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The talent absorbs everything; the esp-lobe shrivels the balance of the frontal area. But what do we care? We get their prophecies. They pass on what we need. They don’t understand any of it, but we do.
Here, Anderton explains to Witwer how training the precog mutants causes changes in their brain that have severe physical and mental consequences. The entire process of becoming a precog involves complete dehumanization, resulting in the precogs losing their bodily and mental autonomy. Anderton’s casual dismissal of the precogs losing their higher reasoning demonstrates that at its core, the system feels entitled to use citizens however it believes it needs to, even if that means treating them as parts of a machine.
The Precrime Agency of the Federal Westbloc Government is in the process of locating and neutralizing its former Commissioner, John Allison Anderton, who, through the methodology of the Precrime system, is hereby declared a potential murderer and as such forfeits his rights to freedom and all its privileges.
With this announcement from Witwer, Anderton loses his right to be afforded the protections and dignities of a citizen. The government has transformed Anderton from a citizen, afforded protection and human rights, into a “potential murderer,” whose freedoms and autonomy are immediately stripped away. He becomes a force to be “neutralized” and removed from society. The public nature of this announcement means that other citizens know Anderton is now a potential murderer, an object of fear, a dangerous pariah and monster.
