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7 Pluviôse, Year 2
Love, citizens, is truly worthless if it is directed at anything beyond love of the cause of liberty, and love of the fatherland that so nourishes us all.
Did I love this man, who even now has been processed with an efficiency becoming the Revolutionary Tribunal (and it must be noted that the Committee of Public Safety and Committee of General Security must be thanked for their drive to improve efficiency)? I did, in that way a woman who is blinded by her passions can be. But I never lost my love for the liberty for the people of France, nor did I ever forget that the love of a single woman for a single man is a mere nothing of thought when placed next to the love of liberty. For it is only once liberty is achieved for the nation that other forms of love can truly blossom.
Armitage Hux, a man who, like others before him, stands a threat to the friends of justice and truth. For that, I cannot forgive him, nor can I allow whatever sentiments I might have towards this man blind me; I cannot allow my passions as a woman distract me from my passion as a Frenchwoman and a member of the Jacobins. And because of this I publicly declare, once again, my allegiance to the National Convention, to our constitution, and to the Committees of this Convention.
To paraphrase a recent bill by the Convention: fraternity cannot be rooted in simple pleasures; it must be built upon a foundation of truth and trustworthiness - something Armitage Hux has not shown. As a member of the dreaded nobility, who even now in Hux's defence have rallied the enslaved in England against the liberty-loving French, Armitage Hux has always borne suspicion for his commitment to the ideals of the Revolution.
Despite the cunning connivances of renouncing his titles, and by working with the true patriots of this country during the early stages of the Revolution, he nevertheless bore in his breast the beating heart of treachery. And now that his plots and schemes against the Republic of Liberty which we fight so valiantly for have been uncovered, similar to Pompey once he was routed by the populist Caesar he fled, hoping to avoid capture. But unlike that creature from antiquity, Armitage Hux was caught before he could make his escape to England - and he was tried and found guilty within a single day of capture.
We will all see the blade sever this traitor from the world in short order.
That this individual was not alone in his vile conspiracies is now known: he has been assisted by Girondins and Federalists and foreign agents of all manner in his quest to undermine the good and honest work of the Convention and its Committees. Even now the elusive "Captain Phasma'' of England, and the dreaded General Kylo Ren in the Vendee have denounced his impending execution as barbarism, but I ask you citizens: is it barbarism to defend the sons and daughters of liberty against the monsters who would enslave us all under oppression again? As Citizen Robespierre noted when this very convention ordered the execution of the dishonest Louis Capet, is it more humane to the people to let a traitor live in our midst than root him out and prevent his corruption from spreading and destroying us all?
This I present to you, citizens: my official declaration against former citizen Armitage Hux, and I leave all my passions I may once have had behind in the ruins he has left behind.
There may be some who accuse me of being blinded by my love for this man, and for a time they may have been right. But even before his flight from Paris I had begun to see through his lies. He fled before I could come forward, but my papers will show that I had an official denunciation ready with evidence of his crimes. I have seen through the intrigues and duplicitous behaviour of this man and his accomplices
And so I denounce him, this man I thought I could love but now hate with every fibre of my being, and I celebrate his impending execution.
Rose Tico, Member of the National Convention and Machine Designer.