A quick one I wrote out after having an idea tonight, and sort of a challenge to myself to see if I could write an article without any redactions.
Let's hear what you think.
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MTF 6991-B is to be employed indirectly by Site 632 management and is not to be made aware of the Foundation's existence. Members of MTF 6991-B are to be recruited exclusively from police and private security backgrounds.
If none of MTF 6991-B have a military background, they're not going to be affected by the SCP, so why keep them ignorant of the Foundation's existence?
(account deleted)Does the 1776 number mean anything?
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
It means AMERICA you bastard, and I'm not letting any of you mess up this flag with your downvotes!
if your reading this your gay
I really like the concept, part CtF and part nationalistic/militaristic commentary.
That said, I'm a little iffy on the containment procedures. Couldn't you just fold this up into a locked steel box and shove it in a locker where no one would see it? Why all the stuff about containment breaches and flagpoles and whatnot? Vote withheld for the moment.
The flagpole is a failsafe. As it is it shouldn't be possible for anyone who could be affected to get to the flag - but if they do, they'll know there's a big flagpole out front that nobody is using and that'll be the first place they try to go. That way, in the event of a breach, it should be fairly easy to intercept the affected people.
A minor nit to pick, the vast majority of police forces and many private security firms are very much para-military organizations. Depending on the region, many police hierarchies even use military ranks; sergeant, leutenant, etc. Now, if by "private security firms" you mean mall security gaurds and similar rent-a-cops, I could see that working. But the phrase also refers to don't-call-them-mercenary groups such as Blackwater, organizations that are less para-military and more para-MILITARY. I think they would be extremly succeptible to the flags effects.
I didn't want to add too much extraneous detail to the article itself, but my feeling is that there's a cultural set and a certain threshhold of esprit de corps that affects whether a person is affected by the flag or not. I'll concede that most modern police forces have some militaristic elements, but my feeling was that, in this country at least, police and military are culturally distinct enough that a cop with no military background probably wouldn't be affected. Likewise, a hardened combat veteran would be more likely to fall under its sway than, say, someone who joined the National Guard to avoid the draft and spent their hitch flying a desk.
By "private security" I was referring generally to law-enforcement-lite kind of groups - night watchmen, rent-a-cops, bounty hunters, private investigators, possibly corrections officers, and so on. My understanding is that groups like KBR and whatever Blackwater is calling itself these days are mainly made up of ex-military people anyway.
I may refine this to make those points more clear later on when I have a little more time.
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