Osprey Edit: I’m leaving in a few minutes for a day and a half long train ride to Colorado. I have to go help my mom deal with stuff in my grandparents old house. I think I’ll be back the Friday after this Friday.

The dreaded idea: a plague of medieval proportions hitting the United States today. To make a long story short, all hell would break loose. Things would resemble some similarities to post-plague Europe, in that there would be a ton of land, and nobody to own it. There would be some huge differences though.

Thanks  to air travel, it would surely spread even faster than the plague of Europe. However, this could be prevented, as in this day and age we don’t fear medicine. We quarantine the infected, and immediately try to find a cure. But let’s say that hypothetically, we didn’t contain it, or we couldn’t contain it. If up to fifty percent of the population died, we would be in serious trouble.  Crime rates, post-plague would probably go down, though. This is a difficult and touchy subject, because there’s a fine line between saying “a lower population could aid our country in some ways,” and saying  “Let’s go kill the people, for the people.” It would be an absolute tragedy, at the risk of sounding like I have dissociative identity disorder. From this point on, I’ll do my best to point  all the bad things about this.

He supports genocide, and hes' one of the GOOD guys.

Our nation’s military would statistically have to lose members, which would leave us more vulnerable to enemy attack. Our nation’s work force would also statistically be lowered, which again is not a good thing. With the population of the United States being over three-hundred-million, an epidemic such as this could very well mean that up to one-hundred-and-fifty-million people could die! We wouldn’t have enough time to cremate a body before another dropped dead! If movies like “Doomsday” and “28 Days Later” have shown us anything, it’s that large urban centers with many people living close together are perfect places for outbreaks to start and spread. And back in the middle ages, the urban centers weren’t anything like today’s urban centers. Sure we’re cleaner (a lot cleaner), and have the medical advancements, but should an epidemic like this happen anyway, several hundred people could become infected simultaneously because one inconsiderate person didn’t  cover their mouth when they coughed.

"Sorry, I thought I could breathe fire and I wanted to test it out."

I don’t think… At least I don’t hope that there isn’t an extremist movement like their was in the Medieval times. The funny thing about human nature is that we’re always trying to pass the blame. There WILL be people that blame God… or a god. Like the woman in “The Mist”, or that crazy man in the video-game “Deadrising”, who blamed the zombie apocalypse on mankind’s sins (although based on the story of that particular game, he wasn’t too far off… but I digress). But I have enough faith in humanity to assume that the people won’t begin inflicting pain upon themselves to appease God.

Sacrifice yourselves! It's the only way to survive!

I would like to think that on average, the people know enough about how diseases work, that they’d be careful. The Media will probably aid in giving people health tips… if not too excessively. Today people do individual research on diseases, and know enough about the human body to keep themselves from dying of the common cold. And we certainly aren’t going to deprive ourselves of white blood cells to help get the sickness out of the body. An outbreak of a plague-like disease today would probably NOT be as bad as it was in the middle ages, honestly.

Or... maybe there never was a "plague".

Culturally, it would definitely up the awareness on staying healthy. It’ll be a good kick in the pants for people who don’t regularly wash their hands, and whatnot. Lot’s of companies will probably end up shutting down. Whether it’s because your entire work-staff died, or because your customers fell ill to the dreaded disease. With companies shutting down, are economy will be in bad shape. But humanity will survive, as it always has. Eventually a resistance to the virus will be built up, and order will be relatively restored… even if it does come from some kind of tyrannical corporation selling safety in a giant aristocratic tower-city (Land of the Dead style).

And I apologize for brushing against the subject of Hollywood Zombies so much; the similarities just strike me as remarkable. And being a Zombie-maniac, I can’t got more than a few days without bringing them into conversation.

-KC Phillips

SAINTS WIN THE SUPERBOWL! YAY!!!!! =D!!!!!!

Either I’ve gotten smarter or you’ve become dumber commando[You've gotten dumber, that's why you think you've gotten smarter.]. Just after reading the first part of your post I found an amazing amount of holes in your argument.

