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Vigilante Justice Comes To Seattle

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Brett

The Rain City Superhero Movement has descended upon Seattle, Washington and is defending it’s streets from crime. Part of a larger national effort of real-life crimefighters, average citizens are donning costumes, capes and secret identities and are handing out justice vigilante style.

In two instances in Seattle this brand of justice has almost resulted in tragedy as super heroes have come close to being shot after being mistaken as criminals. Seattle police have identified nine individuals fighting crime, Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88, Penelope and Phoenix Jones the Guardian of Seattle.

Seattle police are doing their best to see who’s behind these super heroes and talking to them. They’re worried that these heroes’ involvement will lead to injury as they do their best to prevent crime. The police hope they’ll instead just be good witnesses in the fight to take back the streets.

According to the national superhero website, the characters don’t have to engage in violent fights to be a crime fighter, but should embody the values presented in super heroic comic books.

“Inspiration plays a major role in this, of course,” character Entomo wrote on the page. “You can inspire people to believe in a symbol.

“You can inspire people to believe they can CREATE themselves a symbol and embody it — and it’s not a lie.”

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If In Tennessee, Beware the Viper

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Brett

We’ve been fascinated by real life super heroes and we’re not talking cops and firemen. We’re referring to people who put on spandex and fight crime in the real world. A college student in Columbia, Tenn. is putting on spandex and fighting crime through his alter ego, Viper. While Viper normally reports the crime he witnesses to police, last week he found himself in hot water for violating a city ordinance banning masks in public.

According to WishTV 8:

Authorities say he was carrying a utility belt that was holding a screwdriver and wrenches. They say they also found ninja stars in his car.

The police let the super hero go, but encouraged him to leave the crime fighting to the professionals, the police.

While we normally have a net positive amount of new tickets in, this week we actually saw a decrease in overall outstanding tickets on top of the others we turned and burned for the week.

We closed out a total of 32 tickets this week and had an decrease of 1 more still outstanding tickets for a net of -33 tickets for the week.

Here’s where each of the Node and Enterprise clients stand of the beginning of this week:

Corporate Accountability

	Open	Pending	Bug	Inquiry	Feature	Solved
Corp Account	0	0	1	0	0	2

Of Note: Nothing of note for this past week.

Major Concern/Issue: Still waiting on the custom field weighting issue. The form generator might be a solution, but wanted to see if Surfrider has more suggestions before going this route. They also want more social network integration.

DSCC

Of Note: Nothing crazy to report from the DSCC, helped Jason with some account creation and roles/permissions. The main DSCC seems to have calmed down about email deliverability.

Major Concern/Issue: Campaigns are now the most vocal about email deliverability. Press releases not reaching press contacts have cropped up again as an issue.

Equality Federation

Eq Fed

Of Note: I continue help the stragglers with their switch over and we’re manually pushing contributions. Trainings begin this week for them this week.

Major Concern/Issue: The append script is still the big issue. I am going through org by org to figure out if it’s their data or the script itself. The amount matched is all over the place with some orgs getting 99% at the state and federal level and others nowhere near that.

EWG

Of Note: Pretty quiet, I’m going over to their office at some point to run Colleen through email list quality check.

Major Concern/Issue: Email, email, email!

Forest Ethics

Of Note: Just answered the new person’s questions. Corrine had her baby this weekend too.

Major Concern/Issue: Just answering questions for their new person.

Free Tibet

Of Note: Nada, they are happy as can be.

Major Concern/Issue: Nothing.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Greater Philly

Of Note: We can’t get a hold of them.

Major Concern/Issue: Both Matt and I have reached out numerous times and in numerous ways and they don’t respond.

HSUS

Of Note: Lots of work for James, we’re still working out the best way to differentiate their priorities especially when it comes to differentiating features and bugs.

Major Concern/Issue: Not a ton, it’s mostly tweaks to the organizing platform.

Human Rights

Of Note: Nothing of note, pretty quiet.

Major Concern/Issue: Nothing of note, pretty quiet.

LCV

Of Note: Being removed from reports.

LWV

Of Note: Very quiet. I helped the LCV NY chapter a bit with questions.

