To the Populaces of Bretonia and Rheinland

[Wellingtons]

Incoming Transmission
Encryption Level: Civilian
CommID: Lee Adama
Message Target: Populaces of Bretonia and Rheinland
Message Source: Error
Subject: Informing you off your mistakes

Good Evening Bretonia and Rheinland. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any man. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death , the end of some awful bloody struggle or a union are celebrated with a nice holiday. I thought we could mark this July the Twenty Eighth a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.

There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the annunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with both houses, isn't there?

Cruelty and injustice...intolerance and oppression. Where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told...if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a compounding pile of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to the now Chancellor Rheinhardt, his lordship Prime Minister Mountbatten and their respective military heads. They promised you order. They promised you peace. All they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I sought peace to ensure the survival of both Rheinland and Bretonia. More than 1000 years ago, one great person joined two war mongering countries together and embedded unity in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, freedom and peace are more than words - they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of both governments remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the twenty eighth of July to go unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek...then I ask you to stand beside me, 5 days from now, outside the gates of Parliament and the Reichstag, and together, we shall give them a twenty eight of July that shall never, ever, be forgot!

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Captain Natasha Skylen|The.Goldfinch