"JSA doesn't classify you that way," Sandy admitted quietly. "And if you look back, you'll see the government doesn't much like us either."
The JSA had been practically destroyed at one point, false charges brought against the founding members. Some of them even locked up. Carter still held a grudge, and it was one of the very few that Sandy agreed with. What it'd done to Kent, to Wes, to Terry...
"We practically had to start the whole thing up again when I got--" and there it was, almost a slip. He really wasn't used to talking so much. "When I woke up. Because they wouldn't fall in line." Because while the All-Stars had fought for their country, they'd refused to help with the witchhunts afterwards. "We're not mutant specific, or even metahuman specific, but we're firmly skeptical. Especially of any kind of registration."
Because the JSA kept their own records. And didn't trust those records to anyone BUT them. Family took care of their own. And they'd seen what had happened when other people got their hands on that kind of information.
Mr. America. His family.
The Haywoods.
They'd almost lost Tomcat and Ted hadn't even known he had a son the week before.
"I'm not making false equivalences." It wasn't the same. It couldn't be. The issue of mutants was so much bigger. "I'm just saying I wouldn't be here, we wouldn't be doing this, if Kara and Mr. Terrific and your professor didn't feel we were aligned in some sense."
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Date: 2015-10-12 04:27 am (UTC)The JSA had been practically destroyed at one point, false charges brought against the founding members. Some of them even locked up. Carter still held a grudge, and it was one of the very few that Sandy agreed with. What it'd done to Kent, to Wes, to Terry...
"We practically had to start the whole thing up again when I got--" and there it was, almost a slip. He really wasn't used to talking so much. "When I woke up. Because they wouldn't fall in line." Because while the All-Stars had fought for their country, they'd refused to help with the witchhunts afterwards. "We're not mutant specific, or even metahuman specific, but we're firmly skeptical. Especially of any kind of registration."
Because the JSA kept their own records. And didn't trust those records to anyone BUT them. Family took care of their own. And they'd seen what had happened when other people got their hands on that kind of information.
Mr. America. His family.
The Haywoods.
They'd almost lost Tomcat and Ted hadn't even known he had a son the week before.
"I'm not making false equivalences." It wasn't the same. It couldn't be. The issue of mutants was so much bigger. "I'm just saying I wouldn't be here, we wouldn't be doing this, if Kara and Mr. Terrific and your professor didn't feel we were aligned in some sense."