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Post by Lady Blue on Jan 3, 2005 21:39:23 GMT -5
Her appearing before me just scares me more. "They attacked my country!" I say in a very high-piched voice. "I can't just let them go, I'd be betrying my people! Yes I admit that I overreacted to Antero and Sasha, and I'm sorry, please forgive me..."
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Post by Simona Weil on Jan 3, 2005 21:42:44 GMT -5
"I am not telling you to do nothing. The best revenge to injustice is kindness. If you show your enemy love, it will frustrate and confuse them. It is the unexpected reaction to cruelty. This reaction can oppress the oppressor with guild and doubt in ways that simple violence can not. This is why love is the most powerful weapon to use against your enemy."
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Post by Lady Blue on Jan 3, 2005 21:47:55 GMT -5
"And how the hell do I do that? I haven't forgiven them because I CAN'T forgive them! Wait, this is because I'm a capitalistic nationalist isn't it? You want me to commit political suicide so the government collapses and everything deteriorates into anarchy and we wind up even worse off than under Red Infinity's dictatorship, right?" Something tells me that I am overthinking this
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Post by Ezra Weil on Jan 3, 2005 21:48:17 GMT -5
When Ezra learns from Zinn's email that his sister is dead he is filled with both a deep anger and a horrible depression. He leaves the Serbian base and returns to his hotel room. He sits alone in his room and finds that even with all of the pain, he can not cry. He wonders why this is and it angers him even more.
Rather than dwelling on that sore and empty part of his heart, his mind turns to the FRA and how much he hates them. He never had a problem with them before. He is a capitalist and supportive of American independence.
But now, after the death of his sister, his feelings towards the FRA have soured.
He sits on the floor of his room and finds comfort in dark thoughts of revenge.
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Post by Simona Weil on Jan 3, 2005 21:52:28 GMT -5
"I am an anarchist but I am not here for my own political agenda. If any thing, my words should help your group, for your enemies are many and you would do well to make some friends. I do not wish for you to rethink capitalism or nationalism, but I do ask that you rethink your militancy and hostility."
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Post by Lady Blue on Jan 3, 2005 21:56:33 GMT -5
"If I back down our military then Red Infinity will come here and destroy everything we;ve worked so hard for. Even that bastard Kolov understood that!" I say with a sudden realization that that is why he left. "We value our freedom above our lives, but we need the weapons to protect that freedom because freedom is not free and everyone that doesn't have it hates it."
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Post by Simona Weil on Jan 3, 2005 22:01:22 GMT -5
"There are ways to protect freedom without arms. If you need weapons and war to protect freedom then you really aren't free. Instead, you live in an invisible prison of fear. You will never be free Lady Blue. The American people will never be free. As long as they feel that freedom is some prize to be protected from the world with arms and violence, then freedom is just a synonym for isolated paranoia."
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Jan 3, 2005 22:05:17 GMT -5
Bassarov wakes up and gets himself a bowl of raisin bran cereal. He eats his cereal and hears a knock at the door. He is happy to see that it is Zero.
"Hello Zero, what's new today?"
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Post by Lady Blue on Jan 3, 2005 22:08:02 GMT -5
"What the hell kind of circular bullnuts is that?" I ask. She is right that we won't ever be free, but that is because REd Infinity still exists and can still dominate us.
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Post by Simona Weil on Jan 3, 2005 22:13:51 GMT -5
"I'm saying that freedom is a state of mind and spirit. It is autonomy over oneself and freedom over ones actions. We can not control what happens to us, but we can control how it affects us spiritually. That is the kind of freedom I am talking about. A country or organization that lives in fear and must wall itself in with weapons is not really free. War is not freedom. Peace is freedom, internally and externally. But I must go...I have other places to go. Have a nice day."
I disappear into a white wiff of smoke.
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Post by "Zero" Americanski on Jan 3, 2005 22:16:58 GMT -5
"Hi!" I say happily. "Well I'd wanted to stop by anyways, but I heard Freak Boy fled to Argentina. Did something happen or is he trying to protect us?"
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Post by Valodya Bassarov on Jan 3, 2005 22:18:56 GMT -5
"He was attacked by Ahriman and thought it would be a good idea to take a vacation somewhere remote for a while. I think this is good, since maybe Red Infinity and the FRA will forget about him for a while." Bassarov replies.
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Post by Simona Weil on Jan 3, 2005 22:21:37 GMT -5
I appear in Helsinki and decide that maybe I will watch Ruth to see if she finds the Eternal Light.
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Post by Lady Blue on Jan 3, 2005 22:23:37 GMT -5
When Simona leaves I start to feel better. I am still covered with cold sweat, and I feel a need to shower and get fresh clothes. But before I do that I send out the call to activate the interstellar transmitter. IT seems that my military education has left me ill equipped to deal wtih the mess of the civilian world, and for that I need the help of my father...
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Post by "Zero" Americanski on Jan 3, 2005 22:26:14 GMT -5
"Well hopefully... I don't want to see him get captured or start a war by mistake. He almost did both. But I did just finish reading the fan mail he sent me, I had no idea that I was so popular." Of course Bassarov is popular, he is a long time hero of the people. But me? I'm just a quiet young woman who follows Bassarov around and does what he tells me to do.
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