Bitstrip

In the book, people in the city are being tracked. Wherever they go, their "FasTrak" passes will show the Police/etc where they've been. Marcus, however, creates a device that can mess up people's FasTrak passes. Soon, his Xnet friends are using the devices daily, so that everyone's traffic patterns are abnormal.

I made my bitstrip refer to the people who become wrongly accused of having "abnormal" traffic patterns. I created a little girl, who looks completely innocent (who is actually innocent), and this police officer who thinks that she is suspicious because of her wrong "FasTrak" pass patterns.

Anyways, I was horrified when Marcus and his friends are interrogated after the bridge bombing, because in my opinion, any sane person should be able to tell that these group of teenagers were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. To jump so readily to the conclusion that they were suspicious just seemed so WRONG to me. Those DHS people were so blinded to their own success, or something I don't even know. They were blinded because of their own terror, maybe. That was how Marcus's dad was momentarily blind to his son's plight, too.