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rachel grey

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Yeah I'm not sacrificing my privacy just because I was born different from your average homo sapien.

I'm not doing this to promote intolerance. Or, for that matter, to create an us versus them situation. In my world, I was shot trying to share the truth of my abilities with the world, and Peter's, and all the other ordinary people with the cabability to achieve the extraordinary. I just want to make sure that if you, or I, or anybody else in the Dome were to commit a crime, that difference wouldn't mean they escaped justice in a way your average homo sapien wouldn't.

Fantastic. So why do we have to outline everything we're capable of, make us sitting ducks in some big database whenever someone decides that they don't like someone they can just look them up and cut them down?

Didn't they pull a census when we came in? How come that's not enough?

I don't plan on making the database public. While I myself don't promote discrimination, I know others may not feel the same. I understand the dangers of a list like this, better than you may think, but I still feel the deterrent such a list provides to criminal activity outweighs the risk of someone accessing and abusing the information.

Consider that in most of our own worlds, or at least the one I came from, the police force and government had far more to go on than they do here. Fingerprints, dental records, police records, anything and everything that the United States of America and other countries would subtly monitor for their citizens protection... all that is lost, here, for those who came through the portal. All we have is some old books and discs that reveal possibly accurate information on some citizens, and is not enough to convict anyone, and people's unconfirmed answers to a few interview questions from when they first entered. I'm sorry that this change has to be so overt, but it's a system that should have been in place from the beginning.

Did you get the candy?

What's planned and what happens aren't exactly ever similar. I come from a world where the government decided to try and make lists like this. Then they started herding those of us who were different into camps. Those that resisted, were killed. I grew up completely stripped of my own free will thanks to mind control drugs.

Excuse me for not really looking forward to a repeat.

It's in the cabinet.

That's true, and I come from a world where there was a list that a private company intended to use for that same purpose. When I found out I could fly, I was so convinced if I went public about my powers they would round us up and put us all in labs. I promise I will not let that happen here, and even if the promises of a politician don't mean that much to you, at least give me a chance to prove to you that I'm not heading us all towards some kind of dictatorship.

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