As for my blog? It's safe. I haven't posted any accounts of ability/promicin use on my part after the ban, and as long as I keep that up then I'll be fine. I don't know who reads this blog, or if anyone does at all, but to all of you out there with an ability, whether it was promicin induced or if your a 4400, BE CAREFUL. I know that NTAC has no interest in starting a witch hunt, but with the way that things are going, I'm beginning to fear that it's inevitable.
The 'be careful' warning brings me to something else I want to mention. On promicininfo.com there's a video of a congressmen making a victory speech, commending the American people (and himself) for getting anti promicin bill passed. In the middle of his speech, he began to dance around the stage, unable to stop. This was due to a promicin positive (Chris Morris) in the audience who has the ability to make people dance. It's a harmless ability, and the worst thing that could possibly come out of it is damaged pride. The people in charge however will almost certainly spin this incident a different way.
While the majority of us know that what Chris did was completely harmless, the anti-promicin people out there will call that act ‘a terrifying example of what these terrorists can do’. They’ll call it ‘mind control’, they’ll say ‘that if they can force someone to dance around, then couldn’t they also force someone to kill others, or kill themselves, or do any number of things?’ I know that a statement like that is completely ridiculous, but that’s exactly what they’re going to say, and in times like these when fear overrules logic and reason, the people will believe them.
So, back to the BE CAREFUL warning. To all of you out there with fairly harmless abilities, like Chris, THINK about something before you do it. Because even if you're only out to pull a harmless prank, your actions could (and probably will) be perceived much differently by the public at large. All it takes is for ONE of us to screw up and use our ability irresponsibly, and we ALL become the scapegoats.
2 comments:
The good thing in the Internet is that even though the PTB still try to control communication channels it routes around it.
We can still keep in touch through our blogs so that spreads it around.
It pretty much depends on how the abilities are used whether or not are percieved as harmful right?
Shawn Ferrell never got accused as a scapegoat since he was shown to be a benefit.
That's why there is a critical need for a place where P+ can train to find out all the capabilities that their abilities have and how they can harness them to be use most effectively in cooperation with other abilities
Having Shawn Ferrel open the 4400 Center that is very good news since after dispensation it makes the next step of having a program to certify an ability with a degree easier. Especially if you have a recognized place that's already earned some credibility doing it.
Most P+ can certainly benefit from training in their ability and having Heather Toby working with Shawn at the Center is definitely going to help in harnessing those abilities. To help matters I did make some school supplies for them to help show solidarity, to get them you can go to http://www.cafepress.com/giftedplus to show your support for The School for the Gifted P+
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