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So.

Who promised you the world on a platter while you were here, that's what I want to know. Who promised you the rose garden and the happy ever after with lace and sugar and a ribbon on top without oh, I don't know... you not having to actually work for it at all? Which "they" walked up to you and said you had to trust them and they expected it from you? Mmm? Hell, I haven't even told Miles anything of the sort.

So some of you keep saying "they" lied to you. Some keep saying "they" as though it were some sort of curse word, but fact is, I don't know anyone called "They" here. And some of you keep acting as though you're being kept in jail.

I'm wondering here. Who?

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x-gambit.livejournal.com

Hate to say it, but the purple haired femme's pitch to me was that this was a safe place. This was the place that mutants came to learn about their powers. Guess the military invasion slipped her mind then?

Remy did not come here to join a war. Said that the first day, been saying that ever since. I think I've got a right to know if there are going to be soldiers coming in on a daily basis, and what people are doing about it. I also think I've got a right to know when someone is actively trying to kill us, without having to interrogate it out of a femme no older then me.

You don't want to say what's happening? You don't think we need to know what is being decided to make sure Remy don't have to trip over some femme with her face smashed in and a gun to her head in the middle of the night, you tell me right now, and I'll happily take the next bus into the city.

Hell, least that Kraut was an honest madman in front of Remy.

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x-dazzler.livejournal.com

A safe place still has to be kept that way.

And this is a place where mutants come to learn about their powers. Pro-active works too. We can't stuff "wanting to learn" and "getting up and doing so" down everyone's throat. Heck, if we tried, they'd just dig down and refuse to do so. :p

Did you ever think of the oh so very slim possibility that we don't know this kind of stuff in advance? It's not exactly a "oh, we're having tea on Sunday, bring the guns over and take a few potshots at us why not, let's have fun" scenario here.

Omnipotence hasn't been reached yet by any mutant in the house, sorry.

It's a place to live in. It's a place to learn about what you can do, as much and as well as we can manage it. Because we don't know it all. We can't anticipate it all. We can just work at it. Hard. Every day. We can increase our security precautions. We can try and look harder to anticipate things like the attacks, and try to prevent them in the future. But in the end, like it or not, we're only human.

Kind of like everyone else does in the rest of the world, huh?

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x-gambit.livejournal.com

Think you confused, chere. Remy wasn't asking to know the future. I was asking to know about the past and the present.

Got Mafia and Yakuza attacking people who live here? How come it took an effort to have to find that out after things had happened? Slip your mind that we all might be marked for death? How about mentioning that the US Army once came through the doors and tried to capture everyone? Guess that make the pitch from that Psylocke a little less appealing. How about telling us what you're planning to do to make this place safe, rather then asking us to just trust that you're working on it? You proved twice that you can't handle that job. Got an explanation why the third time will be any different?

There are a lot of places and pretty femmes that Remy not experienced yet. I don't like the idea of dying before that happens. I really don't like the idea of dying because the people who asked me to come here decided they don't want to be honest with me about what's really going on.

More and more, Remy get the feeling that I got asked to come here cause if someone attacks while I'm sleeping upstairs, that you got another soldier to fight in the shoot out. Nobody's said anything to me yet to make me doubt that. If you got an honest answer for that, chere, maybe you come find and tell me.

From:

x-dazzler.livejournal.com

Really.

You know, all it took me was scrolling back four to six pages on the main journal (which everyone can read by the way) to dig up these.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/25179.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/22974.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/17282.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/36321.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/19387.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/29141.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/x_cyclops/3509.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/27136.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/x_journal/2003/05/ (Look at the 14th, mmm?)

Not quite in order, but nonetheless… It's ALL. THERE. Anyone even bothering to sit down for five minutes to look will see it. Nothing is hidden. No one is going around saying "Us? Attacked? Why never, must be your imagination." I don't see any lying or concealing or "don't talk to me and heaven forbid you ask me what's going on" posts here. Why no, I see communication, resumes of events and updates to what's going on. Even concern and the desire to help. For everyone.

Oh yes. By the way? It's not like only staff were aware of the first attacks. Every single student here at the time was fully aware of them too. So, that would be every single person in the house at the time. All of it discussed openly in journals. I don't see any one of us setting out to conceal information from anyone. Or lie, as both staff and students, in effect, have been accused of doing.

You want to know even more? Ask. That's how communicating start, and while a lot of the communicating here seems to be one way paranoia and fear-inducing ranting, anyone actually wanting to talk can come and find me. Or Pete and Jake. Or anyone else on staff for that matter. Means getting up on your feet and actually doing the work, but you know what Remy? I don't know about some of the others, but for some reason, you don't strike me as the "sit on his ass and wait for things to come to him" type.

Am I wrong?

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x-gambit.livejournal.com

You know, all it took me was scrolling back four to six pages on the main journal (which everyone can read by the way) to dig up these.

And that was available to me before I walked in the door and likely ended up on every database and hit list you people got monitoring you?

Fact is that the responsibility is on you to make these things known. You're the staff, after all. Saying 'figure it out for yourself' is an excuse. The honest thing to do would be to advise those who you want to bring in of the risks before they end up caught up on what you got going.

But hey, guess that not how things go here. Remy's own fault for not leaving the first time he was lied to, I guess. Don't worry yourself no more, chere. This the last you hear from Remy about it.

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x-dazzler.livejournal.com

Oh, of course. Heaven forbid we keep talking. Communicating.

Why, that might lead actual discourse, never mind actual solutions coming to light, rather than blame being thrown around to everyone in sight, terror scenarios being thrown about willy-nilly and promising the end of the world as we know it.

You want solutions. Try being part of them instead of just pointing the finger.

But it's ever so much easier to just judge people, isn't it?