Intergalactic Summit

It's not a wish, it's an observation of fact. A government can't govern a people without their consent. All governments are a reflection of the citizen's will, and will be changed and replaced when the people feel it's needed. I never said the change would be for the better. Though, if the current Caldari government wants to stay in power, telling their citizens to sit down and shut up might not be the best policy. But that's none of my business.

Correct. But the governments response to them is representative of the government.

Just to clarify my stance on the issue, I'm not attempting to demonize the state for this incident, but simply offering my perspective on the matter and attempting to find an ever elusive line in the sand.

As you said, employment contracts are the proof of citizenship and de facto bill of rights for the Caldari people. What would be considered just cause for civil disobedience by the citizens of the state? As a citizen of any nation, I would view the matter of the quarantine as a serious enough reason to cause a scene and draw attention to it. I would imagine that the governing body would recognize the this and attempt to alleviate the worries of the people before resorting to unveiled threats of excommunication. (As a citizen of the Federation, I also realize that my government's attempts at alleviating my worry would be complete bull excrement, but I'd expect the attempt made anyway)

These meetings between the two nations are always tense , due to the animosity and distrust they share for each other. This kind of breaking news was hardly surprising. Many on both sides, would of not wanted a meeting to happen in the first place. They are the most probable suspects for the leak. Which achieved its goal.

I was expecting maybe something little more explosive , when i heard this meeting was going ahead. Either an attack by the Fed on the State government or vice versa.

Perfect opportunity to remove some of your political opponents , blame it on the other side.

Bomb blast rips through Concord station, all Chief Executives of the Mega's attending the conference have been killed in the blast. No members of the Roden administration were present when the bomb went off !

It could of been arranged. We could have a new State Executive, CEO Lai Dai. Killed Mens Reppola.

Glory to the State.

Whatever his politics, and intent, Horn has a point.

If such elements wanted to act, that's not a bad way to cause damage for minimal effort.

My question now is; Whose pulling the strings.

Gremlins need no reason, motive, or explanation.

They simply are.

Listen, I'll try and weigh in on this, but politics are outside my realm of expertise; My parents dug, I was trained to dig, I'm paid to dig, and so I dig. How the heck I got picked for capsuleer training, I don't know.

Fact of the matter is that people have a job to do, and you can't just walk off from it to go be angry. My supervisor's ticked me off more times than I care to mention, but I grit my teeth and do my job. imagine if a group of ventilation technicians...what's the word? Oh yeah, "unionize", and go on strike. While they aren't working, automated systems fail, and suddenly you got security having to evacuate residential area due to CO2 levels spiking due to excessive contamination. Well those union workers still aren't happy, and suddenly those same vents and filters now have an exponential increase on stress since the station population's been so heavily displaced, and now the filters are gonna blow much sooner, and contamination is going to build up much faster.

See what I'm getting at here? It's not a matter of desire, it's a matter of NECESSITY. Our jobs are crucial to the survival and comfort of our communities. If you have a problem, that doesn't give you an excuse to screw over your community. I just wish we'd let in willing outsiders more often. Our population's low enough as is. Frankly, if they're qualified for a job that some other idiot is too lazy or irritated to handle, I'd gladly call that foreigner brother. At least then i don't have to worry about suffocating in my sleep due to dissent.

If some holier-than-thou white knight...wait. Wrong idiom, I think the Ammar have that one.

If some Social Justice lackey wants to sleep on a station full of workers ready to jump at someone's throat, then that's their choice. It ain't gonna end well. I just wish the Corporate Heads would've done what I, and every other schmuck that earns their paycheck does everyday - Grit their teeth, and do the job they have to do for everyone else's benefit.