opnet [OpNet] Michaelites

[Johnny Magnum]

I've been seeing some protesters around Lincoln, makeing a lot of noise about me and my family has told me they've seen some strange people sneaking around every now and then. The local authorities aren't too sure, but I think it might be a branch of the Church of the Archangel Michael.

I mean, I'm a Christian and even went through Communion so I can understand some of that religious stuff, but these people are crazy. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with these guys?

[Matryoshka]

Well, you could counter their hate with hate.Bring down the furry of hell or heaven on to their heads.This will solve the short term problem.

Or one could meet their hate with tolerance and not judge them.This is often a hard thing to do.It does not always work.

Maybe you could treat them like people who do what they do.Do not act upon their motives.Forget why they do something,and react to what they do.

then again you could do something different.

[Jager]

Really, Lincoln?

If you like, I could stop by and talk to them about it. I'm just about freed up from helping a buddy move some stuff. I would be happy to lend a hand.

[Ian 'Very Bad' Blakely]

I've not lived in the states for the past six years, so I've little experience with these Michealites. But, from the sounds of it they are simply Ku Klux Klan part deaux. This being the case, what is the U.S. Federal government doing about them?

[Johnny Magnum]

Thanks for the offer Jager, but wouldn't the authorities pose a problem for you?

Yea, Mr. Blakely, it's a lot like the KKK my father and grandfather told me about. I took a look at some of their OpNet sites and I was really disturbed by what I read. I don't know if the government is doing anything about it, but I just can't understand how they could hate us so much.

[Wakinyan]

I have had one run in with a group of them. I will tell you now be very careful, they got Tornado and they almost got me. Not many things scare me more than zealots and they are the type to fly airplanes into the arcology.

[Preston]

Mr. Magnum, you are in a bad region of the country for their kind of activity. My suggestion is that you be aggressive in defending your civil liberties.

Contact the ACLU and the ADL.

Use every law enforcement contact you have to make sure that the cross every t and dot every i whenever the protest you, are have a demonstration.

Find out what your local DA considers verbal assualt.

Remember, these guys are serious. People 'associated' with CoMA will try every means, legal and illegal, to make your life uncomfortable to down-right lethal. I speak from personal experience. They damn near killed my son.

Also, they will have their own political and legal contacts, and they have deep pockets in the background.

Make sure you stay safe, and the people around you keep an eye out. They are not beyond going after the people who work with you, or your family.

Also, remember they have nothing to do with God, our Savior, or any angel in heaven. Theirs is a message of venom and hate.

[Redback]

Johnny, these Guys pop just like any other Human. If they threaten you in any way it's probably best just to pop them. They are quite powerful legally so just do a little eye-for-an-eye on them if you suspect them of any foul play.

[Great Monster C]

I've dealt with a few of these fanatics. I can calm the most red-faced and hostile Senator with just a few moments effort, but I swear I have never had to try harder than to calm down one of these yahoos.

I try not to interact with them all that often. I find racism to be quiet ugly.

[Interceptor]

I saw on a TV special how to deal with stalkers. If you can, hire a private eye. Have the private eye snoop around and find one or two of them, people with the possibly the best reputation in there, people with plenty to lose in other words. Then deliver a letter to that person indicating that what they are doing constitutes harrasment, and that they probably wouldn't appreciate it if a copy of this letter plus the evidence gathered were to make it to their boss, their parents and in-laws, the PTA and school board, their church (which might not be involved as of yet), and other people they're involved with whom he's keeping his activities a secret from.

This works rather well I'm told, with that evidence, include any harrassing evidence they supplied you with, notes for example. Their embarassment over this can work to your adavntage.

Michaelites might be prepared for that, or maybe just too fanataical. But it seemed like a good idea on TV.

[Charr]

Why wouldn't you just kill the little bastards when they make their move? Unlike a stalker, they don't want you in particular. They want US. If they can't get you they go for someone else. Why did you think chimps from the shallow end of the gene pool went after Houston Tornado?

Definitely a case of tolerance only encouraging.

[ronin]

I'm on Charr's side on this matter.

Michaelites have put themselves in a position of opposition against entities with powers that shake the heavens and hammer the earth.

Stupidity should be painful. If they don't fucking wise up, maybe it should be lethal. That's called "culling the weak", and you know what? It works pretty well in the animal kingdom, too.

[Machina]

I know all about some of you sick fucks. Fucking listen to yourself, you fucking jackbooted thugs. You're talking about killing people. They may be knuckle-dragging, cousin-fucking retards, but they're still people. They don't deserve to die just because their family tree looks like a stump.

No, you know what? On second thought, fuck it. Fuck them, and fuck you, too. You can all go fucking die.

[Charr]

People? Now there's the problem in a nutshell. You still think of high Lord and Lady Zip as people.

I say rip out the stump at the fucking root, insert a respectful moment of contemplation in fashinionable tree hugging sensitivity if that's your style and then piss down the hole. Don't forget to come back later to check and see what's sprouted. Repeat as necessary.

The image of me in jackboot was pretty fucking funny though. I'll take a dozen, all lefties.

[Sakurako Hino]

Quote:

Originally posted by ronin:
I'm on Charr's side on this matter.

Michaelites have put themselves in a position of opposition against entities with powers that shake the heavens and hammer the earth.

Stupidity should be painful. If they don't fucking wise up, maybe it should be lethal. That's called "culling the weak", and you know what? It works pretty well in the animal kingdom, too.

Yes, and it would do the Human genome some good to "trim the hedges" as it were. Just don't try to step on the ones that are still able to have their course reversed. Smite the guilty, save the innocent and the reformable, that's what I say.