“Why are you trying so hard to make us die then?”
..You guys joined[made, atleast the original we made] the alliance to take down Acp and continued staying in the alliance. Acp merely defended itself against the alliance. You took the first step and RPF has said many times that the purpose of the alliance/war is to destroy Acp so a new army can become number 1[No, I think he was refering to the mild bashing on the ACP site and the high bashing on Xat chats. More or less he phrased it wrong.].

“Our enemy continues to fight us unfairly, they insult us with out reason. They invade our servers with out us knowing it.”
…Omega started to make hate comments which prompted ACP to start responding[I started first, why does no one remember me?]. YOU would have to be blind to not know that. Also ACP posted the invasions at least 24 hours in advance and did not try to hide the invasion at all[He was refering to the LOEG, again?]. If you can not have the energy to check another site’s posts during wartime then it is your own fault for being a bad leader and for stupid[Mashing the F5 button?].

“One of the facts that bugs me the most is that they don’t even have reason for why they are against us. They even do have a reason yet they don’t use the proper one.”
…First of all these sentences contradict each other[He's saying the different sides in RPF. One thinks it's just to bash us but your not paying attention to how we're responding and throwing the exact same thing at us and that you don't have one at all.]. Secondly…Acp is against you guys because you want to destroy Acp and you invaded Acp’s servers along with the other armies in the alliance[No, he means polically, not militaristicly. Like why you bash our legends with stuiped arguements, like fake ages?]. Now you are the only army left fighting[Nachos, WW, UPA...], even Uma has stopped[UMA is crazy, your arguement is invalid.].  And if you know the “real” reason then why don’t you tell everyone what it is[Why would we help you stand against us politcaly? Well, we could give you a flawed arguement and know the loopholes in it.]?

“He then went on to say we have a picture about IW saying “the bots are leaving”.”
…This is also how I interpreted it and everyone else should have. The person noticed the bots leaving and commented on it[You didn't even put context, you just said that he had a pic of someone saying the bots are leaving.]. That is in no way evidence of IW using bots. You can’t say that since IW has used bots in the past for recruiting that they are the ones who used them in this battle. The collective might have brought those bots, you never know.

“Whatever you said about kitty not being in RPF”
…When someone asked why Kitty was an owner, Sergie answered with “Kitty is an owner because she makes bots.” Bots are against the bill that all armies including RPF signed[Okey, SERGIE answered Kitty makes bots? 1) Sergie rage quit RPF, at pretty much the same time. He hated RPF for not voting for him. 2) Kitty doesn't make bots, I made sure he wasn't making bots, and he's owner because he does shit that keeps out chat cool-ish? idk, why is he owner?] . This bill was made by Person, not Acp. This means that during that time that Kitty was an owner Rpf was breaking the bill. The bill says that anyone using bots is to be fired and banned on chats. Instead a main owner in RPF made her an owner. [USING bots. But we weren't, infact even if you believe Sergie he only said that Kitty knew HOW to make bots, which almost every army has someone that knows how to.]

I got bored by this point and stopped reading the rest[Lazy]

~Shaboomboom~

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Miscellaneous Edit to Tomb: The reason both your post and our edit about emails to CP were removed was because this is getting way to political.  We’re not even actually fighting anymore, we’re basically trying to fight each other through emails to CP, which frankly, is really stupid, pointless, and not fun for anyone.  Don’t go and make a new email post, one, it will just get CP extremely annoyed at CP armies in general (no one likes mass emails), and two, did you read Meadow’s post? [Meh, I'll just post this up here because it was around, idk how to really critisize ACP for knowing that Tomb was a dumbass.]

I am done with this political post war. You have something to say? Take it to CP.

If you have something to say, get on CP and make your statement in a battle[50 vs. 15. lolwut?].  That’s the way things used to be in armies[They also used to be ballanced and we had legends that KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.].  Enough with the emails and posts (from both sides).  Armies as a whole have fallen so far from what they once were[You already said that, not just in this post, but like, every month you have one that's like a page long about it.], and we are in this terrible trend of doing everything we can to harm an army without even fighting them on CP[You have a better plan to have RPF win against ACP?].  I would have thought after[After? It still goes on. Unless your talking about some other war idc about.] the RPF war people would have realized that.  We fight with our soldiers, not with our words[If that was quoted you'd almost sound like an anti-free speech person, if only you'd phrased it as being towards people protesting for free speech.].

