A complete, and unedited transcript of the speech held by Simon Silverstone in Old Athen the evening of August 22, 29476:
Loyalist clan members, friends and comrades – our freedom and future is being held hostage by corporate criminals!
We have just been informed that the ICC and their so-called ‘Peacekeepers’ are on course for Rubi-Ka.
They will no doubt attempt to shroud their intentions with hegemonic slogans like ‘protecting innocent civilians’, and ‘maintaining peace and order’.
This is nothing but blatant lies, exorbitant paraphrasing, and corporate rhetoric. After all, who is the ICC – the ‘Intergalactic Confederation of *Corporations*’ – coming here to protect and assist? Me? You? Honest, hardworking clan members? Lazy, two-faced neutrals? Corporation employees?
No one, not one person here, is wide-eyed enough to believe these bedtime stories. The ICC is merely protecting the interests of the corporations it serves. The ICC wants to ensure the continued exploitation of Rubi-Ka's natural resources, of notum, so that the corporations can keep fattening themselves on the carcass of freedom and justice!
The ICC, Omni-Tek, and the Council of "Truth" - they are nothing but the whores of profit, wallowing in a capitalistic bed of fornication, conspiring to silence the voice of reason with every underhanded means at their disposal; be it the Peacekeepers, Omni-Tek's Armed Forces, or propaganda about the Dust Brigade's supposed ‘terrorist attacks’.
If we are to avoid being devoured by the corporate machine, we have to act now. The time of diplomacy and feeble inaction has to end.
I, Simon Silverstone, and the Sentinels will support anyone, any individual, clan, or organisation with the courage to stand up to the Council of Truth and its faithful flock. We are clan members, not sheep, and we have to fight the sheepherders with every means at our disposal:
Our hearts, or minds... and our guns!
We have nothing at all to lose. We cannot lose. We are the David of our times, standing up against the giant Goliath. We are the wrathful angles of mercy, facing the injustice of the demons of Mammon.
As we speak, a wind of change is blowing over the hot sands of Rubi-Ka, and we are approaching a time when history can be rewritten by our hands. This is the moment when we have to make a difference, stand up and be counted, in the name of our birthrights to human dignity, and a life free of the corporate shackles!
With justice on trial and the jury in deliberation, time is precious. There has been too much talk. If we are to avoid a favourable ruling for the plaintiff, we have to make a closing argument too strong to be overruled. Too strong to ignore! Too strong for Peacekeepers or soldiers or ‘loyal employees’ to stand up against! A tide greater than all the waves of the sea will sweep across Rubi-Ka, and you - all of you - will ride the crest of that tide to victory!
A new sun will rise on Rubi-Ka, and it will be coloured blood red.