Major Concern/Issue: Nothing major, the do it yourself url shortener will go over real well with them.

OCA

Of Note: Same as last week – They’re time as an enterprise client is coming up, I suggest we extend it as a lot of their issues won’t be solved for a while. They have very specific membership needs that need to be worked through and the “form generator” should be able to help with some of this.

Major Concern/Issue: Same as last week – They are really into chapters and the fact the chapter field can’t be used like normal fields and added to a page complicates things. That’s been added as a feature request. They also have some long term event needs and membership management needs I’m helping them through.

Oceana

Of Note: Just helped them with some questions about actions and best way to submit tickets.

Major Concern/Issue: Working on their reporting from emails still.

Surfrider

Of Note: Sent on the latest version of the form builder to them waiting to hear back. I followed up with Mark about their listserv feature request. Still waiting to hear back about the form builder.

Major Concern/Issue: Listservs and preventing bouncebacks.

True Majority

Of Note: Nothing of note.

Major Concern/Issue: Nothing of note.

Cincinnati Gets A Superhero

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Brett

Like the comic book Kick-Ass, real life individuals are donning tights and keeping our city streets safe. Cincinnati has a new protector of it’s streets, Shadow Hare. We’re serious. A 21 year old man from Milford is stalking the streets making the city safe from the what we assume is the scourge of jay-walking, and littering.

Shadow Hare isn’t new to the superhero game having previous stints in other states and even being part of a crime fighting group. According to WLWT:

Shadowhare is not alone in his quest to fight crime. He heads up a group of men — and one woman — called the “Allegiance of Heroes.” The members communicate with each other in online forums. Among the members are Aclyptico in Pennsylvania, Wall Creeper in Colorado and Master Legend in Florida.

“I’ve even teamed up with Mr. Extreme in California — San Diego — and we were trying to track down a rapist,” said Shadowhare.

I’m glad our constumed crime fighters are keeping the rough cities safe. And of course in this age you can check out Shadowhare’s MySpace page. I’m thinking we’re going to have to make this a regular series.

Obama and McCain Both Want to be Batman, What Does that Say About Them?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Brett

The St. Louis Dispatch runs an excellent commentary about about Entertainment Weekly’s recent interview with Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. In the EW interview both candidates chose Batman as the super hero they’d most like to be.

In it the author Jonathan Keim dissects what makes Batman tick. He is in fact a vigilante who works outside of the law. He would be the first to ignore the Constitution and the rights it entails, but also does have a moral code and line of which he won’t cross. McCain sites Batman’s fight for justice against the odds while Obama mentions his humanness (he also likes Spiderman for the same reason). Both candidates admire a character for two different reasons.

Is this the comic book hero to admire though? As mentioned above, he works outside the law in an almost Machiavellian way. His is the law and enforcement we know exists but choose to ignore until it affects us. President Bush’s expansion of FISA, and the trampling of our Constitutional rights and due process are the real world equivalent of a masked vigilante. Both candidates endorse the FISA program.

Is there a better super hero to admire? One with god like powers who chooses not to abuse them? One that follows the law? One who shows human frailties? Green Lantern might be a better choice, maybe Superman.

My choice would be Captain America, a man who defends his country when needed and questions it when it’s wrong. A person who served his nation and inspired people not just in comics, but the real world, to serve as well. And in the comics world, stood up against it’s equivalent of FISA and National ID cards. Spiderman didn’t even do that.

Maybe the real answer from the candidates required even less thought and was whatever comic book movie was playing in the theater that month….

Which Superhero Would You Be?

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Brett

Entertainment Weekly hits the Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates with the hard thought provoking question, “which superhero would you be”. Overall, a nice q&a for both candidates about their pop culture habits, and some answers I wouldn’t expect.

If you could be any superhero, which superhero would you be?

Barack Obama: I was always into the Spider-Man/Batman model. The guys who have too many powers, like Superman, that always made me think they weren’t really earning their superhero status. It’s a little too easy. Whereas Spider-Man and Batman, they have some inner turmoil. They get knocked around a little bit.

John McCain: Batman. He does justice sometimes against insurmountable odds. And he doesn’t make his good works known to a lot of people, so a lot of people think he’s just a rich playboy.