I realize it's been some time since I've come to these streets with a proper message for the masses. Between handling some personal matters and getting a series of barely-legible death threats, I decided to hang up my spurs in the newspaper business. But now I'm entering a whole new line of work. Hunting.

You see, there's something wrong with the way these so-called "leaders" do their hunting. Something crooked and unsportsmanlike. It's a fake kind of hunting, where predators invite prey into their homes to convince them they're safe before they slit their throats. They even convinced me, for a time, that I wasn't being hunted. They convinced the city of Chicago (twice), and more than fifty others (fifty, like seriously?) of the same lie just since my arrival.

They've likely convinced many of you that you aren't being hunted. That you are exempt from the punishment of whatever unspoken laws that merit being shot several weeks into your time in their crews. But the honest truth is that no one is safe from it. Given enough time, their paranoia with outweigh your utility, and you will be eliminated like so many before you.

Well, I'm going to put an end to their hunting season with a hunting season of my own. Put an end to shooting fish in barrels. Put an end to flooding the streets of their own cities with the blood of the members who signed their rules and paid their tributes. Their decimation of their own cities is nothing more than an opaque insecurity that insulates them from the reality that they are not real hunters. They're not leaders. And soon, they won't be anything at all.

That's why, tonight, I'm shooting people in the face. My hunting season has only just begun. If you are tired of being hunted, there is plenty you can do to help my efforts. Whether your gun is yet to be maxed, or could fell a cap-killing coward, there is work for you to do. On any other day of your life, the sum of the impact you can make on the untouchables of this world is almost nothing. But today is different. Today, you hold the power.

Today you can join the hunters. Because, you see, they need you in order to survive this Hunting Season. There are dozens of them, and they don't have the resources to keep themselves safe without your help. They have hunted you and your friends for months, and now they'll turn to you to save them from being hunted themselves.

So when they tell you to pro them, or shoot at my bodyguards, or shoot my crew members, know that you are not helping your city, your crew, or even yourself. You are protecting someone who loathes you from the consequences of their own actions.

I certainly hope you have no plans to shoot Gidan_R. He's done nothing wrong and seems to be a pretty peaceful guy. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking about it.

At this time, we can confirm that there are no active plans to pursue the removal of Gidan_R.

This seems somewhat more ideas of grandeur, than the actual guns of blazing glory that you set it out to be. Should have kept to writing a newspaper, I actually really enjoyed it. 

The biggest tragedy in this entire affair is that Gidan_R has come out unscathed once again, that weasel, that slippery eel, that lubricated cucumber.

also RIP Zayne.

Rethcir, please refrain from besmirching Gidan_R's good name. He never chose to be natural rogue bait. No one does. He was just born that way. It's in his blood. 

I retract my former statement comparing Gidan_R to a lubricated cucumber.

Sorry bossman.

I had a young lad send tips for this speech. I enjoyed that it was honest and a better speech than that guy who spoke about anonymous something or other.

It does gladden me that even after the death of the speaker people are still coming around to visit and speak on what they heard. I am sure that speculation could be made that they couldn't speak up prior to the speakers death but not today.

It’s sad it has come to this, but it just goes to show that a cornered beast will always come out fighting. You can’t expect to push and taunt people and expect to receive no response. Ginger made a name for himself as an executioner for this regime, and that’s the sort of reputation that sticks around for a long time - for good or for ill. He bore the brunt of the ill-feeling, precisely because he was the axe-man for a regime whose reputation is in terminal decline, and when you have leading members of said regime suggesting a mass exodus instead of the usual “rank up and do something about it”, you have to be wary of the wrath of the Gods… after all the velvet rope treatment was cited for as one of the leading causes for the smiting of previous regimes. I hastened to add, I’m not suggesting or requesting divine intervention, just that there is precedent from previous experience with other leadership groups. How this time differs from previous iterations of this modus operandi is not for me to say, just that a lot of the characteristics and markers are similar in appearance.

Nevertheless, Rawley saw a disparity between loyalty expected and loyalty given, and he made a stand, knowing his time here was limited. I respect his courage and commitment, for standing up for what he believed in. If more people did the same, perhaps the leading advice at this juncture wouldn’t be mass emigration. Food for thought, or incitation to insurrection… take my advice as you hear it. I’m beyond trying anymore; the juice is simply not worth the squeeze - and that, listener, is by design in my humble opinion.

Stepping over the dead body he noticed the newspaper blowing by in the wind and some of the newspaper stands on fire

You had a good Godfather and a city that let you live and prosper even when others wanted you dead, and this is how you choose to repay them... pitiful

Throws the end of his cigar into a pile of newspapers and watches it all burn 

One person's version of a good Godfather may be very different from what you seem to think is good Striphe. Even I question when you say what is good leadership now.

That did not last very long, quite strong words from somebody who did very little. Agreeing with what Striphe said here in your betrayal, you were protected and given a home and its quite sad to see you turn on those who very much believed in and trusted you.

It seems that is the theme now days however, how can you even vet who will truly be loyal at this point? Seems that we have an issue in our world and I am sure you will not be the last one to prove this to us.

Dreams, that's what happens when your leaders do not respect their members. Killing off everyone they don't have in their rolodex makes the rest of the nation uneasy with serving them. 

No one can lead without support. These guys have been bombing their own support beams. Eventually the tower starts to crumble. 

Nobody can sit here and say with certainty he had solid protection. The actions of the squad dictate as much. 

 Killing off everyone they don't have in their rolodex makes the rest of the nation uneasy with serving them. 

And once again another is telling it like it is.