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  Vigilante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although in most contexts the term vigilante is pejorative, in many instances throughout history when criminals either owned or intimidated the law, where officials were corrupt or where there was no established law it became necessary for private citizens to step in and fill the gap.
Sombra Negra or "Black Shadow," a group of vigilantes, mostly retired police officers and military personnel in El Salvador, whose sole duty is to cleanse the country of "impure" social elements.
Vigilantism is the basic concept from which many contemporary fictions are derived, including stories published in dime novels and comic books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vigilante   (728 words)

  
 Vigilante (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vigilante continued to appear in the DCU until recently, having been established as running a dude ranch in Mesa City (the former home of Western hero Johnny Thunder).
Earth-1's Vigilante was revealed to exist in the pages (and cover) of the JLA issue where the superteam moved to their classic headquarters on an orbiting satellite.
Vigilante was voiced by Nathan Fillion in the episodes "Hunter's Moon" and "Patriot Act".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vigilante_(comics)   (1586 words)

  
 SAIC: Vigilante® Helicopter VTOL UAV: Overview
Vigilante® is an SAIC-developed family of small, inexpensive Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Optionally Piloted and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) that are based on the commercially available Ultrasport 496 sport helicopter.
All the variants of Vigilante have a maximum gross weight of 1,100 pounds, a main rotor diameter of 23 feet, an overall length of 26 feet and a main rotor height of 8 feet.
Vigilante are easily transported via trailer towed by auto/truck/van and reconfigurable for a variety of datalinks and payloads.
www.saic.com /products/aviation/vigilante/vig.html   (312 words)

  
 vigilante - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about vigilante   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Early vigilante groups included the ‘Regulators’ in South Carolina in the 1760s and in Pennsylvania 1794 during the Whiskey Rebellion.
Once authorized police forces existed, certain vigilante groups, such as the post-Civil War racist Ku Klux Klan, operated outside the law, often as perpetrators of mob violence such as lynching.
The vigilante tradition continues with present-day urban groups patrolling streets and subways to deter muggers and rapists; for example, the Guardian Angels in New York.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /vigilante   (246 words)

  
 Comic Book Profiles: The Vigilante - DC's Fighting Hero of the West!
The Vigilante was also assisted (or did the assisting of, as was quite often the case) Billy Gunn, an old man who is referred to as the gunslinger's mentor in current continuity.
The Vigilante has also worked with Superman (in an adventure which may or may not still be in continuity) and the modern hero known as El Diablo on separate occasions.
The Vigilante was also one of the relatively few DC comic book characters to make the transition to the big screen, in a 15-episode movie serial starring Ralph Byrd, Ramsey Ames and Lyle Talbot.
members.tripod.com /originalvigilante/vigilante.htm   (1736 words)

  
 The North American A-5/RA-5 Vigilante
The Vigilante was long and sleek, with a relatively small high-mounted swept-back wing, and all-moving slab tailplanes and tailfin.
The Vigilante development program cost about $200 million USD in contemporary dollars, with the pricetag of each aircraft rising to about $10 million USD, and the Navy felt that their other existing strike aircraft, such as the new Grumman Intruder, were more cost-effective for conventional strike missions.
Vigilante squadrons began to be disbanded in 1974, and by 1979, the Vigilante was out of service.
www.vectorsite.net /ava5.html   (4397 words)

  
 A-5 Vigilante - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Despite the Vigilante's useful service, it was expensive and complex to operate, and it was phased out after the end of the Vietnam War.
At the time of its introduction, the Vigilante was one of the largest and by far the most complex aircraft to operate from a US Navy aircraft carrier.
Although the Vigilante served in the attack and recce roles, its design and configuration was believed to be a major influence on one of the world's most famous postwar interceptors: the Soviet MiG-25 'Foxbat' was apparently heavily influenced by the A-5's design.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/A-5_Vigilante   (1077 words)

  
 Vigilante Man
Vigilantes have always been to the American West what the Ku Klux Klan was to the South: vicious and cowardly bigotry organized into a self-righteous mob.
The most publicized of today's vigilantes, of course, are the so-called Minutemen who began their armed patrol of the Arizona-Mexico border -- appropriately enough -- on April Fool's Day.
With a Vigilante Man in the governor's mansion in Sacramento, the next Minuteman provocation ("tens of thousands of volunteers blockading the Mexican border this fall") may prove to be tragedy not farce.
www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2005/05/vigilante.html   (1244 words)

