Unjustifiable

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"...demonstrations quickly broke into violence as members of both Friends of Humanity and the Mutant Liberation Front attacked one another in various scuffles all throughout the evening in various locations around the US, particularly in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. Police have attempted to keep the situation under control, but neither group has made it very easy..."


"... President Kelly's return has also brought on several questions about the Genoshan situation and now the current strife in the US has effected those negotations. Kelly has simply stated that he has faith in the ambassadors still in Genosha and in the American people to come to a peaceful resolution on the mutant crisis..."


"... in an extremely rare interview, Shaw told Rosetta Riley that, in his view, Mutant Registration was the precipice of the not just the new decade, but what would shape the way historians looked at the early 21st century entirely. He said that while he regrets his company in their involvement in Project Wideawake, he still supports Registration on principle, he just feels the federal government has very little in the way of resources to enforce it the way it would be needed to fairness and liberty for mutant citizens...."


"... soup kitchens across District X were defaced overnight with anti-mutant graffiti, much of which parodying the now famous MLF logo. Some of them even had their food stocks tampered with, forcing organizers to scramble to make up for the damaged food..."


"... found dead after the protests cleared out, with the MLF logo spraypainted on his back. Relatives and mourners described the young man as a positive force in his community. He had many mutant friends as well, who described his death as unjustifiable and proof that the MLF is as dangerous as those they claim to fight against..."

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[blackdarjeeling]

"Or he dropped dead in the streets, fucking spontaneous, and just happened to get turned into somebody's art project."

Which wasn't to say that any of those other possibilities could be dismissed, but they did nothing to mute Al's temper. However you painted it, somebody had gotten one over on them, offing the kid. It was just a question of whether it was a self-inflicted wound our not. Stopping himself from being pissed off at the idea wasn't worth the effort.

"Until we've got reason to think otherwise, the obvious story's all anyone's gonna care about. That's what we've got to work around now."

[nobodysweapon]

"Unlikely at his age, but not impossible."

Laura knew full well that the truth didn't matter as much as the lie everyone believed. She knew if she were to break in, investigate the body for evidence, track down the actual culprits, and provide documentation and clear evidence it wouldn't change anything.

"You are not wrong. But if we can provide proof to someone non-mutant that he was killed by someone X-Gene Negative it would at least cast doubts as to his death. Because... if I were trying to shut down a social movement, I would frame them for murder. Or falsify evidence of a child pornography addiction. Things the media would spread without fully investigating, and are not forgivable by most people."

Full balanced education, this girl.