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| Day of Reckoning | Started by: Caligula on Oct 04, '08 06:50 |
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"To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country. Let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of." Of all of you here, perhaps nobody is more surprised than me that it has come to this. The Java Cartel and their allies were my home and my heart - but the events of the past few weeks are too grave to be ignored any longer. Iris, your leadership, while holding much promise, has stagnated and operates as a throttle, not only on this world as a whole, but on your own family. Our loyalty was yours for the taking - but your actions, and in some cases your inactions, have destroyed it. Your unwillingness to act in the face of clear risks was inexcusable, and your own captain Kangaroo paid the price of that error with his life. The Mocha Syndicate (II) will not sit here like a sitting ducks and wait for the same fate. Your treatment of your own hitters, many of whom sit inside the walls of my HQ, is indifferent at best and contemptuous at worst. Perhaps now you will learn that sticking your head in the sand and leaving rooms in a flurry of drama, pretending to be called away, rather than honestly face the concerns and opinions of your family can only breed resentment when it continues as long as it has in this instance. While you preach day and night about the difference between this world and the coffee shops, you simultaneously allow your coffee shop relationship with Daera to excuse consistent actions from New York that should warrant death - I know members of your own upper structure agree on this point. Is there any member of the Java Cartel that a rogue from his family could kill and it would bring you charging to the war room? The answer to that is clear to all - your priorities have needed addressing for a very long time. Although you will protest to the contrary, it is clear to anyone vaguely involved with the dynamics of this world that Daera gains all his strength for his illogical and tempestuous threats to other families from you and the implicit assurance that exists between you both that neither will ever attack the other - you always said you would rather die first. Here is your chance. My bloodline is not old. It is not, previous to this point, particularly well known. I do not regularly frequent the #divinelunacy coffee shop. As your captain, I felt that it was a step on the way to proving myself and becoming a leader in this thing of ours - but that was never going to happen. My usefulness to you, and the usefulness of my family, began and ended with our membership of your hitsquad, and it is not enough. It is not enough and it is not good enough for our families to be smothered in case we end up posing any threat to the status quo and the big mouths from the coffee shops. To be quite blunt - if we want our chance, then it seems yours has to come to an end. Daera - very little is needed to justify or explain our attempt to remove you. You have thrown your unsubstantial weight around by threatening our members and allowing your upper structure to do the same for weeks now. You do so not based on any strength of your own - the number of high rankers of yours appearing in the obits as worthy targets for our troops is evidence enough of that. Instead, your crutch and your only source of power is your coffee shop relationship with Don Iris. Our attempt to remove her will naturally lead to an attempt to remove you for that very reason, and the converse would also true. It is an elite relationship and its requirements and needs will always exceed ours. None of the rest of us are party to it - thus it is not in our interests to dedicate our lives to sustaining it. You may both want to be Godfathers. Then earn it in a real way, and beat us here tonight. Those of you who know me and my comrades, Don Branston and Don Mont, will know that this decision was not taken lightly. We take our families into this war knowing that there is a high chance that we will not come out the other side. For this, some will call us irresponsible, or selfish. However, the reality behind our actions could not be further from that accusation. We act out of a shared desire to rid this world of the inertia that has plagued and consumed it. We hope to give voice to the many people who have clamoured for action and exciting times, and for whom a spammy Street riddled left and right with cliquish in-jokes is just not enough to keep them here. Like that superhero from the future, Barack Obama, we act not because we think the current dominating forces do not care about this world - but rather because we feel they do not understand what really drives it. And most importantly, we act because we feel that these dominating forces have squandered and spoiled their chances, and that the inactivity and lethargy of this world should prove to be their confounding epitaph. We may not succeed. People may speak to reply to this speech in my funeral mass, rather than here in the Street. But in trying, we hope to return to this world some of the undulating ebbs and flows and significant events, power shifts that kept people's attention and whose absence has been sorely missed, even by those who will curse me here today - although they will not admit it in public. Am I a traitor? I am sure that this charge will be levied at me in particular over the coming hours and perhaps, days. To my accusors, I say this - remember what sort of thing this is. Remember that family feuds, crime, lies, and deceit form the very foundation of a criminal mob, and that your perspective of how 'right' or otherwise the actions of individuals are tends to depend on which end of the bullet you are looking at. Crucially, remember that my own former leader, Iris, was instated in her position by individuals whose personal betrayal to their family leaders was unambiguous and total. Remember that in her lifetime, she has consistently feted and praised those actions in a manner which cannot be considered to be