  
 Vigilante 8 for PlayStation Review - PlayStation Vigilante 8 Review
A band of vigilantes, called, strangely enough, the Vigilantes, is bent on stopping the Coyotes by any means necessary.
The most noticeable difference between Vigilante 8 and previous vehicular combat games is the fast frame rate of the game, although the major explosions and other crazy onscreen mayhem can slow the game down quite a bit.
The one-player side of Vigilante 8 is short and easy, even on the most difficult setting.
www.gamespot.com /ps/action/vigilante8/review.html   (514 words)

  
 Who's Who in the Golden Age DC Universe: The Golden Age Vigilante
In the Fall of 1941, along with The Crimson Avenger and Wing, The Shining Knight and The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, the two were founding members of THE LAW'S LEGIONAIRES after stopping the machinations of the criminal mastermind The Hand and one of his hirelings, The Dummy.
In seeking revenge, The Vigilante was injured in a bombing arranged by The Dummy.
The Vigilante was thrown into the Old West, where he remained for 20 years until rescued by the combined team of the Justice League and the Justice Society, to battle once more The Hand.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Labyrinth/7393/wwvig.html   (636 words)

  
 Vigilante Network - North American A3J/A-5 Vigilante
The Vigilante was originally conceived as an nuclear-attack aircraft.
However, due to the changing roles of the United States Navy and the Vigilante's unsuccessful linear bomb bay, it was converted to a very successful reconnaissance aircraft.
It was a Vigilante that first discovered the location of the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prisoner of war camp.
a3jvigilante.org   (361 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: Vigilante
A vigilante decided to kill the leaders of two dangerous gangs so the neighborhood is safer for children.
A vigilante could be either a robin hood-ish rescuer of the weak and destitute, a suspect-zero-ish killer of other killers, or a borderline insane killer of "bad people" (se7en).
Vigilante is such a stalker, did you see him in the trees with those binoculars?
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Vigilante   (234 words)

  
 Comic Book Profiles: Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. - featuring The Crimson Avenger and The Vigilante
The Vigilante is featured in the memories of Ted Knight as he reminisces about the original Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy.
The Vigilante and The Crimson Avenger (and Wing) appear with the rest of the Seven Soldiers of Victory on full-page that shows Courtney Whitmore (The Star Spangled Kid) reading through her stepfather Pat Dugan's old memorabilia.
The Vigilante's sidekick Stuff was a member (The Crimson Avenger's partner Wing was still an unofficial Soldier, because The Crimson hoped his friend would follow a different path than he had.
members.tripod.com /originalvigilante/starsandstripe1.htm   (442 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/vigilanteband
VIGILANTE is born of the initiative that for years Rodrigo Ramírez and Iván Muñoz had for creating a musical project that could join their passion for the Electronic, Metal and the Industrial genre, with a strong and direct message that could wake up conscience among people.
During the year 2004 this project emerges and Mario Chacana joins, in the electronic percussion, adding the force and the passion that VIGILANTE needs to be consolidated as a band.
VIGILANTE, more than a band is an attitude, a desire to change things, a demand for more justice, more eace, more tolerance and more courage to create real changes against the old and selfish society where we live.
www.myspace.com /vigilanteband   (761 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Vigilante
Comic books of the early 1940s were rife with costumed vigilantes, upholders of the law without official status.
He first assumed the Vigilante persona when he tracked down his father's murderers, wearing a basic "western" outfit with a broad, white hat, and hiding his identity with a bandana.
But "the" Vigilante of DC comics remains Greg Sanders, aka The Prairie Troubadour, and that's probably how it'll be for quite some time to come.
www.toonopedia.com /vig-1.htm   (675 words)

  
 PlanetDreamcast: Games - Reviews - Vigilante 8: Second Offense
The story thus far: evil Lord Clyde of OMAR is determined to crush America in 2017.
The multi-player mode in Vigilante 8:Second Offense is good, but the camera view is not.
Vigilante 8:Second Offense is a great addition to any Dreamcast library.
www.planetdreamcast.com /games/reviews/vigilante8   (1541 words)

  
 NEWSARAMA.COM: VIGILANTE JUSTICE WITH BRUCE JONES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Vigilante is one of those classic Golden Age DC heroes that keeps being reinvented for each generation.
Ours Vigilante is cut from a wholly different cloth than the other(s) with an agenda and vibe that sets him apart from the traditional superhero of the DCU-or any U for that matter.
NRAMA: For a title called Vigilante there is very little of him in the first issue, the Vigilante’s victims appear in the comic more then he does.
www.newsarama.com /images/interviews/2005/jones/Jones_Vigilante.htm   (1270 words)

