Gaians and Corsairs

[bluntpencil2001]

People are stupid herd animals by nature, infinitely predictable, & easily distracted by propaganda. Like it or not, the Green Front provides propaganda to the people. Some buy into it, some don't, but the biggest victory that the GF has achieved is forcing an amount of tolerance within the Bret Gov't itself because of fearful polititians that don't wan't to rock the boat with their Cambridge constituency.

I have trouble buying this. In real life, I would have to use the Sinn Fein/IRA links as an example, Sinn Fein have, in the past, had links to the IRA. They cut links to them due to being in favour of due political process.

When the Gaians are terrorists who commit murder to keep lifeless rocks lifeless, they aren't going to get support.

Now, the Green Front might get support, like Greenpeace do in real life, but that doesn't mean that the people will support the Gaians. In fact, the people would probably hate the Gaians, since they're treasonous, murdering terrorists. Even those that agree with their goals would likely dislike them for making them look bad.

For instance, would Greenpeace activists support murder in the name of the environment? I doubt it. Would they support treason? I doubt that too.

Hell, in real life, the Earth Liberation Front don't get support from Greenpeace, despite not killing anyone, only doing property damage. They don't have mass support. Those with similar goals dislike them. Add to the fact that the Gaians rob and kill people like any other criminal and you lose lots of support.

Also, you go on about in-game RP altering the diplomacy and such (and I really think the Gaians should be shooting up Samura Heavy Industry). I've seen little in-game RP convincing me that the Gaians are anything but terrorists and murderers with no public support. I have, however, seen Bretonian officials letting the people know that they're criminals of the worst sort. I've also seen propaganda messages which seem like threats. The sort of thing that will make the people act like cornered badgers instead of happy sheep.

Humans aren't herd animals, anyway... they're pack animals, like wolves, jackals and the like.:D

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