09 January PAe 84- REMEMBER BUDAPEST

An editorial submitted by Timothy H Bower, a leader of the City of Light Society. 

REMEMBER BUDAPEST
Rumors have been coming in from the Nightlands that several of the tribes have been organizing themselves into a crude "Senate." Though many of those inclined to excuse the uncivilized for their failure to conform to British American society point to this as a sign of increasing civilization and of the desire of these tribal groups to provide for law and order, we in the City of Light Society would urge caution in embracing such a group too quickly. Elements of this "Senate" include the Fulmene Ferri, who until recently were an outlawed group for their murder of a large number of Colorado Volunteers, the Red Hands, known thugs and mercenaries, and the Glass Knives, who are quickly becoming infamous as swindlers and thieves in some of the lower St Louis markets. Are we truly to trust that such groups have suddenly had a change of heart and wish to enforce crown law?

Or is it more likely that these groups have ulterior motives in their organization? Have we, in less than thirty years, forgotten that Budapest was destroyed because it was threatened by an organized Nightman army? That those countless thousands of souls were lost because the savages among us could not wait and work for their chance at the benefits of civilization but would rather act as the savage horde at the gates, ready to rape and pillage and burn to wrest those things from the hands of those who had earned them?

Such a group represents a new type of savage horde. Whether their act of war will come in the form of torches and crude weapons at the city gates or a seditious undermining of the authority of the His Majesty Edward VIII and His government, it will come. We cannot ignore or excuse the barbarians at the gates any longer-the Cities and those who live under law and order, under the auspices of proper British civilization, under the authority of God, King, and Country, must defend themselves.