Originally Posted by Lexical
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Dear mobs: I understand the above parties are trolling so that my 6000th reply will be removed. Do not give them that.
Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of moderating, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against moderating, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon, of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many Continental tyrants. Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of sea power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised.
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our forum home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of trolling, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of Rogean's Government — every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The P99 Empire and its people, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of the Internet and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of Trolldom and all the odious apparatus of Troll rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the forums, we shall fight on the BBS and usenet, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the IRC channels, we shall defend our community, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the websites, we shall fight on the blogs, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the posts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this community or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the moderators, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
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01-29-2013, 09:55 PM
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