New York was the center of the world's attention today!
Inside the Presidential Suite of the Waldorf Hotel...
Raymond watched the televised footage as large numbers of Mutants boarded Excursion Boats and headed for Liberty Island.
They carried banners and chanted slogans, looking ready to nail Hela to the Pillar of Shame.
Anyone with any sense knew there was almost no chance of making Hela, the Queen of Asgard, pay for killing a few Mutants.
Those in the know understood that the slogans were nothing more than bargaining chips...
But once the crowd reached a certain size, there was no controlling the Mutants' emotions.
My life is already this miserable. What else do I have to lose?
All it took was a little prodding from those hoping to profit from a Mutant riot to set the Mutants' anger ablaze.
After more than ten hours of television coverage, Mutants had begun to understand the Union's role and what the New York Mutant Act actually said...
But that didn't change the fact that they wanted Hela out of the Mutant Union. Nobody liked a President who killed people on a whim.
Maybe the Union was right, but it had chosen the wrong President.
If Manhattan Axe could be made to pay for beating someone up, then why shouldn't Hela?
They had no idea that, though Hela hadn't acted for their sake, what she did had in fact helped them out of their predicament.
Manipulating the media sounded simple, but you needed solid evidence to get media outlets to willingly side with the Mutants.
Even with Raymond's abilities and influence, there were still conservative-state media outlets that stuck to the position of suppressing and controlling Mutants.
Hela's actions had taken a lot of work off Raymond's hands...
The media had begun to