  
 Vigilante downloads
The name "Vigilante" is a trade mark.(Well, at least, it was in 1988) The "™" symbol doesn't appear in the game, because I don't feel comfortable using a ™ that doesn't belong to me.
The original Vigilante arcade game, whose graphics I ripped, is copyrighted by IREM CORP, and though I doubt they still have a commercial interest in it, that doesn't mean it has become public domain or anything.
You can download and install none, or one, or all, depending on your taste and bandwidth :) If you install several music packs, you will be able to select the active one from within the game.
vigilante.free.fr /downloads.html   (558 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Vigilante: DVD: Robert Forster,Fred Williamson,Rutanya Alda,Henry Judd Baker,Vincent Beck,Don ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and some of the factory's other workers have formed a vigilante group because Nick and the group are fed up with the pimps, gangs, and drug dealers who keep taking over the neighborhoods.
The leader of the gang is caught and brought to trial, but due to criminally inept and corrupt system, the malicious mug gets off with probation, to which Eddie flies off the proverbial handle and gets himself thrown into jail under contempt of court charges (talk about adding insult to injury).
VIGILANTE is not the type of movie that will satisfy those who dislike violent genre films.
www.amazon.com /Vigilante-Robert-Forster/dp/B00005ASOJ   (2143 words)

  
 Vigilante: End-to-End Containment of Internet Worms
Recent work has proposed network-level techniques to automate worm containment; these techniques have limitations because there is no information about the vulnerabilities exploited by worms at the network level.
We propose Vigilante, a new end-toend approach to contain worms automatically that addresses these limitations.
Vigilante relies on collaborative worm detection at end hosts, but does not require hosts to trust each other.
research.microsoft.com /research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Publication&id=1483   (245 words)

  
 VARBusiness | Vigilante Locks Up Nokia Networks
Nokia and Vigilante, which moved its headquarters from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Melville, N.Y., last June, are working to ensure that customers of wireless networks, which are growing increasingly popular in Europe, are able to perform reliable, secure financial transactions.
Vigilante's independence was another strong selling point; it focuses only on security assessment.
Vigilante rapidly addressed the vulnerability issues and steered Nokia's security configuration in the right direction, allowing Nokia to fix and secure its configuration before shipping the product early last year.
www.varbusiness.com /sections/customer/customer.jhtml?articleId=18835376   (972 words)

  
 Can we contain Internet worms?
This paper proposes Vigilante, a new host centric approach for automatic worm containment that addresses these limitations.
Vigilante relies on collaborative worm detection at end hosts in the Internet but does not require hosts to trust each other.
We present preliminary results showing that Vigilante can effectively contain fast spreading worms that exploit unknown vulnerabilities.
research.microsoft.com /research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=788   (172 words)

  
 IGN: Vigilante 8
Vigilante 8:Second Offense will benefit from a multimillion dollar advertising campaign.
The sequel to Vigilante 8 will ship for Nintendo 64 this December.
Although the first one isn't even out on N64, the second Vigilante is already in the making.
ign64.ign.com /objects/010/010066.html   (322 words)

  
 Vigilante :: a 'v for vendetta' fanfiction archive
Vigilante :: a 'v for vendetta' fanfiction archive
Welcome to Vigilante: A V For Vendetta fan fiction archive.
If you're interested in submitting fiction concerning either the 2006 movie or the graphic novel, please become a new member.
www.piratestripes.net /vendetta/v   (568 words)

  
 vigilante - OneLook Dictionary Search
vigilante : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include vigilante: a3j vigilante, a 5 vigilante, john vigilante, ra-5c vigilante, vigilante 8, more...
Words similar to vigilante: vigilantism, vigilance man, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=vigilante   (199 words)

  
 Vigilante - Movie Info - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vigilante (1983): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
VIGILANTE reviews from the nation's top critics and audiences.
Vigilante - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /movie/vigilante/1037942/main   (151 words)

  
 Graduate Mafia Brotherhood of Princeton University: Variant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Vigilante is also known as: Dirty Cop
It is easy for the vigilante and the angel to give each other signals at night, so this was banned, except insofar as they may identify themselves to each other.
Also, it was resolved that, if the mafia kill the vigilante during the night, the vigilante doesn't get to kill.
www.princeton.edu /~mafia/v26.htm   (164 words)

  
 Vigilante Carlstroem - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Hives News: liveDaily Interview: Vigilante Carlstroem of The...
The Hives News: liveDaily Interview: Vigilante Carlstroem of The Hives.
Download, listen and watch Vigilante Carlstroem music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/vigilante-carlstroem/529164/main   (125 words)

  
 Vigilante
A frustrated ex-cop exercises his own brand of justice in the streets of a large city.
He joins up with a vigilante squad dedicated to the principles of "law & order." more...
Hit man Chev (Jason Statham) must keep his adrenaline flowing to prevent a lethal dose of poison from reaching his heart.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/vigilante/?critic=creamcrop   (273 words)

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