7, Video

[darwinatrix]

This is Major-General Olivier Armstrong. If you can ignore the bevy of Imports wasting our time with their age-changing frivolity, I have an announcement to make.

It's no secret that whatever their other feelings towards us, the natives of this world recognize that we Imports pose a threat to them. For how could we not? We have powers they can scarcely conceive of, let alone match. Even a single Import could outclass a regiment or more of this nation's army.

Therefore, I am hereby announcing the formation of RISE: the Rogue Import Suppression Enforcers. We Imports shall police and judge our own, apprehending those among us who would prey on the most vulnerable of this nation's native population and passing sentence as necessary.

Those among you who wish to lend your aid to the RISE mission are welcome. I await your questions.

Comments

[kittenjones]

Yeah. It is. But guess what - what the government's been doing here, which is NOTHING when innocent people are getting killed, THAT'S the thing that's wrong. Doing something about it? THAT'S right.

[chiroptophobic]

I don't disagree.

[kittenjones]

Except you do. Except that's what you've been doing.

[chiroptophobic]

No, it isn't. I don't trust the government, and I'm certainly not blind to their failings. But there are ways to address them that are being shunned for the sake of following the easy part. You can bandage a stab wound, but the damage has still been done; it's deeper than that, and you will never be able to address it by ignoring it.

[kittenjones]

And what do you think is the 'easy' way of doing things?

[chiroptophobic]

This is it.
I won't repeat myself.

[ Damn you youthful impatience. Actually it's amazing he's continued the conversation this long. ]

[kittenjones]

Yeah, OK. Only what you're proposing is sitting back and letting other people take care of it. She's proposing stepping up herself. I think YOUR way is the easy way, and you're just dressing it up with a lot of fancy rhetoric to hide the fact that you just want to pass along the responsibility.

[chiroptophobic]

I assure you, I'm not as blind or as inactive as you seem to think I am. I don't have to justify my activities to you, nor would I. It would be dangerous.
Do you think they're not watching us?

[kittenjones]

"They" who?

[chiroptophobic]

You tell me. Aren't you sufficiently paranoid enough yourself to have some idea of the lack of freedoms you face here?
This is no place for that kind of discussion, and frankly I'm done discussing it.

[ Sorry Kitty, he has work to do. He'll be off now. ]