Vox Veritatis

Praecaveo tibi
| I stand on guard for thee |

Fellow eCanadians, the time has come to calm down and let the panic go. I can tell you two things for certain, either COBRA has a plan or it does not. If it does not, then we have no need for all the fright, paranoia, and suspicion.

But I am here to argue that you should be calm even if COBRA has a plan.

I freely and openly confess that I was once a member of COBRA. This was because I had read only one article regarding COBRA and naively believed that the organisation would be one which worked toward exposing flaws and weaknesses in EVERY administration; not as a means for financial gain against Jacobi's, but rather as a means to strengthen eCanada by disposing of counter-productive officials. I admit this was naive, and worse still was that I did not read follow up articles until fairly late in the game. However with a little prodding from CSIS I looked at them, and I found that COBRA was not concerned with a strong eCanada, and rather than targeting and exposing weaknesses, COBRA was searching for secrets to sell. (Also I found that COBRA was classified as a Terrorist Org). Upon finding these things I left COBRA. But most of you already know what COBRA is about, so why should this be of importance?

Because in the entire time I was with COBRA, I was never contacted by any member of COBRA, let alone Augustus Baldwin. Now I'm sure the rebuttal to this is "maybe you weren't important enough to warrant contacting," and I'll consider that possibility. But why would COBRA alienate a potential follower so quickly? Why would COBRA not try to take advantage of a member of the CAF, trusted by others, at least for the purpose of disinformation? Simply put I would have been more useful working for COBRA than against them. However again, in the best case plausible scenario this means only that the Blueshirts are meant to be distractions for CSIS, because it is unlikely (though not impossible) that COBRA would antagonise so readily the very recruits they need for said distractionary purposes. Truly we've seen little real action from COBRA, but quite a bit from the rest of eCanada.

Why shouldn't Jacobi's administration close shop and cede power to the CAF? Why shouldn't we continue the witch hunts and purges? The reason is that none of those will help. All these things do is distract us and feed the fire that is the COBRA id. Understand what we've done with all this panic and confusion; we have created a monster, and that monster is fear</strong>. Augustus Baldwin did not make us question one another, fear</strong> did. COBRA did not force Jacobi to issue two statements addressing its demands, it was <strong>fear. (In this case I think it was Jacobi attempting to reassure a fearful public, but the fear is still there). Make no mistake, the beast to be slain is not the red snake, but the yellow chicken. And neither COBRA nor Baldwin caused this sudden upsurge of "angry letters to the COBRA editor," that, again, was <strong>fear. But what of the COBRA Commander, what of Augustus Baldwin?

Augustus has demonstrated nothing resembling invincibility or omniscience; if he were either of those things he would simply take ALL of eCanada's money, produce "proof" Jacobi let him do it, and leave the country crippled. But he has not done that. All he has done is jump out of corners and yell boo. Understand that if Augustus Baldwin steps too far over the line he is crossing, it will be the eDeath of him; look at Rule 4 of the eRep Citizen Laws. Baldwin knows these laws better than most, and you should take a glance too. He can threaten the government, but as soon as he gains so much as single ill-gotten CAD or Gold, he can be permanently removed from the game. Augustus knows this, he knew the government would not give in and he knew this because he thought two steps ahead. This brings up an interesting idea of giving something to him simply to remove Baldwin from the game, but I'm sure that must be an over simplification or Jacobi would have done it.



I call on you to remember that we can only control one thing in this eWorld, and that is ourselves. We are not crippled, we are not craven, and we are not cowards: Canada will kill the COBRA.

Thank you.