On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 10:19 PM, Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 05:43 PM 3/16/2003 +0000, you wrote:<snipped>John G said:
> JDG - Who wonders if France would oppose Spiderman's unilateralism in
> pursuit of criminals.....
I'm not overly familiar with the Spiderman mythos, but don't lots of Americans oppose Spiderman's unilateralism in pursuit of criminals? He is, after all, a vigilante.
Rich
Vigilante : a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate);
In the comics I think spiderman was held up as a criminal himself. So what if some two bit thug was trussed up for the police, he was stealing to feed his family! or some stuff.
Just how did the authorities prosecute those thugs trussed up by Spiderman? IIRC, Spiderman would come up on some hood burning and pillaging, beat him up and leave him snared in a web attached to a lamp post. The cops would show up, Spiderman would leap off, and the cops would take the hood in.
How do you arraign this guy? I mean, the cops didn't see anything. Spiderman didn't hang around to give a deposition, and he sure didn't turn up in court later. What do the cops report? "A man dressed in a spider costume beat up and bound this individual."? And then, "Before he ran away, he told us the perp created a crime."
Not even the DA on Boomtown would touch a case involving a superhero.
john
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