At 02:29 AM 6/4/98 -0600, David Johnston wrote:

No superhero, barring Superman, ever got OFFICIAL support.
Officially, everything they do is criminal. Unofficially, the
authorities are gratefull for any help they can get.

Actually that isn't quite true.  Public spirited citizens in North 
America can wear spandex and make citizens arrests if they feel like it,

	Wearing spandex is a privilage, not a right. ^_^ It should be legally
banned from use by anyone other than supermodels and professional body
builders. <grin> Have you ever been to a true nudist resort? Think of
seeing someone like Colonge or Happosai naked, or wearing spandex... <cold
shudder>

provided that they don't use excessive force, commit breaking and 
entering, etcetera and so forth.  However heros who maintain a secret 
identity are legally troublesome because they are witnesses who almost
never give statements and never   

	Your statement broke off here, but the point is well made. This is one of
the reasons that police often resent private investigators.. they have some
of the power/abilities/privilages that police do, but none of the legally
binding restrictions. Police often find this INCREDIBLY frustrating, and
their anger at their own rstrictions can unintentionally spill over.

	Have you ever read the Supreme Court decision here in the USA concerning
bounty hunters? As long as their target HAS a legal bounty on his/her head,
there are almost NO restrictions to what a bounty hunter may do, short of
damaging/destroying the persons or property of uninvolved people. Under
current American law, armored vigilanties such as the Knight Sabers might
be in violation of the law, but if they simply restricted themselves to
bounty hunting, they'd be legally untouchable, for the most part. An
interesting thought. Altho there would be _sharp_ questioned raised about
Class 3 weaponry. (Weapons considered to be military use only, and
therefore restricted from civilian use and ownership.) Sylia's hardsuits
would definitely fall into the Class 3 catagory. (Mortars, full-automatic
machine guns, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades & other rocket launchers,
et cetera..)

Well, given the mess that the third A.D. Police commander made out of 
the unit, and the fact that Leon is apparently next in line (since he 
was giving orders to the entire detective force in Crash), it probably 
won't be long before he ends up in overall charge when loser boy is 
turfed for his blatant incompetence.  

	Possibly.. but remember, that idiot (who happens to look remarkably like
former President Bush ^_^) was installed because he was easy to control,
someone Leon is NOT! One would strongly suspect that if Leon were pressured
hard enough, he might decide to go out in a blaze of glory, blowing
whistles, revealing secrets, and generally revealling all of the facts,
suspicions, inuendo, rumors, and political dirt that a Chief of Police in
any Major city would inevitably have access to. And I would strongly
suggest that Quincy is well aware of that fact, and would make that fact
clear to the local politicians. Reminding them that Leon can't/won't be
bullied, and would, if set up to take a fall, drag as many dirty people
down with him as he could reach.

	Something that Leon would consider a suitable revenge.

You read Year One?  Bats had swat teams chasing after his butt,
hostile angry swat teams with lots of ammunition.

That's something we need.  Knight Sabres Year One.  Grand Mal was a try 
I suppose.  (Although I wish people would stop calling Priss a 
retro-thrash singer.  If she was one at that point, she certainly had 
changed styles by the time of the OAVs.)

	Granted, and Jeanne Hedge did something very nice along these lines. Give
it a read, I believe you'll enjoy it.

If you kill off Bats and leave the Joker alive, I'm afraid I'm going
to have to hunt you down and cause you severe bodily harm.

You call this joker alive?

Boomers are alive.  They are a specially engineered life form designed 
to hook up with artificial parts real good.  That's why they have goo 
inside. 

	Oooo-kay. Now THIS is a slippery slope. People (and biologists, and
conputer scientists) have been arguing over what constitutes ''REAL'' life
for decades now. And the only tangible results (aside from the academic
papers) have been the occasional fistfights breaking out between scholars
from opposing camps during their world scientific conferences.

	Let's not slip into that ourselves, eh?

	Ed Becerra

	"Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal.."