Intergalactic Summit

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We are getting complimented?

This must be a trick of some kind...

You should direct this to TLF or if you want to go even further maybe even to cartel.

I used a Magus.



I doubt they make it that far. If you do not understand the purpose of these petitions, it seems I overestimated you.

Here we have no disagreements. I hate my six-monthly meeting with what I've started referring to as my "case worker" or my "handler" so that we can talk about ways I can improve my lifestyle and then end with the paperwork where I sign over all the money that restitution requires.

It's all about the money.

Very sorry for the very late reply, Mr. Kinnison. There is much to think about and elaborate on and I really like to sit down and think this through. However, the going-on’s on my end conspired to deprive me of any free time I need to come up with a proper reply. Now that nothing is demanding my attention, I can now go through your points and reply to them in a hopefully satisfactory manner.


When I mentioned the need for an ‘army’, I do not necessarily mean an army bearing weapons with the intent to cause bloodshed. I meant a crowd of people who are willing to put their careers, lives and social lives at risk for the sake of advancing the advocated cause. However, this army has to be dedicated, as already mentioned earlier, it has to be *very* visible, *very* persistent and it has to be able to hurt the decision-makers in some way.

Using the example of democracy, you need a very loud army of protestors, parked in a very visible spot that also happens to disrupt the logistics and administrative functions of the organisation of which the decision-makers belong to. Their presence alone will be threatening enough, especially if the decision-makers belong to a governing body, considering that this army is made out of people who will not be voting for them in the next election until they address the issue-in-question and satisfy the army in some way. However, all of this will be for nothing if the army can’t gather on a weekly basis to generate persistent publicity. An army that shows up only once and then vanishes for the rest of the year is in no way threatening to the decision-makers, especially since the lack of persistence allows them to ‘forget’ about the issue and do nothing about it.

In other societies, yes, said army will need weapons and leaders with military backgrounds.


The last time CONCORD actually responded to capsuleer protests without resorting to CONCORDOKKEN-ing all the protestors away and actually fix something that I can think of was during the Monocle-gate incident. I do not need to elaborate what went on, but I firmly believe that the only reason why CONCORD responded was because the capsuleer protests *hurt* them, and the rest of high-sec (and possibly the rest of the cluster).

Remember that the protest eventually developed to the point that the capsuleers occupied Jita, shot up a monument and then proceed to resign from capsuleer-hood (either momentarily or permanently) en-masse, resulting in a slow-down in trade and causing an economic repression all around the cluster. This forced CONCORD to actually sit down and listen and act for once.

Yes, words were traded prior to the riot, but had the words not inspired the participants of the riot into, well, rioting, the words would be meaningless. Words by themselves mean nothing. People say things all the time and then forget all about it the next day. For the words to actually mean something, said words must inspire action.