Intergalactic Summit

I for one would consider that a badge of honor. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Also, the FIO is not popular in the Federation. The FIO attacking a militia alliance, and one that's participated a number of high-profile victories against the Provists, would be PR suicide for the Roden administration.

Mentas Blaque since his bid for presidency has been known to not favor the Minmatar/Gallente alliance. I don't believe him responsible for this particular murder. But he does indeed have the necessary bias to follow a uncooperative course.

The FIO under Blaque also has significant conflict of interest holding this assassin, as the attack significantly damaged their credibility. They have a vested interest to bury any information, to keep the institution intact.

This situation requires the light of public scrutiny and criticism to correct what appear to be fundamental functional and philosophical flaws in our internal defense. The loud protestations and intimidation tactics from Thoun Gatarau, head of the Black Eagles only solidifies that fact.

I support this initiative.

I may not care for the messenger but, that doesn't invalidate the message.

Ah, no. Our Alliance, its Member Corporations, and Soter in particular are all in perfectly good Standing with the Federation. Foolish individuals are perfectly free to voice their criticism of us, but the actions of our Pilots show clearly exactly where our loyalty is.

Regardless, if the liberty of my fellow citizens is threatened I will defend it. Whether they like me or not. Clearly the actions of the FIO contravene the basic founding articles of our Federation. Apparently there are Gallente among us who've taken a liking to Caldari fashion lately and are hard at work shining their jackboots. Here's notice that some refuse to follow them meekly.

Ah, sticks and stones Mademoiselle Vitalia.

The Villore Accords and M. Soter are not known for being lovable, but we're also not known for dragging people out of their beds in the dead of night and throwing them into secret prisons without trial. While we can be loud and arrogant, we're not feared or hated like the FIO.

To be fair, Silas may be a savage blood drinking she-witch, but more people like her than they do Julianus, which says a fair bit about his activities and those of Moira.

Marellus


Im not saying the Federation killed Midular. Your goverment is extremely dangerous. Federation death squads, holding people in prison without charge, torture.

All i was saying if Soter continues his attacks on his own goverment he may end up like Midular. If he does It would of been sanctioned by the President Roden carried out by intelligence services.

Dont tell me your not concerned about your own goverments recent actions and accusations against it Marellus. Soter is concerned and is taking stand against it. You to should take stand against them Not with words, with force.

Not my Government Tomhorn, you need to stop making that mistake.

As someone relatively new to this charming little corner of the holonet, I'm rather taken aback by the level of vitriol and hostility here. It seems people don't have a problem so much with what M. Soter has said, but with the fact that it was he who said it.

Let's take the personalities out of the equation, and judge our statements on their own merits. I'll break down our arguments in detail, and everyone can let us know what's so reprehensible about them:

1. We believe that without Senate oversight, the FIO has become a rogue gendarmerie under the control of the executive branch. Should the FIO overstep the bounds of Federal law, the public (or even other branches of government) has no means of legal recourse. We have no confidence that without this oversight, the FIO has been or will operate either legally or in the best interests of the Federation and it's citizens.

To clarify, we are not asking the FIO to telegraph it's every move to the public. Transparency and accountability can be achieved without compromising operational security.

2. We believe that combined with this lack of accountability to the Federation public & their representatives in the legislature and judiciary, the FIO's "exclusive & unconditional" right to assume authority over any element of the government has made the president into a de-facto dictator. We have no confidence the FIO's authority will not be abused by the executive, now or in the future, and used to contravene the authority of the other branches of the Federal government (otherwise known as a coup).

3. We believe that M. Blaque's public history of discrimination against the Minmattar people makes him unsuitable to lead the FIO. We have no confidence that Monsieur Blaque is able to perform his duties without allowing his prejudices to become policy.

4. We believe that all things mentioned in prior grievances came together this week to cause an international incident with our closest ally. M. Blaque and the FIO, through deliberate prejudice or incompetence, provoked the Minmattar Republic. Although the FIO cannot be held responsible for the thoughtless actions of the Republic, they should, yet cannot, be held responsible for creating and then escalating the situation that led to the Battle of Colelie.

By this public statement of no confidence, we hope we can pressure President Roden to act in the best interests of the Gallentean people and in the spirit of Federation law. GMVA leadership is not asking for violent action against M. Blaque or his agency; only that the President remove M. Blaque from his office and reorganize our internal security efforts to align with Federation law and values.

It looks like the author of the article there overlooked one small fact about the involvement of you, mr. Ixiris. Did you bribe him or did he just miss the fact that you were in command of the activist fleet? (Oh, and the True Slave Foundations were not in that fleet but flying around trying to be disruptive.) I was there too and left the fleet after I realized what the "activists" are doing. I wasn't happy with them gasing the FIO personnel to sleep. Yet you remained and later, opened fire on FIO ships. You continue undermining the effort of Julianus and side with FIO in this. I wonder, what turned you around. Or is it just the thing Anton hinted above so nicely quoted by Ms. Oniseki?