Chapter 207: F&P
"To be honest, I don't know much about it. It's possible that the name is just a coincidence. ”
Strange's answer obviously did not satisfy Grant.
"The report says that it is a 'well-known neutral organization', and you even say that you don't know the situation?!"
"S.H.I.E.L.D. is more well-known, and I don't know it anymore." Strange didn't mean anything embarrassed, "As I said, the duties and focus of the Supreme Mage are on the timeline and the other dimension, and they don't have much time and energy to pay attention to the internal affairs of the earth. Otherwise, how could there have been two world wars. Even if he is a teacher who has lived for more than 100 years, the only mundane thing he has ever intervened in in his life is the Cuban Missile Crisis. If it weren't for the Black Emperor triggering a nuclear war, the teacher wouldn't have gone to great lengths to travel through time and space. That way, the previous task at the second point in time will be much easier. ”
Grant was speechless for a moment.
"But it's not that I'm completely unaware of the news of freedom and peace. After seeing that name in Captain America's 'summoning order,' I asked people to look it up. ”
This is not without the meaning of Strange. Grant praised the other party very cooperatively, and then asked, "What about the result?" ”
"As a result, this new freedom and peace is not simple."
The founder is unknown, the current leader is unknown, the operation form and business structure are unknown, and the goals and objectives are unknown...... All kinds of things are unknown to outsiders, giving its existence a mysterious color in the sky. In addition, it is located on a small island at the most edge of the Bermuda archipelago, which happens to be in the area of the anomaly of the earth's magnetic tape, and many instruments and equipment will malfunction after getting close, which makes many outsiders who want to enter to find out what is going on. This raises another level of mystery for it.
Mystery or something came after it became famous. When no one noticed it before, who cares if he is mysterious or not. So, how did it become famous? And why is it considered a neutral organization?
It all started with the mutants making trouble on Liberty Island.
The situation of mutants at the time was after Congressman Kelly introduced the mutant hierarchy bill. It's getting worse and worse. Especially those who are not members of the Mutant Brotherhood and are not members of the X Academy. Subsequently, Magneto, who had been recruiting mutants, was arrested, and the mutant brotherhood was leaderless for a while, which made the situation of mutants suddenly come to the lowest point ever. Many organizations that were already eyeing mutants have officially reached out their claws, and those forces that have been secretly hunting mutants have directly removed their disguises. Shoot without hesitation.
A reporter revealed a scene in which a squad of heavily armed soldiers suddenly burst into a residential building, kicked open the door of one of the houses forcefully and directly, and dragged a family of three out. More than 20 residents of the same residential building came out to ask the soldiers for identification and for their immediate release. As a result, when the soldiers pointed out that the family was mutants, most of the twenty-odd residents walked away, and the rest even applauded. In the video clip, it can be seen that the applauding group of three is looking at the family of three with disdain and fear, while saying words of gratitude to send the group of soldiers out.
It doesn't end there. After that scene was revealed, it attracted a certain amount of attention in society. All eyes were on the X-Men who had appeared on Liberty Island. The Mutant Brotherhood was also expected to react, but it wasn't high - Magneto was still locked up, after all. It's just a surprise to everyone. Professor X and the X-Men have yet to respond. The mutant brotherhood continued to keep a low profile, but an organization that had been obscure came forward and publicly denounced the soldiers and the forces behind them.
This organization is Free and Peaceful, or F&P for short.
In the condemnation statement, the F&P did not elaborate on the threat of mutants, let alone the relationship between mutants and ordinary humans. It had been clinging to the slightest - the soldiers had a bad attitude and had no identification, no qualifications to enter the house, and no arrest warrant.
Originally, this kind of thing didn't attract much attention. Even in the country of the United States. But because it involves mutants and is condemned by a foreign organization. As a result, it soon swept through most of the United States.
Under pressure, the U.S. government. The government immediately reacted, one by one. Government departments have successively distanced themselves from the media.
If things go the way some people think, that's the end of it. At most, it is the US politics. The government issued another statement promising to find out the origin of the soldiers and punish them as much as possible, and the end result was likely to be unsuccessful.
Unfortunately, it didn't.
In one by one. The day after the government department cleared up the relationship, F&P struck again. They contacted one of the five major television networks in the continental United States. Two videos were played during the popular time slot. The first video depicts the group of soldiers snatching a mutant family of three out of a residential building and putting them in a car. From a different angle, this time the picture is much clearer. Then the screen turned, and the same car stopped in a city parking lot, and out of it came soldiers who were exactly the same in clothes and movements, and a family of three with black cloth heads. At the end of the video, the soldiers escorted a family of three into the stairwell of the parking lot. The logo of the government department.
At last. That Politics. The government department had to fire a number of people to settle the matter. Those people also went to prison one after another. And F&P, which has always taken the initiative in the whole thing, has instantly become the focus of many people. Let's not talk about what its purpose is, but it can get that government unknowingly. The video of the closed-circuit surveillance of the underground parking lot of the government department is already worth paying attention to.
Attention often means trouble, and this is vividly interpreted by the vast number of journalists. In just a few days, the headquarters of the once crowded F&P in Bermuda suddenly saw several more circles of people standing in front of the door. The horrors of the Bermuda Triangle and the failure of most of the equipment did not dampen the enthusiasm of the journalists. Soon it was revealed that the mutant family of three who had been taken by the soldiers had entered F&P's headquarters and accepted the latter's asylum.
This news once again caused an uproar in American society. That Politics. The government department only said that three mutants had been released, and then three were silent. Journalists, unable to get the truth from this side, once again turned their attention to F&P's headquarters. As a result, people have hung up a Do Not Disturb sign.
Journalists certainly don't just give up. In those days, news about F&P would appear on TV every day during popular times. What S.H.I.E.L.D. agents went to investigate and were denied, and suddenly said that a group of unknown people drove a submarine to the outskirts of the island where the F&P headquarters was located, only to be almost wiped out due to a machine failure, etc. It was only then that the public saw on the news that the Governor of Bermuda had visited F&P headquarters, and it was not long before the visitor was replaced.
In short, F&P was as hot as it was during that time.
(PS: Originally, it was intended to use the three initials of Freedom_and_Peace as an abbreviation.) But after I was a mother, I simply dismissed this idea...... (To be continued......)