>Um, am I understanding this correctly, but is PSI corp threatening to
>basically haul anyone off the street who is remotely pyschic and turn
>them into a PSI corp goon? Irregardless of citizenship?

Well, no, not quite.

What the Extension to the Act does is permit the Corps to conscript telepaths from other Earth Alliance worlds, as opposed to just on Earth as they do "now". The vict - er, new recruits - still have to be citizens of the Earth Alliance. According to the Corps charter, p-talented non-citizens are supposed to be monitored closely and deported if they cause problems, but they can't be conscripted into the Corps.

The reason this is alarming to non-EA citizen-types is simple: any broadening of the Corps' powers is alarming. However benign and worthwhile their cause is supposed to be, they're creepy and nobody likes them. It's a slippery-slope argument.

>If that is the case, why didn't Zeta Cygni register a protest about
>this? I can't imagine that Gryphon would be infavor of this extension
>of Psi Corp power.

A protest has indeed been registered, but Gryphon, along with several others, has already chalked this round up as lost and is preparing for the next one. Now that the Corps have expanded their powers once, they'll more than likely try it again.

>Why does Devlin think that everyone letting Earth get away with this
>will _not_ cause a conflict? And why isn't he worried?

He does think it will lead to conflict; his quote is a reference to the 20th-century British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who gave away about half of Europe to Hitler in the late thirties rather than fight the war everybody else in the world could already see was inevitable. Devlin is being snide, comparing the nations that didn't protest this "internal" move on the Corps' part to the countries that knuckled under to Hitler when he grabbed Austria and then had the gall to be surprised when he invaded Poland. And who says he isn't worried? Just because he never says he is...

>Also, why does everyone need a Psi Corp card?

This's been covered elsewhere, but - so they can prove, if asked, that they've already been screened and come out flat-scale on the TP meter. Supposedly, that makes them exempt from the Corps' enforcement powers, and thus entitled to file protests and the like if they are harassed by officers of the Corps.

--G.
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