[HOE] Re: was Doomsayers - now Harrowed

["d_scott" <d_scott@ntlworld.com>]

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> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 01:32:35 -0800
> From: charliechan7@redshift.com
> Subject: Re: [HOE] Re: Doomsayers
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> to go off the subject matter abit i would like to chime in about the dead
being
> excepted before the last war. if you read the cyborgs book they talk all
about this.
> in the USA the dead did'nt exist and had no rights , that why they where
able to put
> so many in the blackleaf institute.in the CSA if i remember there was a
live and let
> live policyas in britain in other word you stay in control of your little
pet demon
> and you don't end up with a bullet in the brain. in germany they where
required to
> register with the goverment. in france they where excepted and walked
around in brod
> daylight and all. in mexico it slip my mind. also they kept the cyborg
program
> quiuet for som many year because of the zimmerman rampage where this
harrowed name
> zimmerman went on a rampage in malls of amerca before swat put a bullet in
his brain
> pan. the goverment did'nt want people knowing they where using dead for
cyborg cause
> of the risk that could happen with the public. that is all. please correct
me on
> some things if i was mistaken.
>
Yup, this is what I took from reading Cyborgs too. I think the point was
that the existence of the Harrowed was accepted, rather than that they were
integrated into society - being an occasionally homicidal maniac does seem a
bit of an obstacle.

Which brings up a point - how did the Powers That Be, the Agency, Texas
Rangers etc, explain away the Harrowed to the general public? "There's
nothing to see here, no such thing as the supernatural. And dead folk
sometimes get back up again. . ." Doesn't quite ring true, does it? Even if
they managed to make it something that people didn't discuss generally, the
major religions would be forced to have a view on the fact that death is not
as permanent as it once seemed.

Anyone have any ideas how something like this could be swept under the
carpet for 200 years?

D