Intergalactic Summit

Someone clearly doesn't understand what a shareholder's meeting is.

Where were you the past five years? You don't remember the mass riots in Heth's name after the armor forge? you don't remember the resignations of various CEO's and the sequential appointment of Tibus Heth based on the sheer will of Caldari opinion? I'm hardly the confused one in this conversation, though I'm beginning to understand that its not uncommon when it comes to dealing with you.

I agree with Kim. We do not let mob rule govern Caldari affairs. Heth uprooted the Megacorps when they failed to make Caldari strong, not because they weren't coddling the weak in our society. If you want weakness, go join the Gallente.

To clarify, Ma'am, I'm not calling all people stakeholders. I worked hard and took many risks to earn my franchise and my stake in Kaalakiota's future, and my position as a leader within it.

If you believe any of the above is true...I have some valuable tropical beachfront property on Caldari Prime to sell you. As others have pointed out, the Provists seem to have a rather odd version of "merit," seeing as how the chief qualification for almost any CPD position is "how much you support Tibus Heth." The mere fact that the Provists back a man who was a loader operator until 5 years ago to run a state inhabited by billions and an economy worth quadrillions of ISK should tell you exactly how much they believe in "merit."

Economic growth? The State has seesawed from economic crisis to economic crisis under Heth's leadership, to the point where he had to send the woman he branded as an incompetent and corrupt nepotist, his predecessor Oriitsuu, to beg the Amarr for a bailout. Workers get a better deal now? According to who? You will pardon my skepticism of the CPD assessing the success of its own misguided programs.

If the CEP were to finally realize that signing over their duty to a bumbling ideologue was a poor excuse for leadership, perhaps we would again see megacorporations competing based on market conditions and the interests of their shareholders, instead of whatever ridiculous idea the "Executor" can come up with today.



Well, hopefully, the CEP will realize what a pathetic excuse for "foreign policy" we have had for five years and return to our previous doctrine of minding our own damn business while maintaining stable markets and friendly trading relations with all parties. Obviously, handing over Caldari Prime now is...not an acceptable option, but every effort should be made to secure the peace between the Gallente bloc and the Caldari State. A ceasefire, if not a true peace, is necessary to ensure the stability of the cluster.

As far as the problems on Caldari Prime, I have little doubt that megacorporate security forces with experience dealing with law enforcement and intelligence matters will do a far better job of securing the planet without alienating the Gallente populace, who would probably be more amenable to megacorporate governance if their "security" was not being maintained by an organization that has indulged in base racism and is staffed by thugs who were unable to find actual useful employment elsewhere. While that bridge may already have been burned, I am sure that the arrest and punishment of those responsible for crimes among the CPD ranks, as well as megacorporate reconstruction efforts and offers to repatriate Gallente citizens who wished to leave Caldari Prime, would go a long way to restoring a level of trust.



The megacorporations do not need "political suppression" to remain in power. They have no divine right to rule, and if they do not deserve their market share, or if they alienate their employees, their fates will remand them to the dustbin of history, to be replaced by more deserving corporations. If there are riots when the Provists are disbanded, then they will be dealt with as any other criminals would be, arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts. This is not "political suppression." If you wish to change the course of megacorporations, you do not riot like some sort of populist trash, you invest in your future and buy shares.

Furthermore, the CEP has no "shock troops," aside from the relatively diminutive and overcommitted Navy and Army forces; corporate security forces are completely within their rights to enforce corporate law within their sovereign territory, something which the CPD has conveniently forgotten. It seems highly unlikely that the CEP would ever agree to deploy State forces against a sovereign member, considering the precedent that would set. The only occasions I am aware of where such an act has been allowed was under the auspices of extreme sanction, and even then the vast majority of forces involved were corporate, not State.

Perhaps if you had not renounced the State to fly under the flag of the Amarr Empire you would understand this all better. The State is not, and has never been an authoritarian dictatorship, regardless of what Tibus Heth would have you believe, and no matter how many times he bangs on the table like a petulant child it will never be so.