anything less than showing a clear example to those who learned at her knee. We cannot choose only to condemn such actions when they do not fall in our favour. Our standards must be singular. These reasons, and more which will be elaborated on by others, make up the sum of our decision to make this move today. I expect many of you to disagree, and to hate us, but similarly I expect many of you to welcome it and see past your own immediate interests to what is really driving this world, and what keeps us coming back again and again - the excitement and the danger of days like these, which shift power and continue the inevitable cycle of change that prevents damning stagnation and paralysis, and cannot be equalled by any amount of competitions in the Street. It is precisely these shifts that promote meaningful, well thought out speeches and debates that do not smell like convoluted and inauthentic spam, but rather represent the real social and community interaction that some say they long for. Join us, throw abuse at us, stick pins in dolls representing us if you wish. Either way, I'm pretty damn sure you won't be popping out for a pint of milk any time soon. And that's what you all wanted, right? Project YourMum - In Your Fat Chops. |
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| You had your chance at the top and you've proved once again how truly incapable you are. Congratulations Daera. I expected absolutely nothing less. | |
| Reply by: Medulla at Oct 04, '08 06:58 | |
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I see dead people. Scampers |
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| Reply by: Remake at Oct 04, '08 07:18 | |
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Caligula, I wonder if you recall a time when Denver died for voicing these very concerns to you in a poorly worded MM? Good times. |
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| Reply by: Yates at Oct 04, '08 08:56 | |
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| So basically the lesson to take away from this is "Wah wah, I'm a little bitch". | |
| Reply by: Ipooh at Oct 04, '08 12:33 | |
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little bitches, with big guns sadly. Project Your Mum - In your fat chops. |
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| Reply by: Branston at Oct 04, '08 12:35 | |
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To: Branston From: Ipooh Sent: Oct 04, '08 12:38 Subject: PS. I gave Riley money to buy out and shoot greg. Eat it, bitch. ^^ Hmmm. Seems we were right on the button there, actually. |
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| Reply by: Zephyr at Oct 04, '08 12:40 | |
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| I love it when dead Dons throw tantrums. RIP. | |
| Reply by: Caligula at Oct 04, '08 12:42 | |
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Am I throwing a tantrum? No, I'm just speaking the truth. I, for one, welcome our new CP overlords. |
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| Reply by: Ipooh at Oct 04, '08 12:45 | |
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| Lol really? Where are they? Me, Fake, Greg, Tita and Cam are all below earner. :S | |
| Reply by: Zephyr at Oct 04, '08 12:48 | |
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| Did you find them? | |
| Reply by: Zephyr at Oct 04, '08 12:58 | |
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| Well there's one at the rank of Don, so there's that. | |
| Reply by: Ipooh at Oct 04, '08 12:59 | |
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| Except, not. | |
| Reply by: Zephyr at Oct 04, '08 13:00 | |
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Sure sure, Jamz. I is teh sorry for insinumating that Branston iz CP. They want to have teh undercover member so will never acknowledge him az CP. I iz so so sorry for making people think that Branston iz CP. |
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| Reply by: Ipooh at Oct 04, '08 13:01 | |
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| We shall have our revenge | |
| Reply by: LuckyLuca at Oct 04, '08 13:26 | |
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Hahaha, I appreciate the enthusiasm, Luca, I really do. But honestly, right now, even thinking we have a chance at revenge is a bigger self-delusion than Clipper thinking he has any value to society at all. Face it, we got bent over. But that's the way this life goes. |
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| Reply by: Ipooh at Oct 04, '08 13:28 | |
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| I wouldn't rule it out. All sorts of odd things happen here. | |
| Reply by: Numbers4BrainTrust at Oct 04, '08 13:38 | |
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| You got bent over because you were rubbish at being a power hungry Don. | |
| Reply by: GeorgeAgdgdwngo at Oct 04, '08 13:39 | |
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It's cute that the dumb little Wise Guy thinks he knows me. Power hungry? I never WANTED power you idiot. Honestly, being a crewleader was never one of my goals or desires, it simply came about and happened. I lived every single day expecting to wake up dead, and today it happened. Do I think Project Whatever's reasons are bogus? Absolutely. But they are their reasons, so oh well. They had an opportunity and they took it. Am I upset? Of course I am. But they saw an opportunity and they took it, and unlike most people lately, they actually know how to run a war. So good on them. I'm sorry for saying that I regret giving Branston a chance. Honestly, even given everything that's happened, that's the one thing I absolutely don't regret. I wish things had ended differently, obviously, but this is the mafia and everything eventually ends. |
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| Reply by: Ipooh at Oct 04, '08 13:47 | |
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| Thank fuck for that as well. | |
| Reply by: Oblongata at Oct 04, '08 13:58 | |
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