Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-70.174.58.70-20140722191028/@comment-19765459-20140724055832

StevenMcKupkake wrote:

Or because they dont wan to throw the whole world into a chaos and panic where everyone questiosn if there next door neighbor is a human or some supernatural creature that wants to eat your face. The hunters have been shown to have connections so it wouldnt suprise me if they had a few people in the higher ups of the goverment. I actually doubt that. Chris Argent's reaction to the need to cover for his own daughter's death-by-demonic-katana was just to get the kids to all spout the same story. There was no high-level government connections. In fact (and we're drifting way into fanon here), I believe the exact opposite. I think that the Hunters are afraid to let the governments know about things like werewolves.

Two words: super-soldiers

Can you imagine how many governments/militaries would be all over this? Imagine taking Army Rangers, Marines or Navy SEAL's and turning them into werewolves! What are already the most lethal fighting forces on Earth would become superhuman armies! Plus, how many geriatric politicians would want to go the Gerard route and try to delay death by getting the Bite?

Then there would be the legal issues. Technically, werewolves are humans. They're anatomically human enough that unless a doctor actually witnesses their healing factor or shapeshifting, they are can sit in a hospital and be checked out by medical professionals without immediately being pegged as nonhuman. Which would make them a human "race", and could be argued in court that they should be protected equally under the law.

Imagine the look on a Hunter's face were they to be arrested for hate crimes!

No, they like controlling their little hunting sport. The Hunters behave very much like the Medieval warrior elite they are descended from. They don't want the "peasants" that they "protect" getting uppity and thinking they have say in how any of this is handled. Victoria Argent had such overt contempt for humanity that she couldn't even be bothered to turn her car around and check on somebody she almost hit without Allison screaming at her! The common people aren't her problem dammit!

They're a bunch of sociopaths who enjoy their way of life and don't want it taken away from them. So they protect and preserve the secret. But I don't see evidence of them doing so at a high level of government. Otherwise the FBI would not be poking around Beacon Hills, initially oblivious to the supernatural goings-on and at risk of uncovering what they're not supposed to know. If the Hunters were already connected to the Feds, the agents they sent would have already been towing the Hunter line.