It was only a few weeks or so a ago we had a war that left these streets in ruin.

There wasn't enough families to house all of the want to be mobsters thriving for growth and prosperity.

So there were a number of brave individuals that volunteered to help and become container crew leaders to help shelter and protect the new mobsters coming to these shores.

However the CC leaders were treated like second rate citizens, by none other than the people in power today. 

grin-07 and his people showed a public display of dislike for the need of Crew Leaders, here on these very streets for all to see.

So where are they now? 

Baal - Retired

Tops - Retired

@Novocane - Murdered by west

Ezekiel - Murdered by west

Blathers - Murdered by west

Takkar - Murdered by west

Please do let me know if I have missed any.

The interesting fact here is the 4 remaining CC leaders that didn't retire all were invited to join and be under the protection of Don west in Seattle.

novacane was purged only 4 days after joining Seattle, by none other than west himself. Apparently for comments made 16 days previous by novacane former RH towards Chicago in response to Chicago's open criticism and dislike of the container crews. 

But, some say it was to settle an old vendetta for grin-07.

The remaining 3 were removed as part of a take down organised by west grin-07 and evelina (former RH of west) yesterday.

This recent purge subsequently removed half of the population of don west own city, yes i said it, his OWN city.

So what kind of leader betrays his own people? but thats a discussion for another time.

So i suppose my question is, why were these CC leaders so disliked by you west ? From what i can see all they ever did was protect new people to these shores until there were enough perm families to house and protect them.

I would advise that anyone that has put in some hard work recently not to comment on my speech, as there is a pattern of people speaking their mind and winding up dead shortly after. If someone is prepared to purge their own city, trust me they wont think twice at removing a few people that speak their mind.

Some say he has read too many dodgy tabloids and that he really does have no idea as to why the latest takedown happened, all we know is he is called John

Looking at the lad Jezza shakes his head in dismay "So you are telling us that this whole takedown was just because West and Grin-07 had a problem with container crews? I can assure you it had absolutely nothing to do with container crews or some imaginery vendetta against said container crews, and who exactly has been shot for speaking their mind?"

My Dad was Clarkson, there he was in Seattle, minding his own business. Successful Newspaper Magnate, Small time Crew Leader, sexy fucker. All of a sudden bullets started flying and people started dropping. Pow, pow, pow. My father didn't know what was happening, SamAdams had not come to the streets to say that there was no war happening, so perhaps there was a war. Suddenly, my old man spied a child playing on the street, a young girl, maybe 3 years of age... in mortal peril from all the lead. Like a streak of Golden lightening, my old man leapt into action, streaked across the street, and used his own body to shield the young lass from harm... and that's when it happened, one of the low life murderers from Seattle, walked up to my father whilst he was dealing with this young child, and shot him in the head... for no reason. A humble tourist from LV, looking to make a few dollars in Seattle when he arrived there at 5am, over an hour before the war broke out, and suddenly he was dead... the only possible reason could be he was murdered for being one of the most outspoken men in Mafialand. I mean, why else would you murder an innocent man looking after a small child in the middle of a gun fight?

I don't know why West and Grin and the rest of the Midwest took those guys out, as you know, The West Coast Posses tend to leave those Mid West crazies to themselves, but I for one am glad that they did. They were obviously nothing more than a group of opportunistic murders and cut throats.

I haven't stated that the reason for the take down was the CC leaders clarkson . As far as i am aware there has been no reason so far as to why west betrayed his own people/city.

I assume he will come out with a speech, that talks about the greater good etc

But from what i have heard on rizadon and dmitry bloodlines, they have always remained loyal to those in power before them and haven't rogued. But i don't know what went on there.

As mentioned in my previous speech clarkson , novacane was removed for the comments made by her former RH in the streets. At least thats what people were told, but again this could have been an excuse for bloodlining on behalf of grin-07

I think the narrow premise of your viewpoint may be what is preventing you from understanding what has taken place, but I also know that is often the point of this kind of conspiratorial fearmongering. If anything, whittling Ballard down to a district best represented as the home of four former container crew members is probably quite insulting to their legacy. Was that all it was? You've quickly backed away from the point but your entire speech revolves around wondering why West dislikes the container crew leaders, while pointing to the removal of Ballard as the reason for your theory.

