Chapter 64
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Note: Professor Xavier and Magneto are from XMen, specifically the alternate timeline from after "Days of future past."
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Congress was debating the idea of forcing alien refugees living in America to register. Unfortunately, it seemed that they had the support of more than 70% of the american people. Even those who had previously oppossed this might very well support this mandatory registration. Among those watching this were professor Charles Xavier and his old friend/enemy Eric Leitcher, better known as Magneto. Xavier still hoped he could persuade Eric not to take drastic action.
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Xavier: Please don't give up on them Eric.
Magneto: What should I do Charles? I have heard these arguments before, used quite effectively as I recall. Is this not how it starts? Identifying, locating, forcing people who have done nothing wrong to reveal themselves to a world that fears and hates them?
Xavier: It doesn't always turn out that way. The nazies occupied Denmark, but the people resisted and prevented them from carrying our genocide. I remember, hearing about one version of America, where a man was elected president by promising to ban all muslims from entering his country. But the people resisted, there was no muslim ban, no concentration camps.
Magneto: I've heard of that world, a world where children were placed in cages, where an angry mob stormed the Capitol when this lunatic was voted out of office. Not to mention that this world was ravaged by a plague.
Xavier: Indeed, theoretically that could happen to America today. There are good people in America who opposse the SBA.
Magneto: There were those in Germany who oppossed the nazies, who hid jews and gypsies from the Gestapo. But most went along with the nazies, most of those who oppossed them paid for it with their lives.
Xavier: Even if this bill passes, president Odonnell will veto it.
Magneto: Agreed, but he won't always be president. If John Smith or someone else is president in two years, they will sign it. I'm not recommending a preemptive strike, we must make Antarctica a safe haven. If they attack us then...
Xavier: That would be illogical.
Magneto: You expect them to be logical? My father had similar views. So did Chaim Rosensweig, the man the nazies put in charge of our ghetto. Chaim felt that if we made ourselves, our slave labor machine indespensible to the german war effort, that we'd be safe. So my father joined the jewish police, figured if he proved himself as loyal he would save himself and his family. He was right about one thing, it was logical for the nazies to keep us alive. We were among the last ones sent to Auswitz, along with king Chaim. As I said, if they attack us, I will do what is neccessary. Like you I believe in non-violence, if someone is non-violent towards us. But if they attack and we defend ourselves, I don't even consider that violence. I consider it intelligence.
