The Army of Club Penguin is in a critical state. Our active post shows that we have far more soldiers than both the Nachos and IW, yet we may not be any larger than they are. We have become inactive beyond what is recognizable just on the surface. Our hits are as low in some cases as they were back in November 2008 when we were defeated at Mammoth and nearly succumbed to civil war. The current leadership is unqualified, uncaring, and uncompromising, and something must be done.
For those of you who have been on chat recently, you know it has been complete chaos. Meat banned two of our former leaders (Shab and Dry) for speaking their mind, and de-modded some of our most respected soldiers like Ennbay. Those of us who believe in freedom of speech took offense.
If you have spoken with our (former) allies recently, you know that in barely a week, Meat has become probably the most hated ACP leader in quite a while. It has come to the point where the Nachos make an example of him to publicly humiliate ACP on a daily basis.
If you have spoken to our very own soldiers recently, many have expressed great dissatisfaction towards the current ACP leaders, Meat in particular. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of sitting on chat watching our own soldiers receive bans for speaking their mind. I am sick of hearing about all the retirements of our top soldiers because they cannot tolerate this behavior any longer. I am tired of the pcs telling me we must be rid of Meat, that ACP is falling, that we are doomed. Meat seems to think he can do whatever he wants and ignore the advice of some of ACP’s best leaders and soldiers. He only takes advice from his close circle of friends, and to anyone else, “you are not the leader”. In other words, your opinion does not matter.
He has de-admined us so that we have no control over the site, and he is doing his best to make sure it stays that way. He has surrounded himself with his friends, many of whom are deemed by most to be unqualified for their positions, mostly because they are the few supporters he has left. I can deal with other armies disliking our leader, but when the majority of our army wants to remove him from power, I cannot sit by as we lose soldier after soldier. We, leaders and soldiers alike, have worked too hard for this army, to have it destroyed by yet another divide.
Soldiers, let me ask you this. Why are we following a leader who has no intention to listen to what the soldiers want? Meat has refused countless times to take into account what Dryvit, myself, army leaders, and many of our own soldiers have asked of him. Instead, he banned Shab overnight and threatened to make him a mod and contributor for as long as a month if he didn’t accept his deal which can be seen below.
When Dryvit, respected in ACP for always being fair and decent person, tried to defend Shab, he was unjustly muted:
This from the Nacho site:
“Since when does the leader of an army control his/her soldier’s thoughts and actions? Since when can they force a soldier to agree with them? Seems like Meat is scared of losing power so much that he has freaked out.”
TOTAL ABUSE OF POWER =O
It’s kinda interesting just how much of that Aka got right…
If anything else, we need a leader who can remain calm in pressure situations, who won’t overreact and ban anyone who opposes him. Meat has already proved incapable of this, and it is a characteristic all leaders need, something many of us knew he lacked when he became Co-Leader. He makes decisions based on his feelings and not through rational thinking. Thus, a simple argument results in a ban because he lets his emotions control him. Leaders must control their anger and be rational even in the most trying situations.
The event that really frustrated me was Meat’s general lack of consideration for armies other than his own after the end of the recent war. During the Mammoth conflict when Shab was leader, the Nachos returned all our servers so we could rebuild from our loss. Meat, in the same situation, has refused to give back any of their servers (even though we already had enough) simply so the Nachos couldn’t have them. He knows the Nachos need Fjord to recruit, but he completely refuses to show any consideration for an army that is in dire need of help after losing their site. He knows the Nachos don’t have the strength to beat us right now, and he is using our power to take advantage of them. That is not the mentality of a good leader. The Nachos and other armies could have easily finished us off those many months ago, but they, like the great leaders of the past, respected their enemies’ surrender and returned their servers. If armies are to have any hope, the World Powers cannot beat up on the smaller armies until they themselves are destroyed. His refusal to repay the Nachos for when they returned our servers confounded not only the Nachos leaders, but many of our leaders and soldiers as well.
Many of the people Meat has surrounded himself with act the same way, because he chose only those (just about the only ones left) who shared his opinions. Meat really only accepts advice from Nono, Matt, and Ganon, and turns a cold shoulder to anything Dry or I say. Likewise, what the soldiers want does not appear to matter to him (as we can see from recent events on chat). His response is always to the effect of “I am leader, you are not.” In other words, your opinion does not matter.
Matt is an interesting pick for 3ic as well. When Dry was leader, Meat promoted his good pal 3 ranks for the 3ic spot when there were plenty of capable Generals available. Matt (the leader that hides at the bottom of the chat without a name) was soon demoted for not doing anything. After Fox’s retirement, the 3ic spot opened up again, and most people expected someone like Ennbay to fill the spot. Instead, despite what happened last time, the 3ic replacement was Matt.
Here is another good example of the kind of leader Meat supports:
What kind of leader blames the army’s problems on the soldiers? As a leader, you are responsible for everything that goes on in the army, good and bad. It is your job to look out for the soldiers, to listen to them, to do what is right for them. To blame all of your deficiencies on the them is about as low as it gets. These are the kind of leaders Meat surrounded himself with? You Sir, are a disgrace to this army.
We cannot sit by and watch as generations of soldiers’ hard work and countless hours of service to this army are destroyed by this uncaring dictatorship. Some of our best soldiers are threatening retirement, respected soldiers banned for speaking their mind. The time is now.
At 8:00 pm PST on September 25, 2009, I hereby declare a coup d’etat against the leadership of ACP. The time for decency has ended. You lost that priviledge once you put yourself above the soldiers of this great army, who work hard every day to make this army everything it can be, and you cannot even take the time to consider their opinions. There shall be no need for impeachment, for in a dictatorship such as this, there is no need for democracy. We now control the site, and I reserve the right to take you out by force.
Myself, Shab, Dryvit, and countless unnamed soldiers, are here to stop this. The site, the chat, and the army, are in our hands once again. And we are here to return it to the rightful owners. ACP belongs to you, the soldiers, who are the reason ACP is where it is today. We shall not fail you. This time, things will be different. I can promise that ACP will be more active than ever before. Once again, we shall be leading with you in mind. An army is nothing without loyal soldiers, so it is only just that you have leadership that will listen to those whose opinions matter most. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now – and do it.”
~Boomer
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