SPECIAL REPORT - TECHNOMANCER BEHIND ATTACK ON A-TECHNOLOGIES
This transmission has been hijacked by your friends at Eyes on Seattle. This is a Special Report.
Sources within Lone Star are telling Eyes on Seattle, that one of the terrorists that attacked A-Technologies, was either a very skilled hacker or more likely, a Technomancer.
As you know, we here at Eyes on Seattle, consider Technomancers to be far too dangerous to be allowed even the basic freedoms, that you and I take for granted.
Mandatory cataloging and RFID tagging should be implemented immediately, for the sake of public safety.
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I really wish people would make a choice between hopelessly naive and stupidly paranoid and then stick to it. Really now, on the one hand, they're feeding us a line of bull about technomancers being able to easily bring a corp facility to its knees, but on the other hand they act like something as simple as RFID tags and a li'l ol' fashioned oppression is the solution. This could turn out worse than the Year o' the Comet.
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OK, there were four heavily armed runners with large guns and explosives. Check.
Now they may (or may not) have had a hacker or technomancer working for them. Check that.
And this leads us logically to conclude that... the hacker or technomancer they may have is the problem? Hmmm... sounds like you could take the same information and make an equally good case for gun control, explosives restrictions, or any other pet political project you happen to have.
This is like all the people who point to the crimes that ghouls commit and use it as justification to continue to outlaw the eating of human flesh. It's ridiculous.
Back off the accelerator there, Chun.
Don't get me wrong - I'm happy eating a little flesh (if you grep my meaning) - but legalizing consumption of human flesh? *shudder* That's seriously sick.
Just had to get that out. Continue your discussion of witch hunts.
Look, eating the flesh of the dead is doing you a favor. If someone doesn't eat your grandmother's corpse, a shedim is just going to walk away with it and go on a killing spree.
You're living in a pre-comet dreamworld if you think we can continue to hold on to outdated rules about flesh eating.
OK, can someone tell me how I got to Alt.Cannibals, and where the nearest off-ramp out of here is?
And Chun, Gun Control won't work any more. Everyone that's smart enough already has guns, and you can only have the "Gubber-Mint" to take 'em away out of cold, dead hands.
The Gun Control of Today is like in the Old Wild West: "Shoot straight and reload quickly."
As for Explosives Restriction? Well, that would prevent us from using "Plan P"! P for PLENTY!
I've heard that Run Run's serves a very nice people sandwich with a side of asian slaw and light and crispy onion rings.
Of course gun control won't work, I already have one. Similarly restricting explosives is a joke so long as step-by-step instructions exist anywhere on the matrix. That was for comedic effect mostly - registering technomancers is obviously about as effective as restricting explosives.
If technomancers are as good as people fear, they can bypass the restrictions. If they aren't, then it's pointless.
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Meh. Run Run's misses the entire purpose of human related cuisine.
While this is certainly before my time, this all reminds me of the event leading up to the Night of Rage. Dear god, does the older generation learn bloody anything? Some of these people advocating this insanity were likely alive then or were victims of it.
Its bad enough I've been *ahem* mistaken for a technomacer and had go all Escrima on a trio of morons. But you want label some people like this is old Nazi Germany or some damn place in the old Tirs?
No, Tigerfrost, (Meta)humanity doesn't learn. "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."
Well, check history. It's the same drek over and over again, even if the people DID know it.
The reason is that the old ways work. Those that feel small wish power over others, and the best, and easiest, way is to get the disenfranchised sheep to hate someone. Lather them up, and let them go, all the while feeling like a King.
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