
Act 2006. V
for Vendetta - Warner Borthers movie 2005 A
blood feud is a feud with a cycle of retaliatory violence, with
the relatives of someone who has been killed or otherwise wronged
seeking vengeance by killing or otherwise physically punishing the
culprits or their relatives. Historically, the word vendetta
has been used to mean a blood feud. The word is Italian,
and originates from the Latin
vindicta, "vengeance."
In modern times, the word is sometimes extended to mean any other
long-standing feud, not necessarily involving bloodshed. The
Donnelly-Lucan community feud
Hatfield-McCoy
feud
Percy-Neville
feud
The
Clanton/McLaury
- Earp feud
The
Campbell-MacDonald
feud (Massacre
of Glencoe)
The
Lancaster
- York feud
The
Montagues
and the Capulets
from Romeo
and Juliet Originally,
a vendetta was a blood feud between two families where kinsmen of the
victim intended to avenge his or her death by killing either those
responsible for the killing or some of their relatives. The
responsibility to maintain the vendetta usually falls on the closest
male relative to whoever has been killed or wronged, but other members
of the family may take the mantle as well. If the culprit had
disappeared or was already dead, the vengeance could extend to other
relatives. The
Celtic phenomenon of the blood feud demanded "an eye for an
eye," and usually descended into murder. Disagreements between clans
might last for generations in Scotland,
Ireland
and Appalachia. A
similar concept existed in the Norse
culture with the idea of weregild,
which demanded payment of some kind from those responsible for a
wrongful death. In
Japan's feudal past the Samurai
class upheld the honor of their family, clan, or their lord by katakiuchi, or revenge
killings. These killings could also involve the relatives of an
offender. While some vendettas were punished by the government such as
with the 47
Ronin, others were given official permission with specific targets. Traditions
similar to vendetta have existed almost everywhere, as between various Arabic
people, Albanians
and Circassians. Vendetta
originated in societies with no central government (or where the central
government did not consider itself responsible for mediating this kind
of dispute) where family and kinship ties were the main source of authority.
An entire family was considered responsible for whatever one of them had
done. Sometimes even two separate branches of the same family could come
to blows over some matter. The practice has mostly disappeared with more
centralized societies where law
enforcement and criminal
law take responsibility of punishing the lawbreakers. Vendetta
is reputedly still practised in some areas in Corsica
and Italy;
especially Sardinia, Sicily
and Calabria, Crete in Greece,
in eastern regions of Turkey
and in northern Albania,
where those seeking retribution do not accept or respect the local law
enforcement authority. Vendettas are generally based on a perceived or
actual indifference on behalf of local law enforcement. Similarly,
honor killings are practised among more conservative
sections of Muslim
society, usually against female members of a family for perceived or
actual sexual transgressions. Mutual
vendetta may develop into a vicious circle of further killings,
retaliation, counterattacks and all-out warfare that can end in the
mutual extinction of both families. Often the original cause is
forgotten, and feuds continue simply because there has always been a
feud. Some
of the gang
wars between organized
crime groups are effectively forms of vendetta, where the criminal
organization (like the Mafia
"family") has taken the place of blood relatives. V
for VENDETTA 2005 THE MOVIE
Set
against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta
tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (NATALIE
PORTMAN) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man
(HUGO WEAVING) known only as “V.” Incomparably charismatic and
ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a
revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny
and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V’s mysterious
background, she also discovers the truth about herself – and emerges
as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to bring freedom and
justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption. Directed
by
Genre:
Action / Drama
/ Sci-Fi / Thriller
(more) Cast
overview, first billed only: .... Evey .... V/William
Rookwood .... Finch .... Deitrich .... Adam
Sutler .... Creedy .... Dominic .... Lewis
Prothero .... Dascomb .... Delia
Surridge .... Valerie .... Lilliman .... Etheridge .... Guy
Fawkes .... Guy
Fawkes Lover
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