Legalized robbery {an open letter to Paragon city}
By
Blood_Wolffe,
Posted on: 2007-07-22 02:50 in Roleplaying
*Hero walks out of a warehouse door holding a magic talisman*
PPD Officer: Where did you find that?
Hero: Oh, this? Found it on the ground. The Circle has a lot of them just lying around ya'know.
PPD Officer: Oookay, but just so long as you didn't take it.
*Officer walks away*
Hero: (mumbles) Well, its not like the Mage was gonna need it again. He exploded himself!
Global - @El D
Servers - Protector
Hm, I never really thought of it that way...
Good thing I'm evil. 
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
Characters
Dear Citizen,
We appreciate your concern and enthusiasm about Paragon City's new salvage policy. While we have no intention of reviewing our policy at this time you are more than welcome apply to submit a your query to your district representative council for review of submission to appeals processing filing center at the Peregrine Island small courts claim and notary office on 12 Rikti Swarm Road, between the hours of 9 and 11am, by appointment only.
Thank you,
Tina ~ HR
...and that's why, my friends, why the entire system needs to be torn down.
This is a new breed of theocracy, where instead of priests dominating the masses now it is super heroes.
Dig the new breed. It's the church of spandex folks, and it will swat you with a super powered fist if you dare to defy.
"All animals are equal, some are more equal than others," said the pig, and how very, very piggy you look in that spandex and super suit of yours.
Anarchy is the only solution, it is the means by which justice will be restored.
Anarchy is the true nature of all things.
And if we can't have revolution, we might just settle for revenge.
Rise up citizens...it's time to take this stench of a city down and bring a new dawn to the tired and huddled masses of Earth...
ANARCHY NOW!
* Chaos Red grins at his own rhetoric, belches out his last can of Mountain Dew (with a deafening roar) and then walks away knowing his work is done for the day.*
Wow...never thought of that.
*goes on a spree robbing the good people of Paragon City while masquerading as a hero*
*Drops loot on the floor*
Yup, it's good being a hero.
Dude, heroes have been taking crap offa villains for some time now.
Where the hell do you think they got those enhancements?
For those who don't know, on May 1st 2007, the Paragon City council passed, by a two-thirds majority, the Salvage Gathering Act. It's a supreme act of irony that this piece of legislation that allows heroes to "retrieve salvage" from criminals came at the day marked not only in our own nation, but throughout the entire free world as a celebration of honest work. In a stunning expression of codependency, the city council has finally given heroes legal blessing to take, by force, anything they desire from anyone they cross paths with. Unsatisfied by the steady stream of training and equipment, unsatisfied by land given to them to place their bases of operations in, unsatisfied by the right to invade private property, assault anyone who dares defend it and abscond with anything that catches their eye which the steady downward spiral of this city's legislation gives them the legal right to, the so-called "protectors of this city" have finally coerced and blackmailed the all-too-willing city elders into giving them legal immunity from outright robbery, into giving them the right to property of anyone they deem a villain by sheer right of conquest, by the mere fact that they're strong enough to take it by force. Even convicted criminals, released from jail once they have repaid their debt to society are returned their legally owned posessions. Instead, the heroes can now, with complete impunty lay claim to anything this piece of legal depravity allows them to wrench from their victims' cold, lifeless fingers, whether it's watches, jewelry, books, electronics, drugs, artificial limbs, or their own flesh and blood. It doesn't matter it was bought or stolen, it doesn't matter if its rightful owner hopes, uselessly, for its return, in a true return to pirate law, heroes can now claim it as booty in return to their services to be bought, sold or used as they now can. Paragon City is no longer a city of heroes. It is now a city where law has given individuals the right to be above it. It is a city whose citizens' safety lies on the whims of the select. It is a city where, on May first, two thousand and seven, the already thin, frayed and abused line between villains, and heroes on whom we so eagerly rely on to protect us from, has finally disappeared completely.
Quinch PG