Might make a point to the baselines that we do give a damn. Even if it only enhances our chances at survival.

[Charr]

Not bad but I still got a bone. Its not my doing zips need to suck at the tit of god bad enough to make one up so its not my responsibility. I'm still not interested in the job. Let the innocent make their own way as they're able or not. No scale off my tentacle either way.

The guilty are mine.

[Sakurako Hino]

You know, in the case of these scumbag CoMAs, go for it. I won't miss them wasting my oxygen.

Odd that I agree with our resident octapus, but, I guess it happens.

[Ghostwriter]

So what were those poor bastards at the Quantum Fountain guilty of, Charr?

[ronin]

They were guilty enough, Regan. I don't expect you to take my word for it, but I'm afraid you don't have much option.

I'm vouching for the tentacle monster.

[Machina]

Defense is one thing, you fucking morons. Everyone has the right to defend themselves. But let the inbred fucks have their little homo-erotic hate club. It gives the rest of us someone to feel better than.

[Sakurako Hino]

I'll be sure to remember that sentiment when a CoMA blows your node all over a wall with a shotgun.

[Machina]

Cute graphic, Sailor Pinhead, but like I said, I have the right -- and oh yeah, the means -- to defend myself. I have nothing to fear from the Church of the Archangel Mikey, but thank you for your touching concern.

[Charr]

Quote:

Originally posted by Regan 'Codex' McLachlan:
So what were those poor bastards at the Quantum Fountain guilty of, Charr?

Lots of things, Innocence.

Lots and lots of things.

[Singularity]

Quote:

Originally posted by Charr:
Lots of things, Innocence.

Lots and lots of things.

So, I would like to know too: what things did they do?

[ronin]

You're not in a position to know and the answer wouldn't mean anything to you. Besides, even telling you why telling you would be a risk is too much of a risk.

If you're going to do something about this, do it. Otherwise, stop asking questions.

[Charr]

Bad things.

There is no fucking denoument of a zip god waiting to be found tarnished under an rock or hidden away forgotten in the chimney soot, remember, Frankie? Did you want a handler to explain the hard things to you?

In a nutshell; get off your ass or snuggle down in that comfy cushion of irrelevancy.

[Hugin]

"Bad things"?

ronin, Charr, I'd appreciate an explanation please.

[Vincent Carver]

I think many of us would. "Bad Things" is a highly subjective term.

[Jager]

Quote:

Originally posted by Machina:
I know all about some of you sick fucks. Fucking listen to yourself, you fucking jackbooted thugs. You're talking about killing people. They may be knuckle-dragging, cousin-fucking retards, but they're still people. They don't deserve to die just because their family tree looks like a stump.

First off, I am not talking about killing every single Michaelite. When some racist wants to bad mouth me, I can cope, but when some rabid fanatic picks up some military grade bang-bangs, and comes after one of us who isn't careful enough, or blessed in the compative/negotiative arts, ... yeah, I take that as something sort of personal.

Quote:

Originally posted by Machina:
No, you know what? On second thought, fuck it. Fuck them, and fuck you, too. You can all go fucking die.

You first, if you don't mind. I would hate to think what you would put on my tombstone. You can trust me to put a satisfactory lie up on your memorial.

[Singularity]

Again you avoid, Charr. I am not asking about "divine justice," I asked what specifically did all of those baselines do at the club. Stop changing the topic.

[Machina]

Alright, blondy. For starters, it should be apparent to you with your infinite fucking wisdom that I in all likelihood was not referring to you. Did you endorese the wholesale slaugher of an entire subculture of shaved proto-apes? No? Then shut the hell up.

If you'd bothered to read what I'd written since then you'd see... ...nah, fuck it. Know what? Read it, putz.

[Jager]

Brainiac, before you go insulting another's literary dedication, please take a look at this:

You can all go fucking die. - Machina 2004

And, if you had read what I said, you would know that I don't support wholesale slaughter of a group based on their moral, philisophical, or political beliefs. It is when members of that group move from speech and thought into action that I chose to act. The gun doesn't have to be aimed at me, or even another nova. Their decision to chose violence is enough for me.

Yes, I'm judgemental.

[Charr]

Quote:

Originally posted by Franklin 'Singularity' Alden:
Again you avoid, Charr. I am not asking about "divine justice," I asked what specifically did all of those baselines do at the club. Stop changing the topic.

And I say I'm not your handler at Club U or DeRanged Inc employed to break it down into easy to digest morsels so someone else can make the hard decisions for you between your tennis game and the next power shake.

Get off your ass or go fuck yourself. I'm the deranged psycho killer, remember? What the hell do I care what you think. Especially when you can't grasp that your inability to comprehend the most basic ideas in the world don't constitute a "topic change." Aww fuck it. Here's another pity moment assist for you;

<font size="6">Its the same topic. Its always been the same topic.

<font size="1">... inbred moron.

[Hugin]

Charr, I believe I did ask a fairly simple question and would like to think that you and I could communicate without any need for philosophical instruction. If you do not feel comfortable shouting it from the rooftops, I understand. Contact me privately in a manner of your choosing.

[Singularity]

Well then, Charr, never let me say you are not well versed in the ways of rhetoric...

[Charr]

Frankie it would mean more coming from someone less dense. Serve yourself up another latte while you're wondering what the fuck is going on and fetch one for Innocence while you're at it. Sucks to be irrelevant but then it was your bold personal choices. You're the ones bitching about not understanding what you never bothered to look into.

I'm just fine with the situation.

Sure Prodigy.