RLSH - Mexican RLSHs?

[Omen]

Taking it to the EXTREMES: Vigilantes

Is this the natural evolution of RLSHs?

One thing this introduces, is the ‘cornerstone’ difference between the Hero, the Anti-Hero, and the Vigilante.

The atrocities from the Mexican Cartel gangs, wars, and culture are well known. The citizens are tired. People are desperate for heroes and yet there are no knights on horseback appearing in the horizon.

The darkness has bred a different and yet age-old type of hero… one that lives with all of the three basic entities dwelling within them. They started with the heart and intentions of what a hero was supposed to be, their environment pushed them into the actions and choices of that of an anti-hero, and their fate is constantly tugging them towards the depths of the vigilante.

This is a game in which victory is, at the most, gray and muddy.

What is it to be a RLSH in Mexico?

What is it when feeing the poor and homeless is not enough?

What is it when making a statement of ‘Right’ delivers death threats and violence to you and your family?

What is it when hope through law and law enforcement, alike, are questionable?

What is it when faith is not enough?

Are these individuals recognized by the RLSH community or ignored? Are they aided and supported or is distance and ignorance the best way to address them?

Is this a case in which the RLSH community view these masked individuals as criminals, weak, less-than, or wrong… because they are willing to wear a mask, carry a weapon, and use it?

Is this a time when cultures rival the costumes?

Is this a time in which serious discussion is needed so that the young ‘wannabee’ RLSHs will understand?

Just a food for thought.

Link: www.wired.com/2014/05/ross-mcdonnell/

-Omen, "Heroes aren't made during good times" - Elite Forces Division

[John Reid]

Thanks for posting this. I have watched with interest as Mexico changed from a democracy like ours with laws and a police force to keep order, to a country where crime became king, the cartels grew in power to the extent that they literally out-gunned not only the police but Mexico's army itself. I was waiting a hero to emerge, one who would stand up for the people and take back the streets from the criminals, one who would become a real life version of Zorro, who worked alone and in secret, but what emerged was not one hero but an organization, much like a real life version of the gang who served the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Everyday citizens in masks who by their sheer numbers would out number the criminals and take back the streets. What I did not expect is that the government itself, desperate not to be toppled by the cartels, would legalize vigilantism. It was the smartest move they would have made and now as we watch every day masked heroes are rising up and restoring order to the streets and succeeding where the police and government had failed. Not one hero but instead an army of masked heroes who fight for the people. What we dream of in our fictional comic books, movies and novels has become reality across the border.