ANTIcarrot wrote:If I've got six billion gang-mates though, then I'm going to feel pretty damn safe, even if we all have blunt knives, especially if that one cop only has 14 bullets in his gun.
Also if I believe I have a valuable hostage (AKA: Earth itself - and there's precious little on the planet they'd want) then I'm also going to feel I'm in a position to at least negotiate - no matter what the cop says.
Then again - I'm a drugged up gangland street thug who *hates* cops and the idea of being sent to jail for life. I might attack anyway. Or I might run. Or I might just taunt him (Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelt of elderberries!) or I might just do any number of other things. Especially if the cop hasn't even drawn his gun yet.
By all accounts the cops in this case just showed up in their big shiny police cars, strobed their lights, wailed their siren, flashed their badge, struck dramatic poses, did not show, demonstrate, or prove any weapons - and everyone simply gave up.
I find no parallel for that in all of human history. Therefore I find it unbelievable; unless mind bending was involved.
Of course you would find no parallel for that in all of human history...it's never ever happened before ....Apples and Oranges.... Goverments have rolled over in the face of overwhelming olds before ...thats the parallel your looking for ....but they usualy had a resistance movment ....but telephathy kind Negates that quick
The big problem is maybe they do only have 14 bullets in their gun
Question is Who's going to stand up and be the first 14 to take those bullets.
Hell goverments haven't aggreeded on anything completely thats one of the reasons i see they folded......
Thinking they could over throw the faey and come out on top .....they just didn't count on that telephathy thingi
Phantom