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* France is under paramilitary rule by an organization that controls most communications. It's not unlikely they just pass themselves off as a private security force and eliminate most references to themselves.
* "Sir? I just wiped out a large paramilitary base underneath New York. How did I discover it? Well, an illegal arms dealer asked me to do a favor for him..."
* How do the MJ12 operate openly in France yet still be called a secret organization? They've been at it for a while, as implied by the barman complaining about the "Gestapo", and a few people at least know the name. How after all this does [[the Internet Oracle]], which data mines all communications, only speculate MJ12 to be trying to take over the world (with less than 30% accuracy at that!).
** While the organization may operate openly in France, the size and true goals of the organization are probably not known to the general populace, or indeed anyone outside the organization. A name can be easily overheard. MJ12 has it's own AI, Icarus, which can be presumed to have similar or better specs than Daedalus, and could probably run interference for MJ12 communications. Even if there was evidence that MJ12 was stockpiling huge amounts of military hardware, and was running a number of their own secret weapons projects, how could anyone tell for certain that those weapons were going to be used for world domination as opposed to, say, merely overthrowing the French government. Most people may even believe that MJ12 IS a branch of the French government. And finally, even if Daedalus or Everett compiled that information and gave it to someone, who would believe them, who would respond and which group, not already in MJ12's pocket, would have the political clout and firepower to take on MJ12?
** The restaurant owner in Paris thinks that MJ12 is an arm of the EU - which implies that French people in general do know vaguely about MJ12 and assume that it's technically above board.
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** The plan might have worked given that {{spoiler|Gunther tracks JC down in Paris}} after JC is seen in the club, on the streets etc.
IRL, random tropers delete all references to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104092048/http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/fema_executive_orders.htm the executive orders] that would permit [[The Government]] to do EVERYTHING they do in the game - right up to summary executions. All they say is "The conspiracy theorists are kooks. The orders don't mean those things. I don't have to explain what they do mean, just that they don't mean what you think they mean. Move along, citizens."
* The vast majority of the executive orders listed on that page have been revoked by later executive orders, so no, FEMA doesn't have that much power anymore, even if they were interpreted in a broad manner. [http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html Check for yourself.]
* But it was getting out of hand and it was making the entry look like an extension of of forbiddentruth.
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