Dear comrades,
Greetings.
We have noticed that some rumors have recently been circulating within the organization, expressing sympathy for the Navy, acknowledging the contributions they had made and the blood they had shed in fighting pirates, and even causing doubts about the justice of our organization. We must firmly refute this here.
Was there really such a clear line between justice and evil among pirates and the Navy?
Even the pirate Sun Pirates had performed righteous acts that cast aside status, race, and hatred. More of them resembled our comrades than many among us did.
And even the Navy, which had protected countless civilians, had become the World Government's lackeys the moment it gave the order. Twenty years ago, they launched an indiscriminate massacre of Ohara's innocent people—simply because Ohara's scholars and civilians had touched the World Government's sore spot and might have affected its rule.
Even if we took a step back and said the scholars had knowingly broken the law by touching a taboo, what crime had Ohara's civilians committed?
After they did this, the tradition of the Buster Call still remained within the Navy, and every admiral could launch one. This alone proved that the Navy did not place ordinary people's lives first—perhaps not even second.
They fought pirates not to protect the people, but to protect the nobles and royals who paid them the "Heavenly Gold" protection fee.
And what did their protection of nobles and royals have to do with you, with me, or with the ordinary working masses?
Their protection of ordinary civilians was merely an illusion created by the spillover benefits of protecting nobles and royals.
What needed to be emphasized was that the Revolutionary Army's fundamental purpose and direction were entirely different from the Navy's. What they did casually, what spilled over