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Justification of Means and Methods as a Post-Matsuda Chrysanthemum Organization
Kisune et al

The Kusari state will only survive if pressured into drastic changes by a restructured Chrystanthemum Movement. Previously, the Chrysanthemums, as an extension of the honorable Koutaigou Matsuda's struggle for women's rights, has found itself in many compromising situations and alliances, and found its goals diluted and its purpose suborned by such friends and allies as the Blood Dragon remnants of Hideoshi's Guard, and the Maltese Nation. Because no other organization is amenable to such a path, it is the duty of the Chrysanthemum movement to broaden its gaze and its message, to strive, alongside the venerable goal of women's rights, mass enfranchisement, a liberal public education for all children, a separation of the corporate sphere from that of the state, a dismembering of the strongly megacorporate monopolies which dominate our concerns, and a liberal system of social mobility, as it is only these things, and these things taken together, which can defend themselves and one another after the conflict, from the ravishes of autocractic governments, megacorporate domination, and traditions of subjugation or stagnation. Only in such a Kusari will the populace be free, and in no other Kusari should the populace be forced to labor.

As Kusari currently stands, Kogen's empire finds itself not only subservient to the Samura Megacorporate Lobby, but stricken with crime and riddled with addiction to the slave-posion of choice, the Maltese Nation's only export, Cardamine. Is it not demonstrate-able that the Empire has lost the respect of the governed, when so many of the Empire's youth would rather subject themselves to an obvious dependence on the drugs and leadership of the Maltese than to their own Emperor? And how could the senpai-kōhai Empire regain the respect of the youth, when it kowtows to the demands of Samura? Does it not seem that the Samura are those who rule, and thus would deserve respect?

Why not respect Samura, then, and beg of it the solutions to the increasingly rampant problems which face our nation, then? Because Samura itself is morally compromised along its most basic foundation: it is a business, one grown so mighty and grotesque through its relentless dedication to the worship of the bottom line, the net gain in monetary value, that it has brought about these very problems. It has suborned the government, causing many of the weaknesses which have let these evils in. It has encouraged and financed its own criminal empire, the Hogosha and the Farmer's Alliance, grown on the whispered promises of wealth and power if only Samura is allowed to succeed, to corner every market and control every resource. Undoubtedly, were it to achieve such a monopoly, there would be potential for great wealth, but anyone convinced that any corporation founded and nurtured on the ideals of top down management and winner take all market economics will spread its wealth around is sorely mistaken. Samura seeks to buy the land, then the farms, the water, the air. Samura seeks to control every resource, every input to production, in an effort to succeed in the galactic market...and that is indeed what the Tau war is about, controlling every resource, owning everything. What those who favor Samura's ascendancy don't understand is that finally, people will be the last remaining input to production...and Samura will seek to own us as well. One must understand that this is the nature of the large corporations, of the struggle of the market, and in understanding that, seek a government which pits itself in opposition to the growth of supercorporations...For this, the current regime must be deposed, and Samura with it.

Then, of course, the question is whether the Blood Dragons should be allowed, encouraged, or aided in their efforts to reestablish the Hideoshi Shogunate, once Kogen's Empire is removed. It should not, in any way, be allowed to do so. The Blood Dragons are centuries out of touch with the pulse of the people, and though they've lived by their talent as warriors, that does not make them able rulers, merely brilliant soldiers. Furthermore, it was the Hideoshi Shogunate which first showed the weaknesses which allowed Samura to come to power. Finally, the entire model of the Empire must be changed, not simply have its head replaced, because any autocratic society finds itself vulnerable to changes of oppinion at the head, whether through coup or by lawful succession.

Only a massively educated and enfranchised public is safeguard against such tyranny, and such an educated and enfranchised public will pursue liberal policies of equal chances for all because it is fist of all the most efficient route, and secondly because bias and bigotry is the child of ignorance. Educate the populace, and a disdain of women will disappear, because women given the same opportunities are the equals of men, and the men will see that, or lose their positions. Currently, because Samura controls the monster's share of the market, Samura's work-place is not a competitive market, but a monopolistic one. Men hold all the positions, and the corporation itself doesn't face competition on a scale large enough to seek more efficient strategies, and so it must be broken down into a competing market, rather than a single monopolistic concern. Finally, the populace must be given a major roll in their own government, so that they have a stake in observing its inner workings.

Though the long term goal of the Chrysanthemums has long been, as per the Matsuda following, equal rights for women, In a post-Matsuda Chrysanthemum organization, the goal is survivability of the Kusari people, which has as one of its many positive offshoots, equal rights for women, and an increasingly free and stable Kusari.

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