By Larry Klayman
Newsmax
June 15, 2017
Yesterday, the original Batman, actor Adam West, was laid to rest. As a young boy, I regularly watched the television series, which spewed both humor as well as humility and morality. And, years later, inspired and seeing myself as a sort of modern day Batman, taking on the forces of evil in a compromised nation and world and not just Gotham City, I conceived of and founded Judicial Watch, and later Freedom Watch.
At the time that I founded Judicial Watch at least, on July 29, 1994, as a trial lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor I believed that the court system, which was not as politicized and corrupted as it is today, could be used exclusively to fight these forces of evil in our society. But over the last 23 years, sadly I have come to experience and thus realize that only on rare occasions, as occurred in the last few years when I successfully sued and obtained prelimina