[HOE] Re: Harrowed

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

> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 03:45:51 -0800
> From: charliechan7@redshift.com
> Subject: Re: [HOE] Re: was Doomsayers - now Harrowed
>
> hate to sound sorta stupid but maybe they had little flashy thingy like in
men
> in black. also these incidences would be few and far between. i mean th
agency
> could have used the he's insane tactic also. plus unlessthere where more
than
> one witness which could be passed to mass hysteria. everyone would
consider that
> person abit off and the only people who would listen would be the agnecy
and
> texas rangers and the epitath which became a super market tabloid so not
> everyone beleived it.
>

As far as I can tell from the books the Harrowed weren't covered up at all,
they existed and people knew about it. They just didn't dwell on the subject
for some reason. Hell, if the Germans required their deaders to register
annually, and there were political/ terrorist groups dedicated to getting
equal right for the harrowed (can't remember their name, they kidnapped some
UN folk in Cyborgs) then I don't think mass hysteria and denials from the
Agency etc would work.

One course of action I could see them taking would be encouraging cremation
as a form of burial, or having national policies of autopsies on all
corpses, that just so happens to require dissecting the brain - to keep the
number of harrowed down as much as possible, but doesn't explain how you
convince the general public that dead folk walking around is nothing
special.

David