All their posts are still up, including the pedophile warning post. – I agree, these posts should be removed as well[Meh, what if it's true though? O_O].

Yesterday the Nacho leadership did thee[*the] most classless, tasteless, crude, hurtful and harmful thing[My eyes are just glasing over it by now.] I have ever witnessed as a member or soldier in CP armies. They posted on their site that an ACP Lt. General/Mod is in fact a registered Pedophile[ZOMG HE IS?!?!?!], and warned everyone to beware. This was not enough for the Nacho leadership, knowing our chat was full, knowing they could not beat us, Ad’s, the supreme Nacho leader, who was afforded modship on ACP chat, came on to the ACP with no owner present, of course he waited till then, and guest banned every member on chat, then took his troops to invade Snowfort[Yay?].

I, Dryvit, went to talk to Tomb, who was the only owner on at the time, and his reply was “Lulwut” “Bring it on”.  This is his reply to asking politely[lolwut?] that the pedophile post be removed. Now, ACP will not stoop[*will stoop  (fix'd)] as low as the Nachos did by posting such barbaric, incendiary blatant lies[Again, what if it's true? O_O] about any soldier. So I hit them where it hurts, in their recruiting efforts[Oh please.]. I saw where they have a letter writing campaign in effect to try to force Club Penguin into bringing back the Fiesta[Fiesta is fun, mah allies grow.], which every army knows in inherently unfair to all but the Nachos[No, it's unfair to you, not EVERYONE, just you.]. So I posted that ACP should request instead of a party to benefit just one small group on CP, have an Earth Day celebration that ALL members of CP could enjoy[LOLWUT? You mean, you posted something for ACP to grow from, as in, your trying to give ACP TWO pro-ACP parties?! RPF DOESN'T EVEN HAVE ONE! Were the hell is RPF day?]. That post was removed at the request of Meadow Sue [Edit: she also removed the Nachos similar post about asking for a Fiesta[-.-]], but the offending pedophile post remains for all to see. Makes sense to me. Now the Nachos are complaining that we went too far[YOU DID!]. I think they have it absolutely backwards[Oh, DRY thinks that Nachos shouldn't be given a supportment party but ACP should have TWO? And you think calling some random member that the Nachos have hated for all eternity was suprising, your trying to screw up the Nachos forever for your own greed.]. What do you think soldiers of ACP[I think they're stuiped for keeping you in power.]?  Was the Nacho empire correct in their post[Ya, probably.], banning and invading[You probably would've done the same. =/ Eat or be eaten at this point.]? Was the ACP post too much[Yes.]? Should it have been removed while the Nacho post still stands for all to see[Yes, one member you could care less about(you wouldn't care if he quit in reality, you never do with your members) is not worth you getting twice as much support, as, well, you'd basiclly be the only one getting support.]? Lets hear your opinions[You suck.]. What should our next action be? War[YOUR AT WAR! This is the fifth battle. -.-]? Put the post back up[Which one? I'm confused.]? Apologize[Yes, and then support an RPF day.]? Now is your chance to be heard[I'm IP banned, mainly for thinking.].

Dryvit.

Saint’s Edit: I, for one, will not tolerate such behavior[Yes, Dry must be removed for trying to do this.]. These actions Nachos have been doing (discrediting both email actions by us two armies[What?]) are acts of war[They're at war. It would be like Iraq bombing a U.S. Army base and you saying, "ZOMG WE'RE AT WAR WITH IRAQ NOW!".]. If war is what they want, I say BRING IT ON[I believe that was also the last words of UMA before they went to war with RPF/ACP in WWIII and were enevidably crushed. Atleast according ACP's verision of history.].

That is all[And then you act like it's a briefing on what's for lunch. -.-].

Well, I wasn’t going to actually post this because I already went over it about 5 times but I got asked to by RPF chat so meh.

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To: The soldiers and citizens of the Army Of Club Penguin. [And me, because I read it.] 

From: Iasgae 56, ACP 2nd in Command [ACP propagandist to boot]  

RE: Freedom of Speech?: 

Well it has been practice in recent[week ago] times to hammer ACP for its apparent prevention of Freedom of Speech. It is everywhere you look[You mentioned 2 sites, I wouldn't count Nachos and RPF as everywhere, although I'm glad that people consider RPF that big of an influence.]. 

