Chapter 14, Page 2
(Continued from Section 2A)
BEWARE THE BULLDOZERS?
WHY YOUR BLOCK COULD BE NEXT
Arie Skye, Pallad City Post
While Egol has made clear his intent to renovate deteriorated neighborhoods, some are questioning both the methods and what the eventual results could be. Last month a series of NetMail exchanges between Egol and Mayor Neville leaked, outlining an early draft of their urban renewal plan which would forcibly evict low-income tenants in certain districts, leaving them homeless. Numerous buildings, two public schools, and several small, independently-owned businesses are also in the city’s crosshairs, according to the leaked renewal memos. A swift public backlash followed, prompting the Mayor to insist that the leak only revealed “rejected” proposals.
Jesslyn Feiss, founder of the United People’s Foundation, an anti-poverty organization, is skeptical of Egol’s vision for the city. “You only need to look at Egol’s work in Silica and Old Metro to see where, and with whom, his loyalty lies,” said Feiss. “He doesn’t care about the people who inhabit impoverished neighborhoods. All Egol sees is how to clear out the poor and make way for wealthy investors and contractors. The man’s been doing this for the better part of three decades. He hasn’t changed.”
Feiss is not the only one to raise concerns over Egol’s previous renewal projects. The Pallad City Historical Society has expressed worry that unchecked city-wide renewal could destroy buildings that have cultural heritage, while relocating businesses and people, ultimately tearing entire communities apart.
(Continued in Section 7C)
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Tanabata Usagi.
Color by StayAlivePlz.
Sweet work on the coloring for this page. It looks like our favorite officers have their work cut out for them.
Nice coloring!
Civilian guns can simply be remotely locked? And that wasn’t tried yet? How would that work anyway (or at least, how would they stop civilians from ripping the remote locking mechanisms off their guns)? I was kind of hoping the little blurb down below would be about that.
Civilians are law-abiding (mostly), those who rip the locks out would be criminals, and deserve to be shot in the head
So law-abiding citizens should be forcibly disarmed – which is what such a lock system would accomplish – in the name of stopping the criminal whose gun can’t be remotely locked? How are they going to defend themselves?
ID locks sound like a wonderful idea. Once implemented, all other gun laws become obsolete and can be abolished … right?
… No?
The laws would still be there, this would just make it easier, like in cases like this, to put an end to shit before things get too final, and would probably be a way to un-lock the guns afterwards
Guns aren’t like cars. Firearms have to be user-disassembleable for cleaning, maintenance and repairs, so there’s no way for any such system to work.
I know Hollywood has a love affair with smart guns dating back at least two decades, but there’s a good reason why literally no one on Earth has made a serious attempt at this. Any such system would be cracked by the end of the first day it hit the market, and no one who knows anything about mechanical systems would ever want a smart gun.
Nice colors 🙂