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Of all the myths that are real in comics I did not expect "Sovereign Citizens" to be amongst the lot.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
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Because unlike civilians, supers can retaliate in ways that threaten state power.
Most supervillains that aren't Joker do not default to killshots from the beginning; some do kill, but it's not a matter of course.
You REALLY do not want to foster a legal structure that incentivises them doing this.
Furthermore, mind control is a thing in this universe; we saw it done to the Justice League.
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If you are a know bad guy who is know for killing people and are killing people when they try to kill you, what mind control defence?
You could argue the same for a suicide bomber or cults or religious extremists, just because a person is brainwashed it doesn't mean civilian lives don't take top priority over the killer.
They could change laws so "Wanted dead or alive" is back on fashion, only in the whole country. Or just apply old laws on the whole nation with small changes.
You could argue the same for a suicide bomber or cults or religious extremists, just because a person is brainwashed it doesn't mean civilian lives don't take top priority over the killer.
They could change laws so "Wanted dead or alive" is back on fashion, only in the whole country. Or just apply old laws on the whole nation with small changes.
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TheLastOne
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What they're explicitly looking for is a way of sentencing people to death in absentia. They don't care about retaliation, because they're EXPLICITLY looking for a stick to use against people they feel are to dangerous to live - that the worst case scenario is that they're alive tomorrow.
They aren't talking about general practice for what you do when you want to bring in Mad Hatter, they're talking about how they will peruse their already intended policy of, for instance, making sure Witch Boy can't rack up hundreds of thousands of dead children as a distraction. That the next time Mongol uses a Sun Eater to try and snuff out Sol, they can say 'This person is to dangerous to live, and so we're now pursuing every available avenue to fix that.'
Whether or not that's a good idea is a different discussion, but we're currently talking about how you sentence execution without trial. And the answer is that... you already basically can, with only a fig leaf.
Yes, because a few posts later, Zoat says he fixed it.
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Erm, no?
Both links work...
This is the "broken link"
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/whatis/uk-constitution
And this is the "corrected" one.
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Oh, I see. Well, they link to two different sites. Maybe the first was temporarily down?
Huh. Weird. Yeah, a few hours ago the first link led to a "this object has been moved" redirect which led to a blank page.
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Yes, the police have wide powers and are legally allowed to use lethal force on U.S. soil if the situation merits - but they aren't armed (edit: and nor should they be) with the kind of firepower that the U.S. military could bring to bear and which you may need to use to have a chance of succeeding against some supervillains, nor is the U.S. military supposed to be deployed against ordinary criminals by the civilian branch of the government. "If you cross the line we can shoot you with artillery" is a much bigger deterrent than the local SWAT is to someone who laughs at bullets (I am remembering the scene from the live-action Transformers 2 movie, where a Decepticon discovered the hard way there was a serious difference between "shot at by rifles" and "shot at by a naval rail gun").
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Changing it back.
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From yesterday's chapter:
I'm not sure if this is a Britishism or not. I think Alex remembers one or two Stargate characters using it, so it might be a military mannerism. But it stood out.
I'm not sure if this is a Britishism or not. I think Alex remembers one or two Stargate characters using it, so it might be a military mannerism. But it stood out.
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So, they are explicitly looking for a Worm kill order.
But kill orders are only justified there because Worm falls right before Evangelion on the Crapsack World line. They don't have the public support even with the Roanoake Island Incident to support kill orders, mainly because the Justice League is miles more effective than the Protectorate.
They also don't have the Cauldron level conspiracy needed to force it if necessary.
Remember, Endbringers are a Roanoake Island incident at minimum every 3 months.
Not to mention all the other bullshit that happens on the regular there. Slaughterhouse Nine, Nilbog, etc.
Endbringers aren't quite that bad. They wipe out cities of hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of people every few monthes, although in the long term they do significantly more damage.
Besides, Kill Orders have more to do with exterminating things like Echidna making lots of sociopathic copies, Bakuda threatening to blow up a city, or Amy going insane than with the Endbringers. No one in the world will complain and start legal problems if you kill an Endbringer. They might just have a problem if you kill the best healer in the world after she broke down and mutilated her sister, if she didn't surrender before you got enough evidence to get the order signed.
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What? Roanoake island only killed 300,000. How is that not as bad?
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
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Eight hundred thousand, not three hundred thousand.
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He's in a fairly stable relationship, it's not news that he's getting married.
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Not noteworthy. He's already made it clear he wants to marry her, and that he was leaving.
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It's a "royal wedding."
So obviously his "family" from Apokalips will show up, including his dear Granny Goodness, and the female furies, and inform him that their invitations must have somehow got lost in the mail.
That masochist Rorschach threw down an elevator shaft?
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Just zis guy, you know?
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