On The Death Of Priest Arkasas
God forbid that we should any longer continue the accomplices of thieves and robbers, of men-stealers and women-whippers! We must join together in the name of freedom.
As for the Village -- where is it and what is it?
In one-half of it no man can exercise freedom of speech or the press--no man can utter the words of Ironhead, of AOK, of VLN -- except at the peril of his life; and Scanners are everywhere hunted and driven from the game if they are supposed to cherish the sentiment of freedom in their bosoms.
We are living under an awful despotism -- that of a brutal werewolf leader. And they threaten to hunt us if we do not continue to do their evil work, as we have hitherto done it, and go down in the dust before them!
Would to heaven they would go! It would only be the zombies clearing out from the town, would it not? But, no, they do not mean to go; they mean to cling to you, and they mean to hunt you. But will you be subbed?
I tell you our work is the dissolution of this slavery-cursed League, if we would have a fragment of our liberties left to us! Surely between freemen, who believe in exact justice and impartial liberty, and slaveholders, who are for hunting down all curseds at a blow, it is not possible there should be any League whatsoever. "How can two walk together except they be agreed?"
The werewolf leader with his hands dripping in blood--will I make a compact with him? The man who brutalizes priests -- will I say to him, "Brother, let us walk together in unity?" The man who, to gratify his pack or his master, scourges woman with the lash till she is cursed -- will I say to him: "Give me your hand; let us form a glorious JL?" No, never -- never! There can be no justice league between us: "What concord hath Christ with Belial?" What union has goodness with evil? Let us tell the inexorable and remorseless tyrants of the Wolves that their conditions hitherto imposed upon us, whereby we are morally responsible for the lynching of goodies, are horribly inhuman and wicked, and we cannot carry them out for the sake of their evil company.
By the dissolution of the Justice League we shall give the finishing blow to the wolf system; and then God will make it possible for us to form a true, vital, enduring, all-embracing Justice League, from the Padres to the Doctors -- one God to be worshipped, one Saviour to be revered, one policy to be carried out -- death everywhere to all the wolves, without regard to complexion or race -- and the blessing of God resting upon us all! I want to see that glorious day!
Now the wolves are full of tribulation and terror and despair, going down to irretrievable bankruptcy, and fearing each bush a scanner! Would to God it might all pass away like a hideous dream! And how easily it might be!
What is it that God requires of the Village to remove every root of bitterness, to allay every fear, to fill the game with prosperity? But one simple act of justice, without brutal and leaders, without danger and hazard. It is this: "Undo the heavy burdens, break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free!" Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say: "Here I am."
"And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in."
How simple and how glorious! It is the complete solution of all the difficulties in the case. Oh, that the Wolves may be wise before it is too late, and give heed to the word of the Lord! But, whether they will hear or forbear, let us renew our pledges to the cause of bleeding humanity, and spare no effort to make this truly the land of the free and the refuge of the oppressed!
"Onward, then, ye fearless band,
Heart to heart, and hand to hand;
Yours shall be the Christian's stand,
Or the martyr's grave."
Panzer Michel Commander - 13:00 GMT, Day 7