Idiot Whomp and all the peoples of KISS
It is with great hope that we respond to Whomp's letter of February 15. Our continent is on the brink of war indeed, and MIA does not want to go to war against our neighbours to the north. With the goal of re-establishing peace, here is MIA's position:
We reiterate our point of view regarding our trade with TNT. Our honour is important to us, and we are insulted by your continuing accusations that we broke our deal:
1. The original 7 Tiers treaty is not crystal clear as to whether the tech trading portion can be broken independently of the peace portion or not. Whomp and Daghda (at least) felt it could be, and apparently some of the rest of KISS did not.
2. KISS sent an official letter to our gmail on January 4 stating clearly that the tech portion was cancelled. This lead us to believe that your interpretation was that the tech trading was independent of peace. This interpretation (of your official correspondence) was confirmed in a chat on January 7.
3. At no time did anyone from KISS tell us that this was not the correct interpretation. Over a week passed between the official correspondence, the follow-up chat among Chamnix, Whomp, Tubby and Daghda; and the completion of the deal between MIA and TNT. If anyone from KISS wanted to disavow the official correspondence of January 4 or the statements made in that chat, there was ample opportunity to do so. It is beyond our control if the text of the chat was not made available for the other member of KISS to read and respond to.
4. Though the 7 Tiers contained different possible interpretations, it was obvious to us which interpretation KISS had chosen because the tech trading portion was cancelled by the leaders of both teams in official correspondence. We acted completely honourably in pursuing the trade with TNT.
We are indeed disappointed about what our relationship has come to. We are glad in our hearts when we think back on how much stronger KISSMIA was becoming compared to BattleIsle before things went wrong. We have no desire to see war on our continent and remain very hopeful that it can be averted, especially since DNUTS (now under Kuningas) and TNT have declared an end to hostilities. An open dialogue would be in both parties' best interests and MIA wants to discuss how we can work together and work at peace.
Unilateral Oath of Peace:
We are willing to make the first step towards peace by declaring that MIA will NOT attack without giving you 5 turns warning. As a sign of good faith, we will not expect a similar promise from you: KISS is not bound in any way, shape, or form; this is a one-sided Promise.
Conditions:
> As long as you refrain from sending any units (or boats) south of the jungle (and turn around the units that are already south) then we will make good on our promise not to attack without warning.
> We will also reciprocate, and will refrain from sending any units or boats north of the jungle.
> This promise may only be honourably revoked with 5 turns official written notice.
We hope this will not be the new permanent state of our relationship but rather this will serve as a good faith starting place for us to begin talking again.
Respectfully,
Feaurius III
This is hardly the case. Rather, there is growing evidence that says, to the contrary, that a great many of us don't want it to bar people from partaking in activities that cannot be monitored and controlled. But we feel a prodigious societal pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to its crass catch-phrases. The largest problem, however, is that if you've never seen Team MIA work both sides of the political fence, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself.
The recent outrage at Team MIA's editorials may point to a brighter future. For now, however, I must leave you knowing that Team MIA goes ballistic every time I so much as hint that it has never seen a statistical correlation that it couldn't somehow turn into a causal claim fitting its directionless ideology.
Scott Pakin strikes!1!!eleven!!1. 