I know to the upper structures that were clued into the events that took place yesterday, it was also a district from which a number of crewmembers deliberately falsified shot and bodyguard reports to their central district. It is perhaps not my place to explain anything in too much detail before the customary war speech has taken place but have you considered that the thorougness of the former container leaders removals are a byproduct of having ended up together in one district that was subsequently shot, as opposed to the reason for it?

Besides, it was not just West who stood against Ballard, it was Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas as well. 

It says enough that you are deliberately misrepresenting the information to give a flimsy argument some teeth. Grin never showed a public dislike of the container crew leaders, and the street speech you are referring to was made specifically with the intention of making it as easy as possible for them to fulfill their purpose, a primary part of which was to shepherd their temporary crew members into real families when the space was made available in abundance. Our family were eager to work with them and sent representatives to embed themselves and recruit within each of them. They did that, their operations were dissolved, and they rejoined the normal community, after which nobody cared who was or wasn't a container crew leader. 

That presumption is almost as mystifying as this supposed pattern of speaking your mind and winding up dead, the only example of which I imagine you are referring to is Connor_McManus, who publicly referred to an entire network of mafia families as "those asshats from Chicago". Where are the corpses piling up over freedom of speech? We've spent over 500m buying off hits protecting one person's freedom to express themselves, so if anything we have proven to be exceedingly charitable towards the cause. I hear they're thinking of dedicating a wing to old man Grin-07 down at the American Civil Liberties Union. 

No, John. I didn't show any public display of dislike for the need for Crew Leaders, nor as I assume you meant, container crews. I asked the people where they wanted to go so that we could provide them with accommodation that they felt would be most desirable for them. I sent multiple mails to the container crew leaders and supplied all of them a statement about my family and city, as well as having an individual member of my Gang join all but one of the containers. You can read the transcript of my comments, here, and I would welcome you to provide evidence of any "public show of dislike" or "Chicago's open criticism and dislike of the container crews". After you've failed to do that, because there isn't any, perhaps you can evaluate your take against you know, the actual evidence?

And before I go further, you also seem not to understand the meaning of the term "purging". Purging is removing specific people without evidence of their wrongdoing because of who they are, within your own family. What happened yesterday was not purging. I don't want to talk ill of the dead and I don't know whether Don West is intending to address it himself, but the identity of the people involved was irrelevant, it was conduct based.

As to what happened to Novacane, that is obvious, she seemed to think she was above accountability for the actions of her people and too good to answer to the ruling authority. She wasn't. The other container crew leaders all joined the same families which were removed; no real conspiracy I'm afraid.

Your remaining comments are similarly baseless. Nobody has been shot for "speaking their mind" and provided everyone converses with respect to their standing in our world, nor will they. And, if I wanted to bloodline people, I would do so. However, I'm trying this revolutionary idea of judging people on their merits right now and it seems to be working well. 

"Well yes there was that one occassion Master_Splinter your father was a good man, thing, whatever he was, I will miss him dearly the Strip seems nowhere near as weird ass it once did, gone are the Catamites and Sodomites, I mean that's fine with me but I now have a rather grumpy Hammond lurking about the HQ looking bored and lonely"

Jezza turns to see John and listens what what he has to say "I'm not privvy to all the goings on in Seattle so wouldn't comment or even try to as to the exact reasoning for the takedown other than I know it was nothing to do with container crews, which if you are now stating that was not what you meant fair enough but why bring them up in the first place with regards to the takedown?, as you have already stated Novacanes situation and reasoning was discussed back when it happened, so therefore has no real relevance here other than the fact that the remaining CC CL's all just happened to ultimately join the wrong crews" Jezza pauses for breathe "Having said that may everyone who lost their lives on both sides rest in peace"