The London Observer, 4/13/2022

[W Christopher Lynn]

It's a proud part of our tradition to grin and bear even the most severe of all inconveniences. We are, after all, the same nation who elected Ms. Thacher on three separate occasions.

However, even these inconveniences, self-inflicted as they may be, do not hold a candle to the dangers being inflicted upon the law-abiding citizens of London today, by a new menace. One more dangerous to our liberty and our ways of life than the bombing of the Luftwaffe nearly 80 years ago.

When the new mutant university opened, I spoke out in favor of it--if, for no other reason, a tourist attraction to rival the shambled remains of our monarchy. Unlike the Americans, I think the majority of us here in England were--and for that matter, still are--willing to acknowledge them for the good they have done for not only their country, but the Earth as a whole. And protecting us from those crazy chaps who dress up in crazy capes and hold cities for ransom is an honorable and charitable thing for those sort of people to do.

But ever since arriving in London, the unelected braintrust of the university has caused nothing but pain and trouble for the city of London. Some of this, surely, can be written off as collateral damage. However, it has become a target for invasions by a number of incursions. Be it the vampiric invasions of September, or the Sentinel attack which killed dozens of innocent, law-abiding citizens, or the dimensional rifts caused by the maniac Doctor Tomorrow, London has not experienced such a horrific series of tragic events since Adolf Hitler himself spat at our shores. The very presence of these people has been a safety risk.

This is nothing new.

But these recent chronal distortions have simply pushed it too far, and were it not for these so called heroes poking their noses into a dangerous site nigh on two weeks ago, they would never have happened. Can we live with this fact? That a number of untrained college students--and not normal students, mind you, but students of their ilk--are trusted so much as to cause a potential collapse of the time line, and the destruction of our universe?

Can we accept that the university, as evidenced in the photographs accompanying this article, is currently providing sanctuary to the entity known as the Phoenix, an admitted genocidal force of nature, responsible for the extinction of at least one peaceful, sentient life form?

And now, can we accept the opening of a so-called embassy of a rogue state, led by a terrorist, attempting to establish themselves here, in the home of the oldest continual democracy in the history of the world?

It seems clear to me that this status quo can not stand. The university attempts to diffuse blame by shuffling the organizational chart around, promoting a more public friendly face to show the world--though, and this can not be denied, they've chosen to leave a man rumoured to have ties to terrorist acts in a position of power, even if he has had to 'temporarily' step down, and this simply is not enough.

Until our government begins taking these kinds of people to task for the inherent danger people of their ilk cause, citizens of London--nay, England--nay, Britain--nay, the world--they can not sleep safely at night. Oversight is required. Accountability is required. We can not continue to grant our soverignity to an unelected, unappointed group of foreigners--and foreign Mutants at that. The government MUST take action, to prevent these so-called ambassadors and these unelected educatiocrats from essentially holding us hostage, dependent on their 'protection'?

Something has to be done.

Something SHALL be done.

Join with me, my friends, in demanding oversight for the university. Join with me in protesting our government's accepting of the credentials of a Genoshan ambassador. Join with me in standing against terrorism, and for the sort of justice and safety that our citizens most desperately require.

Join with me, my friends.
--W. Christopher Lynn, editor, London Observer.



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[Calvin Strong]

From: Anonymous

Seriously, do you have so little to do that you have time to come up with ways to blame mutants for everything that goes wrong? Go read a book or something, for Christ's sake.

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[Lucy Grant]

Oh my gosh, I never thought about it that way! Are we really causing that many problems? That's so sad! Because we'd never want to make anything bad happen to London, we all LIKE London! Well, I suppose some people don't really care, mostly some of the Yanks here, and a few country folk who don't like the big city, and some people from Paris who can't ever admit to liking something that's British and not French, but I think that inside everyone here LIKES London! The people here have been sooooo nice to us, and we don't want anything bad to happen to them! We want to help them! I'm so glad you brought this up, maybe now the teachers can get together and figure out how to keep that stuff from happening from now on, because that would be so sad if something bad happened and it was because of us! If any of those things have been our fault I'm SO SORRY, because we do NOT want any of these bad things to happen!

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Do you support Xavier's Unversity operating in London?

YES [================] 63%
NO [=========] 32%
UNSURE [=] 5%

[Nailah Weaver]

From: NWeaver

What a lovely one-sided view. What Mr. Lynn fails to consider, quite deliberately I presume, are the social benefits a mutant-friendly education has on the stability of the so called 'gifted' population of London. An atmosphere of fear and bleak outlooks in regards to education and a stable future supplying themselves or family only helps to foster the creation of what he so eloquently calls 'crazy chaps in capes' or terrorists. Giving mutants a chance to contribute to society the same way their fellow human beings do day to day can only be considered a good thing and is likely to serve as a step forward if mankind is willing to accept it as the show of goodwill it is. But please also consider this a preemptive response to the hate-mongers from our side of the fence that are sure to voice their opinion from behind the anonymity of their computer screens soon.

I will not deny that the fears humans and mutants alike deal with every day are quite real but with some of them so conveniently listed in the article I have to ask myself if we, and by that I mean all of us who share this city, really feel the need to add to them by creating unnecessary animosity between us. Obviously there is malice on both sides of the issue that stems from a plethora of sources but if neither side agrees to see past the differences that have risen between us over the last decades then we certainly are set on the path to further harm and destruction like Mr. Lynn is insinuating here.

But quite frankly the fact that he only felt the need to mention the University as a tourist attraction and breeding ground for catastrophe coupled with the quite overreaching comparison to the atrocities commited by the Nazis made me double-check to ensure I was not accidentally reading an article in The Sun.

[Colette Rosenhof]

As London is incapable of supporting the students or accepting responsibility for the city brings onto itself, perhaps the school could be moved to Paris. Just something else the French are more proficient at than the British; tolerance and understanding.

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