Nachos Site: 

Pie almost certainly insinuating us. [No, they were insulting Jim's army.] 

RPF are big supporters of it, I found the term “freedom of Speech” 20+ times on the second pages[Again, not recent if it's on the 2nd page.] of posts on the RPF site, all of them referring to ACP[And RPF, saying we have it and ACP doesn't.]. Here’s just one: From THIS post. 

RPF also accusing our supresion of Freedom of Speech. [Yay, you used my work. =D To bad you didn't notice it until now. I feel like that person that wrote Moby Dick.]   

But here is the question, are we really suppressing freedom of Speech? [Yes] 

Well, here are some common examples of what enemy soldiers say when they come to our chat, and then complain we are suppressing freedom of speech:
“ACP IS AN ARMY OF NOOBS!” 

“ACP HAS NO TACTICS!” 

“ACP leaders are pathetic” 

Every single one of these things is going to start a fight.[Yes, between the sane and the zombies.] Yes? [Ya, that's what I said, yes.] 

Well, that is clearly the result that will come from making these detrimental comments. A lot of fighting. [Meh, but think about it, then people will learn that not EVERYONE is listening to only you.] 

(Click to see better) : 

This shows that even in America, the land that most of our accusers live, is not completely open to Freedom of Speech. [That's wikipedia, not the Constitution. The Constitution says I can say whatever I want as long as it's not a threat and you can piss off if you think it's against the law.] 

You see, there is a rather obvious limitation to Freedom of Speech. As the picture says “the right is commonly subject to limitations, such as on “hate speech”. It is this hate speech which is what our accusers usually throw at us on our chat, and results in them getting banned. [What's the problem with that? You define hate speech as anything against ACP.] 

(Again, click to see better) : 

This is the definition of “Hate Speech” and the limitations of Freedom of Speech. [We can't lie? But we're not lying. And can't riot? Really? That's physically trying to force Free Speech. All we're doing is bashing you repetivly with words.] 

As you can see, making these statements on ACP chat is going to start a riot/argument[Arguements arn't riots, and most of the ACP will say RPF hates Europes and cusses a lot, then ban us, or flame us for something not true(AGAINST THE RULES).], and you have to know that when making such statements. As I have said before, this is a rather obvious limitation[Okey, we can't say anything because you'll start a flame war? Really most of the members don't respond, only the owners.], and it is one that we impose on ACP chat. So please, other armies, when you are making your accusations please bear this in mind as it is the reasoning for getting banned, nothing to do with suppressing freedom of speech. Mkay? 

~Iaѕgaє5б||a¢ρ 2ι¢ 

Nono: Just to add to this, here is the bill (which I proposed and had passed last summer[Sure havn't been following it.]) upon which our freedom of speech is based. It is not limiting whatsoever. This is our standard, and anyone who breaks it does not reflect the views of ACP[Your basiclly saying, that anyone against ACP doesn't reflect the views of ACP? No duh.]: 

The Free Speech Bill

1. No type of punishment shall be administered for criticism, unless the criticism includes offensive language or sexist, racist, or ethnicist content or is a spam message[I think you'll just say it's offensive to say ACP's leaders need to not kick everyone for invalid resons.].
2. The “no being ’smart’ to the mods” rule will be removed from the chat rules[That makes sense.]. However, if this “smartness” is displayed arbitrarily to just infuriate the mod["It makes me mad to have you live, your now banned forever from ACP chat until you comit suicide." There's no real base for that, you can basiclly say anything is arbitary by starting a topic about burritos while they're talking about something else.], this falls under the catagory of spam and will be punished as such[As, whatever the mod/owner can do.].
3. This bill applies to both owners and mods.
4. Any violations of this bill can be reported to an owner (unless an owner committed the violation, in which case they shall be reported to a main owner, or a main owner committed this violation, in which case the senate will decide on their punishment through a vote) for punishment to be administered. [Hmmm, so your going to ban a main owner? Really? Did  you somehow think that would work? You can't punish the actual punishment for spam to a main owner.]