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I wanted to write an article to give everyone a fuller picture of what all the drama in the eUSA has been about lately to shed light on the situation at hand. For the purposes of this article the rebel flag represents something malevolent, but of course in history it was much different!
Anyway, I will start at the beginning and try to make it as clear as I can for anyone in the eUSA or the eWorld who is interested in knowing more about this.
A few months ago I finally caved in to pressure to join this game. I was told that a certain someone was not really active and would not be a bother. We'll call him "Opponent P" and you can figure out pretty easily who it is that is being talked about. After a short time in another party I became a member of Youth of America and was one of only three Congressmen during my first month in the party. When Party President Elections came around I saw that our party had no candidate and so I threw my hat in to the ring. When I became Party President we had in the neighborhood of 27-28 members, and by the time my term was up we had around 50 legitimate members(there are more now because of hostile people in the party), we won 8 seats in Congress, and even the Country Presidency! All seemed like it was going well, but it was not to be....
There is another game that I have been on for awhile which shall not be named, and on this game there exists certain people who also tend to have quite a bit of influence on eSim. You may have figured out by now I tend to be pretty independent minded and a rather reformist, anti-establishment type of figure. They decided at some point after our success became overwhelming that I was who they believed me to be. To make a long story short there have been certain people such as Opponent P, and a good number of the names on the list of rebel tanks in the last Civil War who have had a personal grudge and vendetta against me for years. It all began in around mid-2009 based on IRC conversations where I made my personal religious and political beliefs very clear, and certain people reacted VERY negatively to that. This was the original reason to do what they just attempted to do in yesterday's Party Presidential Election, which is called a Party PTO or "political take-over". It is when you move people in to another groups party as well as try to impose propaganda on its current members to destroy a political faction you are too afraid to face honorably and fairly and would rather do so in a cowardly way. Oftentimes illegal "offspring" accounts were used. It really does ruin the fun when you know that some of who you are competing against are not even real people.
Over time the reason for destroying my party grew and not only became about personal hatred towards me for being assertive about my beliefs and standing up for them but they began to invent fanciful lies about my real life, most of which was either completely false or so distorted that it barely resembled any form of truth. Suffice it to say I grew weary of having my party constantly destroyed as I enjoy election based geo-political simulation games and so I decided to team up with different groups to try to defend myself. The most notable of this was primarily from 2012-2013 after a huge Turkish group known as INCI was brought in by Opponent P and co. and used to heavily dilute our factional power in the eUSA. I countered by working with a large consortium of foreign groups that shared our interests. They consisted of people from all over the world but Serbs, Greeks, Koreans, Portuguese, Bosnians, etc. were among some of the larger ones.
Over time they grew more desperate to stop us and dirtier and dirtier tactics involving creating a LOT more "offspring", sabotaging the US economy, and bringing in massive numbers of several other ethnic groups to destroy our party after it was safe for an extended period of time of being the largest in the country. Finally Opponent P and friends got their wish. I was branded an "Enemy of the State" and a traitor because I used allies sympathetic to our interests as a response to their years of bullying tactics in an attempt to even the odds somewhat. I will say I am proud of my actions. My only regret is that we did not succeed, but the deck was always heavily stacked against us. It is also worth mentioning that Opponent P has followed me to multiple countries as well as taken his agenda to persecute me off-game as well. I will limit what I say about that because I want this article to stay up for all to see.
Now moving on to the current situation since I have given you a bit of history to this. I could write a novel but there is a character limit!
The major trouble began on here when I accessed the eUSA Forums using proxies as I knew the Admins on there would be checking my IP to see if they could identify who I was. I did not want to give them that satisfaction and I felt it was my right to try to preserve my privacy. Years ago I was given a lifetime ban on there for doing something I did not do. My avatar, profile info, and posts would constantly be edited to say stupid things. I also was the only person who had to have all their posts approved by moderators before being posted. Because of this I flipped out and gave them a piece of my mind about how I was being treated on there. Inappropriate content of a graphic nature was posted on my account without my consent and thus they had a reason to get rid of me on there forever. Unfortunately like in Game of Thrones there is no justice in the virtual world! I then asked Congressmen in our party or potentially sympathetic ones to discuss legislative matters using alternative means. After all, we should not have an official forum which is not run in a professional and unbiased manner. I do not believe that is an unreasonable position to have.
I won the Presidential Election by a single vote, although I personally believe I have identified at least some illegitimate accounts on the other side which made the result closer than it actually was. I thought it was a great achievement for all of us involved that we were able to defeat a Four Term US President. I also knew that trouble would likely start soon. Of course like clockwork Opponent P decided that a few hours in to my Presidency he would press the impeachment vote. As expected because we had the votes to defend it this impeachment failed. He then ponied up the 120 or so gold needed to initiate a Civil War. In this case I believe those same illegitimate accounts were used to vote, and some people voted for the rebels just for the heck of it, but it was close in terms of voting. I also knew that I had far less experience organizing a major military operation in this game compared to others(a disadvantage I will not have in the future) and that it would be a difficult battle. I think it is important to emphasize here that I had done nothing to merit this other than past personal grudges related to people despising me from another game and then spreading it on here. Opponent P also decided that he would come back from what apparently is considered low activity by his standards and dedicate himself to destroying me in a game. I think it is pretty sad that this is the sort of thing that gives him pleasure in life, but alas I digress.
The rebels had imported people who had not had US citizenship in a long time, as well as woke up some sleeping accounts to help them run up an enormous amount of damage against us. Even though it proved futile I gratefully accepted a friend's offer to bring a few of his friends in to try to cut in to some of that advantage they now had. It was not something they would have been able to change the outcome of, but it did mitigate the damage to some extent. It turned out to be a very bad situation for us and only two of our Congressmen survived the wipe-out. Immediately afterwards Opponent P deleted several articles written during my Administration on the USA Org. by our very talented Press Secretary, a very immature way to damage historical government records and an insult to our attempt to have a transparent and open government. There were then several days of trolling until Opponent P's hand-picked successor and long-term ally Molly Emma was chosen by the rebel Congress to serve as President/Dictator.
This then brings us full circle to yesterday when the candidate he enthusiastically endorsed attempted to take control of Youth of America with the help of a certain former Party President who has been drinking the Kool-Aid being served by a handful of players about events he knows absolutely nothing about. Fortunately they failed, and yet our party numbers are still inflated by these minions who came here with the goal of destroying everything we have built.
I will close with saying that we will not back down. On this game there are not enough people for you to get away with what you got away with before, so I will be watching closely for suspicious accounts. We will be preparing so we can fight to make this country better, stronger, and more fun for all who wish to be a part of it. I look forward to great success in the wars to come, and for those of you unsure of what to make of this situation, I ask you to think critically about it. I just want to play and have fun and not be harassed. Let all of us sink and swim on our merits here alone, and not based on the hatred of others.
Sincerely Yours,
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States in-exile
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