“Fictional” Police State
Posted on June 28, 2009
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“Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe Wednesday (May 13th), I was flagged at the gate for ‘extra screening’. I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then ‘discovered’ the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated.
“The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional) world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics.
“I cooperated politely and tried to explain to them the irony of the situation. While Unthinkable blurs the line between fiction and reality, the story is based on a real-life government think tank where a writer was tasked to design worst-case terror scenarios. The fictional story of Unthinkable unfolds when the writer’s scenarios come true, and he becomes a suspect in the terrorist attacks.
“In the end, I feel my privacy is a small price to pay for educating the government about the medium.”
Ok so here’s what the situation boils down too, they detain him by ‘random’ chance, read a comic book critical of the police state then proceeded to interrogate this man? In the end though, the writer chooses education over liberty, I don’t think I’ve ever head that. We should never sacrifice liberty for security but if you sacrifice liberty for education is that a positive?
Also what real-life government think tank designed that writing contest? I remember having it back in high school but I remember my teacher got in trouble for it, he never left the class so somehow he came out in the right, but I never remember why it was important that we do it. After he got in trouble for it he dropped it, I can’t find anything on the Googles!
Yep that’s it, it’s Sunday I’m going to the farmers market then it’s the gay pride parade and I heard this year it’s going to be really gay so you’ll want to at least stop by. I think the whole thing is supposed to run for like 2 1/2 hours, I’m so glad I have no reason to drive downtown.
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