Gotham Trial: Bank-Robbery

A Story by Abishai100

Two lawyers, one from Harvard and the other from Stanford, stand against each other in Gotham City in a landmark debate about bank robbery romance dangers!

Here's a media and free-speech comic book fan-fiction parable about the intrigue surrounding bank robbery romanticization in American journalism and media and why a debate in a televised arena in a symbolic American city might capture the symbolic weight of free-speech matters regarding crime reporting and society dangers. Signing off,

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The world was capitalism. Wall Street and the World Bank governed world governance. This was the age of Trump and NASDAQ and OPEC and wars over money. America, the world's unofficial 'Big Brother' of capitalism, had to maintain the customs and philosophy of socialized commerce and also deal with anti-capitalism terrorism incidents such as 9/11. The stage was set for an important capitalism ideology trial in America's Gotham City, where commerce created an aesthetic for fashion...and lifestyle.

The Gotham court trial to be held would host a televised debate and informal legal discussion about the ramifications of free-speech values in modern media regarding the presentation and controversial but undeniable romanticization of bank robbery. Banking was a financial system of federalism in America, conducive to private and socialized investments and savings, all routed in some fashion to Wall Street propaganda! The bank robber was an outcast and a rebel and sometimes a folk-hero in American journalism history. The Gotham Court Trial would feature two sharp female lawyers debating about the issues surrounding free-speech marketing of bank robbery matters in the news and modern media, since media was a hallmark of new age fashion.

This landmark Gotham Trial would be covered by the major news networks and magazine writers and society critics. The female lawyers on both sides of the conservative/liberal issue prepared their files and arguments diligently. The vigilante who always tracked the Gotham bank robbing team known as the Red Hood Gang was known simply as the 'Batman' and would be defended by the conservative lawyer Tina Fay, while the more liberal Gotham lawyer Christa Denilson would be advocating a more liberal stance on free-speech marketing of bank robbery folk-tales designed to offer Americans a special laissez-faire window into the natural rebelliousness created in the populace by federalism claustrophobia, a rebelliousness that dated back to the early days of American colonialism in New England and the Middle States arguably.

DENILSON: I can't lose this debate, honey; Americans love folk-heroes!
FAY: I'll be defending the tireless Batman in Gotham who constantly chases the Red Hood bank robbers.

Denilson was a Harvard Law School graduate and advocate of free-speech ideology in modern America. She was also versed in the history of journalism in the United States and was fascinated by the media marketing of rebel tales and bank robbery folklore and how such romanticism contributed to the circulation of movies about skilled thieves and the brave cops and detectives who chased them. While Denilson didn't despise the unusual valiant Gotham City vigilante Batman who chased the Red Hood bank robbing team, she did think this symbolic Gotham trial regarding free-speech values regarding crime-folklore would accent her career championing liberal values in modern media.

{Denilson}

Fay was the opposite of Denilson. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Fay believed in conservative values and a conservative approach to media management even in modern America. Fay wondered how we could sentimentalize crimes such as bank robbery while simultaneously seeking to be critical of other rights-related groups and matters such as the championing of NRA (National Rifle Association) opinions. After all, bank robbers were often armed with guns and therefore considered quite dangerous, so to the conservative lawyer Fay, simply romanticizing the Red Hood Gang bank robbing team would undermine Americans' interest in advocating the self-determination rights of the unusual but courageous vigilante Batman who tracked the Red Hood while working alongside Gotham police and detectives. Fay thought to romanticize the Red Hood Gang in Gotham media would devalue the heroics of the vigilante Batman and what he sacrificed personally to prosecute such crimes in America. Fay was ready for her role in this important court debate/discussion.

Batman was to appear at the Gotham trial, televised of course, alongside one of the members of the Red Hood Gang who was apprehended by Batman recently with the help of Gotham police and detectives. Batman would come masked and costumed, in case the Red Hood member who'd appear alongside him in the televised courthouse appeared as a grandstanding advocate of radicalism, masked and costumed equally. Batman wondered how Gotham lawyer Fay would counter the more liberal arguments of the lawyer Denilson, whom he was sure was prepared to denounce him as an outlaw-vigilante creating simply strange tides in media arguments regarding citizen obligations to deal with crime depression.

RED HOOD MEMBER: "Yeah, I was nabbed by Batman, and I'll be at this Gotham trial, defended by our lawyer Denilson!!"

BATMAN: "I won't allow Gothamites and media-men to glorify bank robbery, which often leads to murders."

Meanwhile, comic book writers had been sentimentalizing Batman and Red Hood playing out their cat-and-mouse game in Gotham City with colorful renditions of the hero and 'anti-heroes' in capitalism symbolic and federalism frustration symbolic/reflective poses. The Gotham lawyers Denilson and Fay studied and collated these society art images in preparation for this free-speech/media debate at the Gotham Courthouse.

DENILSON: "Your honors, ladies and gentlemen, bank robbers are rebels, but we honor the public interest in folk-diaries."

FAY: "To suggest that capitalism rebellliousness is somehow different from 9/11 is to undermine the overall evil of crime!"

DENILSON: "Americans love films about legendary thieves who defied the law to create storytelling in times of depression."

FAY: "Movies and stories about romantic and deified bank robbers only reflects our angst towards capitalism theory!"

DENILSON: "We honor and romanticize cops everyday, but are cops more 'human' than the thieves they track?"

DENILSON: This case is really about the contours of storytelling.

FAY: Storytelling is separate from journalism!

DENILSON: Americans want the right to personalize crime with crime stories and art.

FAY: The dangers of real crime do not warrant liberal attitudes towards objectified art!

DENILSON: We can not deny American free-speech interests in crime-storytelling.

FAY: The right to bear arms is a Constitutional privilege and is undermined by bank robbery romanticization.

DENILSON: The National Rifle Association is a conservative established group creating interests in more liberal voices!

FAY: Romanticization of bank robbery is not the warranted 'liberal voice' complement to the National Rifle Association.

DENILSON: We can't just champion the right to bear arms while denouncing a public interest in bank robbery folklore!

FAY: Isn't bank robbery folklore simply a personal expression of capitalism/wealth claustrophobia?

DENILSON: Isn't free-speech the arena for great dogma access?

In the end, it was decided that conservative Fay and liberal Denilson both offered substantive argumentation regarding the modern social weight and value of determining the contours of crime storytelling, responsible and comfortable journalism, and bank robbery romanticization controversy. Fay argued Batman shouldn't be the ironic victim of bank robbery deification if the Red Hood robbers he chased were true criminals, while Denilson argued that Gotham citizens shouldn't use Batman the eccentric vigilante as a justification effigy for denouncing the free-speech interest in exploring the public thrill associated with bank robbery, since after all, bank robbers offered Americans a strange but tangible living expression of capitalism depression frustrations. Denilson argued that Batman was indeed a heroic American, but Americans also cared about the personal rights to romanticize bank robbers in media, especially since other more fundamentlist countries would simply castrate and denounce all forms of criminals as simply outsiders. Was this a case about civil prosecution or social justice diarism? You decide.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)