Talk:Amon/@comment-128.220.159.80-20120617001606/@comment-5203176-20120617003756

Being a bender is not necessary to become a council member. The respective nations elect a council member. Sokka was a council member and wasn't a bender.

The council did enforce harsh rules for non benders but this non unanimous decision was after Amon had already started terrorizing the bending population. I'm not defending their treatment of benders, it was wrong but it wasn't like these laws were enforced before Amon.

As for them lying about the mob being armed, they didn't lie. They said on the police scanner "consider them armed and dangerous" as in be prepared in case they were. This was not an unreasonable warning seeing as they were responding to an equalist riot.

Sure non benders do have the short straw, but things were not nearly as bad for them as Amon pretends.