Dartz Wrote:A bit of a law related question?
How would these people be handled by the local authorities? Would they be arrested and read their rights as criminals, or would they be treated as terrorists/enemy combatants? What sort of rights would they have and who'd be handling them? If they were just bank robbers who used handwaved tech... it's pretty simple... it's a crime. But now that Jet's spotted a catgirl, and 25 people have disappeared (And may have been murdered/worse)?
I think that moves things into "organized crime", but I don't know US criminal law well enough to be sure.
Ah, yes - I just realized that this bit of colour from http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/7476 gives yet another reason for Noah Scott to stop visiting the USA...
Dakota Wrote:Agent Smith wasn't a happy man, he hated the fen. While he followed the book it didn't stop him from taking any opportunity to be a total asswipe to any fen coming down. He maintained contacts within the airport system so he could intercept fen trying to squeeze into the country through some of the smaller airports.This guy doesn't seem the type to use an assumed (or shortened) name that a Fan gave himself if he knows the person's legal name, which would lead to this when Noah visits the old home:
Oh, great - the petty bureaucrat who thinks he's the bane of the Fen's existence was waiting for me at Customs. No choice but to speak with him, either.
"Welcome back to Earth ... Mister Anderson."
"Agent Smith." I sighed, and refused to give him a Keanu quote. "You do realize the simple act of our saying each other's names is a bad joke, don't you?"
After a few dozen repetitions, it just gets old...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012