Nation: Mindrestek purges the collaborators in the NSC, discovered to be lost emperor, to be given crown by pretender before execution
Earlier today, 14 out of the 15 members of Istkalen's National Salvation Council attempted to remove member and President Makketis Mindrestek from his position, accusing him of promoting "foreign ideologies" and "national division," as well as of "subverting democracy" both in the country as a whole and within the Council itself. Though it has, through the past month, appeared to be united in lockstep in its effort to save the country from foreign infiltration, this outrageous move revealed that even it was not immune to the machinations of internal traitors and the greater Reitzmo-Vardic conspiracy to subjugate the country. Though they had accepted and even directly contributed to many of the measures the Council had previously passed in order to limit foreign influence and ensure social order, in the end, all but Mindrestek had fully intended to sell the country to be plundered by the crows and snakes led by the devilish Nylund and the scheming Bridges.
According to Mindrestek, who is now the only member of the National Salvation Council and who has assumed, in light of the seriousness of the situation, all legislative, executive, judicial, and other powers in Istkalen, this dastardly plot was organized by two separate cliques within the Council, one Vardic and one Reitzmic. The Vardic clique, consisting of 5 members, he stated at a press conference earlier today, had from the establishment of the Council agitated against the vast majority of the measures, ordered to by their impulsive masters, who like all others of their kind were and are unable to think critically or strategically.
"Unwisely, foolishly," said Mindrestek, "these foreign agents in our beloved Istkalen from the beginning attempted to frustrate the restorative efforts of national patriots. They were against the laws against foreign influence, against the deviants who we now know are all foreign plants. They called these foreign. They wanted restrictions of their own, weaker, so that they could preserve the status of their co-conspirators. They did not want the rationalization of our economy through cooperativization, for they wanted our country weak. They did not want the restoration of the monarchy, for they wanted our country divided. They wanted an end to the parliament, the dominance of the Salvation Council, a society and politics based on the corrupt vocational orders, for they wanted to give this country to those institutions where they knew their Vardic and Reitzmic comrades were in full control."
The Reitzmic clique, consisting of the remaining 9, according to Mindrestek, was more calculating. He stated that they, unlike the Vardics, acted in a far more subtle way, supporting the Council strongly and only dissenting when its actions, in prescribing death to the complotters and the underminers, were to put a decisive end to their chicanery.
"They thought," said Mindrestek, "that they could get away by only making a few minor complaints. A few of them voiced issue with the rationalization, a few of them voiced issue with the war on foreign influence, but they always fell in line, as though they were scared. Often they pushed for more, almost always in concert - more restrictions on religious infiltration, more control over education, more power for our Council. Only when the patriots of this country demanded greater measures, and they forced to deliver, did they begin to complain loudly. Oh, how they screamed about this and that, how such-and-such was going to weaken the country abroad, how such-and-such was too violent, was too alienating. Reminded of the power of the population, risen up in anger against their compatriots in their true country, of course, they still, in the end, voiced, meekly, quietly, favor - but in the end, they too were working against the country, and their effort to remove me, the only Istkalener there, proves it!"
Though Mindrestek's denunciation and description of these foreign cliques within the NSC focused mostly on their opposition to many of the recent measures the body has imposed, he also claimed that they were solely responsible for the controversial air strikes ordered on civilian infrastructure, which until now was understood by all true patriots to be an essential part of the campaign against the Reitzmo-Vardic plot.
"I was always suspicious of it," he said. "I voted against, in spite of all their excuses. I remember, all fourteen of them were very eager, frothing at the mouths, at the thought of destroying our country and killing its people. 'We have to do it!' half of them were screaming in ecstasy. 'For the sake of the people, we must make sure these foreign agents are killed, no matter the consequences!' I was too trusting. I should have known, then."
He finally, however, accused them of fomenting rebellion within the armed forces, and called upon those deluded by their lies to return to the national fold.
"These agents have, I now know, gone among our troops and told them to rebel," he said, addressing the enlisted in the Istkalenic military. "I have the greatest sympathy for those they fooled; it is easy to be taken in by those who have been trained in deception for decades upon decades. I myself was taken in by them, who I thought to be my colleagues, for years upon years. But you, I, now know that they are liars, that they are traitors, that they are all Reitzmics and Vards who want the J-TAI back. I ask my comrades within the armed forces to return to the defense of the nation and its cause, and warn them that those who continue to agitate against our common movement against foreign conquest have only the interest of Reitzmag and Vayinaod in mind."
At this point, Mindrestek deviated away from the plotters' treason against Istkalen to discuss their own transgressions against him.
"I have learned," he said, "that I am the head of the House of Kareskenet, who we thought had been taken by the Vards. The spy Anders Jensen, who took my place and for decades pretended to be me, admitted, upon further questioning, that I was the man he had replaced. The Eighth Konsulate, he said, wiped me of my memories and gave me false ones to replace them, so to ensure that the line they sought to destroy would never be found again. But they have failed, and they will pay for it."
Mindrestek's plan is for Jensen, before his execution tomorrow, to play the role of a false emperor, with his co-conspirators as his false-court. He will be made to abdicate, at which point Mindrestek, really Vistek Rikkalek, will become Emperor of the new Imperial Realm of Istkalen. Then, and only then, with all their work undone before their eyes, will he and his collaborators die.
All 14 of the infiltrators in the NSC have been arrested; immediately after being brought to trial, all confessed to being Vardic or Reitzmic agents, before being immediately sentenced to death for their crimes. They will be executed alongside the rest of the 23 major politicians discovered to be Vardic or Reitzmic spies, including the so-called Iras Tilkanas and Merte Maksile, both of whom have been captured, publically in Europolis Park tomorrow directly after they play their roles in the coronation of Mindrestek/Rikkalek.