My fellow citizens.
I speak not of routes to be chosen, or reforms to be made. I speak not of the idealistic country that we are trying to build. I speak not of the ideologies and thoughts that have been bandied about with few even considering what they truly mean. I speak not of supposed tyrannies or injustices that have been committed. For today, I speak to you as one of the common peopleexpressing his concerns over the state of the kingdom to his fellow men.
We are fighting a menace that no one could have imagined. We of Poland have seen some of the most brutal wars fought over our very own soils, when our own government, that Union of Krakow, led us to betrayal and ruin. We have seen wars sweep over the land, leaving naught but devastation in their wake. We have seen too much.
We have learnt the brutality of a guerilla war. The men of our nation found themselves engaged in combat every day, trying to fight a foe far stronger than themselves, while the women of our nation were at home, worrying every day that their husbands, their sons, their family, would never return home to them.
We have seen some of the most terrible things that could befall a nation in our time. The elder generation will know what I have spoken of; the younger generation will have been told.
Yet I come to you today to speak of a new kind of what I can only term terrorism.
Do not let us fool ourselves. Do not let us be entrapped in what lies they will attempt to proselytize to us. These Egalitists are no freedom fighters. They are no men of the people. They are not our friends, nor our saviors. They have no compassion for the common man, and they have no desire to aid us.
These Egalitists have brought a new wave of destruction down upon the nation of Poland, and though it is in the name of the people, in action it is anything but. They have, indeed, attacked we the people, ourselves.
I ask you, what do attacks on the infrastructure of a nation have to do with helping the people? They have disrupted railways and roads, harmed our treasured ability to provide decent healthcare and even food and water to the needy. They have in every way, shape, and form they could, attempted to harm us, so that we would turn against the government.
I come before you today to tell you that it is not the government we should turn against. We should not turn against the people who have done only their best to bring prosperity to Poland. Turn, instead, against the Egalitists, who preach equality for all when they attack everyone but themselves. Turn against the Egalitists, who kill the people in the name of the people. Turn against these invaders, these traitors, these barbarians, who have only brought woe upon our nation.
Turn against the Egalitists, who kill the husbands and sons of grieving widows and parents. Turn against the Egalitists, who orphan children in their cradle. Turn against them; flush them out, force them out of our nation.
Bring true equality to Polandby throwing out those who falsely preach what they do not practice.
~King Jan IV Jagiellon of Poland in an address to the nation.
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