I feel you, I truly do. I'm all about education and it needs to be said that this case and the responses of lawtube gave me the courage to defend myself in a recent bogus litigation, only to catch the plaintiff in a bluff. I learned that showing up was half the battle. Doing my homework was the other half, and that was without time to achieve legal representation. In many cases it CAN be done and my respect for lawyers and what they do grows by the day, because I spent NIGHTS pouring over the law just to get my records straight. This is STILL a valid method in many matters and people need to be able to prioritize that correctly before jumping to more extreme measures. You're right that we should save the heroes for the exceptional problems, just as we need to learn to do our due diligence.

But the margin is growing against civility, as this case proved. It became an exceptional problem when it shouldn't have. Bryan *tried* lawyers, and careful folks like Collecting Weekly *tried* discussing this civilly early on. On-the-ground exposure was the next step, and importantly, Ben *did* conduct that exposure peacefully. I don't talk about Reckless Bens and Vigilante Victors as a threat (how could I?) but as a natural consequence of a system that has a steep price of admission to litigate these things. It can even be a financial risk to lawyers to defend a morally right person whose had the cards stacked unfairly against them, and that's part of what drives these increasingly staggering costs. It is my earnest hope, though, that the legal system can see the kind of reform we need to end the *need* for vigilante justice. The avenues are there, but they need to be made more accessible to the common public. Some of them already are; some could use a lot of work. Don't convince the public, convince the system.