Intergalactic Summit

In response to Mademoiselle Vero:

Firstly, you should be commended for your stalwart defense against what is no doubt perceived as the pernicious assaults against your lawfully elected government and its chosen Executive representative, President Jacus Roden. I will admit to having been initially disingenuous, for my thoughts were not my own but rather taken almost ad verbatim from what I would describe as the typical diatribe from the Federal liberal media -- indeed, enemies abound in the Federation these days and the flawed bias of the liberalists, the leftists, and the secret socialists form nothing more than unpatriotic thought inimical with the defense of freedom and democracy.

You are correct, the errant thinking of the liberal-left in the Federation is often prone to wild speculation with no basis in factual evidence and often when all else fails in their assaults (some might even call it perilously close to sedition) upon the Federation's Manifest Destiny, its Freedoms, and its Democracy, they can and will resort even to slander, propaganda and wild conspiracy theories. Their lies even cross borders: Even I have been the victim of their erroneous speculation and conspiracy theories constructed out of nothing more than coincidence.

As if the fact that your organization, the Villore Accords, before it was an alliance was an initiative initially proposed by an avowed Social Democrat and Blaqueist before I acquired the stocks in his company; stocks previously held by Ishukone and then Roden Shipyards; that prior to his appointment as CEO of the company he was associated with a mercenary organization known as Privateers along with Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United who would later prove instrumental in the capture of all Federal systems in the initial stages of the war; that such occupation of Federal territory were contributing factors to the resignation of Suoro Foiritain and the election of Jacus Roden; that they all form the basis for one conspiracy or another in the minds of liberals in the Federation, but always failing to recognize the fact that I am nothing more than a humble soldier of the State and Kaalakiota.

What the liberals of the Federation will continue to fail to understand, as they no doubt engage in political fiction devoid of any true fair and balanced opinion, is that Jacus Roden is a man to be admired. I certainly can admire a man, who in his own way, defended the true libertarian ideal just as the Caldari people and the Megacorporations once defended it, and continue to defend it to this day. President Roden's defense of private property rights and free enterprise against the attempts at nationalization by a liberal and socialist in Foiritain. Indeed, if history had taken a different turn and the Caldari had remained in the Federation, I would be more than willing to support the Roden campaign through a Political Action Committee for in Jacus Roden would have been a President willing to defend the Free Markets against the intercessions of Big Government liberals, uphold private property rights, and stimulate economic growth by lowering corporate taxes and reducing the overheads of government regulation in the markets to ensure the natural creation of jobs by businesses no longer stifled by undue red tape.

Indeed, if there had been more true libertarians such as Jacus Roden two hundred years ago instead of liberals and socialists seeking to use the Federal Government to oppress that greatest of freedoms: to participate in a free market without restrictions upon equality and through ones own talents and merits be rewarded with prosperity for ones labours, then there would have been little need to even consider the Caldari secession. The coming weeks and years ahead may very well be what future generations will see as the beginning of a New Order between the State and Federation where the mistakes of the past are rectified and the vagaries of both liberalism and socialism are effectively ameliorated to provide the foundations for true accord and understanding.

To that end, I would suggest you and yours in the FDU continue to fight for the same reasons that President Roden pinned his medal to your chests: Pride. Recognition. Respect. Or perhaps tell yourselves it truly is a just cause for freedom and democracy against an evil foe -- really, whatever you need to achieve that required state of blissful cognitive dissonance.

Personally, I have no further need to perpetuate the particularly predictable and asinine little blame games and partisan propaganda for why should I? I have already accomplished the goals I had set for myself years ago, that now I can simply enjoy watching events unfold as they should and as they must be with calm grace and satisfaction at least for awhile. As for peace, I think it will come in time, just not in the form some might think it should take.

It seems both sides consider this matter closed and in the past.

Obviously repercussions will continue to be felt, but it is hard to imagine them being of universe shattering proportion.

There lies my issue with strawmen. Continue to call us U-Nats as much as you want, but that will not make it true.

U-Nats want to see the Caldari subdued, we do not.

U-Nats want like to enforce Gallentia over all else, we do not.

U-Nats are gallente supremacists, we are not.

U-Nats are a shadow of the past on the brink of extinction, we are not.