There are far more questions than answers when trying to discern the actual causes of the blight currently affecting agricultural output and putting the lives of billions at risk. I personally believe this is part of a deeper conspiracy involving powerful people operating from the shadows, above the law, since such conspiracies have been proven to exist in the past and present.
The current campaign against Scythe of Panem is illegal, unjust, and a denial of basic human rights.
To wit:
"Our investigation has confirmed that an activist group known as Scythe of Panem managed to infiltrate Rockforth Corporation manufacturing plants in the Riedquat system. Members of the group contaminated the EX7 fertiliser with a synthetic agent designed to putrefy plant matter."
Based on the above, CMDRs have been asked to summarily execute any members of the above faction without a formal presentation of evidence or trial. They have essentially been declared "terrorists", thus allowing those in power to deny SoP members' basic right to due process.
What evidence, exactly, did this "investigation" uncover? Merely stating that there was an investigation that implicated SoP is not evidence of their guilt, and yet this is the justification being provided to the executioners tasked with the destruction of SoP vessels. Will authorities not elaborate or release the results of this investigation, if an investigation even took place?
"The group’s manifesto discusses revenge for the Federation’s 3301 campaign to wipe out the recreational drug known as Onion Head. This involved an orbital bombardment of Onion Head crops on Panem using biocides with a similar genomic structure to the blight. It’s likely that the activists used these biocides as the foundation of their synthetic agent."
Where is this "manifesto", if one even exists? Surely this manifesto has been made public! I have conducted searches in the Galnet archives (colloquially known by its 21st century name 'Google'). No records of this manifesto exist. Release this manifesto and allow us to read it for ourselves.
Here we also have an admission that a major superpower engaged in a violent, indiscriminate attack on people and property based on said power's subjective, antiquated, and authoritarian stance on people's right to privacy and control over their own bodies. And therefore, is it a surprise that the victims of these attacks resort to violence in their own self-defense? What choice does a small faction have against the might of a superpower, other than violent resistance? The Federation and other superpowers have shown a willingness to unilaterally use extreme violence to achieve their ends, but apparently reserve that right entirely for themselves. Anyone who disagrees with them, or fights back in kind, is labelled a terrorist in [largely state controlled] media outlets.
But we see an even more damning admission in the above statement. Yes, perhaps this unjust and illegal bombardment of Panem gave SoP access to these biocides. But who created, possessed, and utilized these biocides in the first place? The Federation. So if the only evidence implicating SoP is their mere access to these biocides, then by that logic, the Federation should be suspected as well, since they created these biocides to begin with!
[And as a reminder, this is the same Federation which supported the highly unethical and secretive organization known as INRA, which developed another biological weapon, the deployment of which had far ranging consequences: the mycoid virus.]
In short, the connection between Scythe of Panem and the current emergency is tenuous at best. Before engaging in the wholesale slaughter of this faction's pilots, CMDRs need to be presented with actual evidence connecting SoP to the blight. Often, members of the Pilot's Federation cry out for transparency and communication.
But here, many willingly accept what they are told and carry out the orders of others based on nothing but unfounded accusations with little to no actual evidence!
I stand with Scythe of Panem, not necessarily because they are innocent, but because the "state" has failed to meet its burden of proof in terms of implicating them in this disaster, the major powers have a history of manipulating events for the own ends, and have access to the very biocide they accuse others of deploying and they themselves have deployed in the past. I call on CMDRs to fight back against this injustice and destroy any ships operating on behalf of this campaign in the Quator system. Do not become sheep and fall into bovine servility like so many others!
The current campaign against Scythe of Panem is illegal, unjust, and a denial of basic human rights.
To wit:
"Our investigation has confirmed that an activist group known as Scythe of Panem managed to infiltrate Rockforth Corporation manufacturing plants in the Riedquat system. Members of the group contaminated the EX7 fertiliser with a synthetic agent designed to putrefy plant matter."
Based on the above, CMDRs have been asked to summarily execute any members of the above faction without a formal presentation of evidence or trial. They have essentially been declared "terrorists", thus allowing those in power to deny SoP members' basic right to due process.
What evidence, exactly, did this "investigation" uncover? Merely stating that there was an investigation that implicated SoP is not evidence of their guilt, and yet this is the justification being provided to the executioners tasked with the destruction of SoP vessels. Will authorities not elaborate or release the results of this investigation, if an investigation even took place?
"The group’s manifesto discusses revenge for the Federation’s 3301 campaign to wipe out the recreational drug known as Onion Head. This involved an orbital bombardment of Onion Head crops on Panem using biocides with a similar genomic structure to the blight. It’s likely that the activists used these biocides as the foundation of their synthetic agent."
Where is this "manifesto", if one even exists? Surely this manifesto has been made public! I have conducted searches in the Galnet archives (colloquially known by its 21st century name 'Google'). No records of this manifesto exist. Release this manifesto and allow us to read it for ourselves.
Here we also have an admission that a major superpower engaged in a violent, indiscriminate attack on people and property based on said power's subjective, antiquated, and authoritarian stance on people's right to privacy and control over their own bodies. And therefore, is it a surprise that the victims of these attacks resort to violence in their own self-defense? What choice does a small faction have against the might of a superpower, other than violent resistance? The Federation and other superpowers have shown a willingness to unilaterally use extreme violence to achieve their ends, but apparently reserve that right entirely for themselves. Anyone who disagrees with them, or fights back in kind, is labelled a terrorist in [largely state controlled] media outlets.
But we see an even more damning admission in the above statement. Yes, perhaps this unjust and illegal bombardment of Panem gave SoP access to these biocides. But who created, possessed, and utilized these biocides in the first place? The Federation. So if the only evidence implicating SoP is their mere access to these biocides, then by that logic, the Federation should be suspected as well, since they created these biocides to begin with!
[And as a reminder, this is the same Federation which supported the highly unethical and secretive organization known as INRA, which developed another biological weapon, the deployment of which had far ranging consequences: the mycoid virus.]
In short, the connection between Scythe of Panem and the current emergency is tenuous at best. Before engaging in the wholesale slaughter of this faction's pilots, CMDRs need to be presented with actual evidence connecting SoP to the blight. Often, members of the Pilot's Federation cry out for transparency and communication.
But here, many willingly accept what they are told and carry out the orders of others based on nothing but unfounded accusations with little to no actual evidence!I stand with Scythe of Panem, not necessarily because they are innocent, but because the "state" has failed to meet its burden of proof in terms of implicating them in this disaster, the major powers have a history of manipulating events for the own ends, and have access to the very biocide they accuse others of deploying and they themselves have deployed in the past. I call on CMDRs to fight back against this injustice and destroy any ships operating on behalf of this campaign in the Quator system. Do not become sheep and fall into bovine servility like so many others!
