smashacademy

What a hectic week that was... I can scarcely remember most of it, but I had enough cognitive capacity left in me to understand that I had been changed into a Tangrowth and shifted priorities completely. Whatever may have come of that to produce negative results, I must apologize. Cress was rather... clingy.

Brushing that aside, may I bring up an issue that has been bothering me since the day it was instated? I understand the necessity of an alternate means of governance to suppress the riots, but surely there remains enough stability to call off martial law by now... I have been observing the news almost religiously, and the levels of mayhem have decreased significantly over time. Moreover, the robot force, while successful in getting the public dissonance to simmer down, appear to have unintentionally created side-effects. In times of crisis, it is natural for some freedoms to be limited by necessity, but some of them are completely arbitrary to keeping the public at rest and, as such, uncalled for. While efficient at taking commands and carrying through their duties without question, robots aren't the best at using discretion, I have come to find. All they can do is what has been programmed into them, so they fail to use their best judgment when apprehending people. It is as though they have no common sense. Arresting a man for honking at a non-human pedestrian for jaywalking? Detaining a girl for bringing unsealed food items into the city? Disallowing my brother and I to return home? Worse yet, injuring people over senseless law enforcement that shouldn't have anything to do with current tensions.

This is ludicrous. It's too much. It's stifling. The robots must go. I am fed up with living in fear. As a matter of fact, I am sorely tempted to hose down any and all mechanical menaces that so much as cross my path! Why should I let them have their way with me? At the very least... I, Cress, will request that they be removed from campus. I can't be the only one who feels this way.

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If I am not mistaken, his comment box is actually a paper shredder.

That sounds about right.

Then he's not listening. He's just taunting us.

Hardly fitting attributes for a leader or whatever he wishes to call himself. The mayor of this land has done nothing to stop him. If he were in Frelia, I'd have him punished for such insolence.

It seems strange that the mayor is willing to sit back and let this continue. The next question I am compelled to ask is whether or not he has sufficient enough authority to reclaim his position. I was under the impression he was powerful.

The mayor might just be a coward.

Whatever he is, something seems fishy... With Dr. Eggman's reputation, why would the mayor have granted the reins to him in the first place?

Most reasons which come to mind involve bribery or pressure of some sort. Or idiocy.

Cress can't disagree with you on that. While I can't say I know what was going through the mayor's head, I wonder if contacting him would do any good? If his reasoning isn't sound, how are we supposed to use reasoning in order to push change?

I would imagine the mayor is well-guarded, probably by those heathen bots. Eggman would want to protect his assets, even the ones he controls. He's got a big enough head to do such a thing. Somehow I don't see the mayor responding to reason even if we did reach him.

It wouldn't hurt to try. We may not have our hopes up, but we could at least exhaust a possibility that does have a small chance at doing us some good. Once we are sure whether that achieved anything or not, we may have to change tactics if nothing else...

Any possibility for good is worth the try. A confrontation, though no doubt dangerous, would give us insight on their strength and possibly tactics. It could be beneficial, given it doesn't turn out deadly.

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