Talk:The future of the the Empowered/@comment-25625974-20141105130843

I think that I have made my base feelings on this fairly plain to see, but I shall put it in writing as its far easier for me to express myself in this way.

1) The registration of all empowered is a huge problem. It allows governent agencies and anyone who can get into their records to find out who we are. Even if the Government are not the ones to have done the attrocities to us (something of which I am highly sceptical of) the people who are could get access to these documents with enough resorces and will. This means that should any group ever come into any kind of power who wished us harm then they would have the tools to find us. I do not trust the government with this knowledge, but even if you do then do you trust all future governements? Do you trust the all secret service and police and whoever else will have these records? Because to give this information to put our lives in their hands.

Also on this point it starts a situation where those of us who are empowered are treated as terrorists by definition. Guilty until proven inocent. A threat to the world rather than simply a change or even a benifit. It places us in a possition of accepting this and thus gives legitmacy to actions of the government both past and present. This is not something that I am willing to do.

2) Tagging the released empowered has the same issues that I have raised in the first point and is a large step down the road to segregation and the crimilisation of empowered.

3) By the wording of what the governent that we have spoken to on this so far anyone with any kind of criminal record would be incarserated for the forseeable future. Also those who have ANY power which the government see as dangerouse would be kept. Now people who are already dangerouse such as murders who have now got powers do need to be thought about carefully. However the blanket holding of all with a criminal record is a mockery of our criminal justice system. And of the human rights which we all have. If we accept this then we are giving the government a legitamacy that I do not belive that they have earned.

4) I am truely unsure about this. It should be obviouse that empowered who do immorral things need to have some kind of punishment. However at this time I at least do not trust the government with any of us. I know I am not the only one to have been treated horrifically at the hands of captors and I will not hand back others to these secret camps to under go tortcher and experimentation as I have had done to me. Perhaps if all of these empowered were placed in prisions with open access by groups such as the red cross I would be more willing to descuss this.

In short my feelings are that at this time we have a government which has torchered a number of us or is at least complicit in that. They have allowed an agent to maintain his freedom after the murder of our comraid pulse and they criminalise us for simply existing. If we are to back them and their actions then we are backing a government which does not treat us as equal and who has broken a large number of human rights laws in their persecution of us. I am not blind to the issues that face the world now that empowered are openly known about, but at the same time I do not see backing a state which has a shoot first, torcher later policy as being in the best interest of any empowered or for that matter any non empowered.