On Eastern Haane
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My fellow Europeans,
What is happening in Eastern Haane this very moment is completely unprecedented in this Union's history. Never before have we seen such a total collapse of a society that the very fabric of a population's reality is threatened. I call upon the great powers of Europe to act. A council resolution would only be idealistic in nature. It is time that the nations of Europe rise to challenge this complete and total breakdown of society. Millions of lives are at stake.
To those in Eastern Haane: If you are listening, this hell you are living is but a lie. The absolute horrors that you have seen are the creations of man, not by some supernatural being. And it is man that can right this wrong. You must fight against your animalistic instincts and see the destruction that you are bringing to yourselves.
It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers, sisters, and common people in common stride. We are common in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, and, in this, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our humanity. We know it, because we have had to learn and live it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. So I ask you— I implore you: Reach out to one another. End this senseless violence. End this bloodshed. See that you have the power to destroy the hell that has been wrought across your land.
You have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. You have no government but the single principle of free association. You have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do you have much else. You are sharers, not owners. You are not prosperous. None of you are rich. None of you are powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for their life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. Carry the spirit of your great revolution, overthrow the hold of the death cults, the doubts, the corruption, the violence that has so captured your being. You alone have created hell, and you alone can eradicate it from this Earth.
ANGELA MERKEL
Premier Commissioner of the European Union
