These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not nullsec issues GÇö for war and hunger and ignorance and POS bubbles know no alliance barriers.

But because I am a Goon, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured GÇö perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not the alliance to which I belong GÇö for that should be important only to me GÇö but what kind of Eve I believe in.

I believe in an Eve where the separation of alliance and CSM is absolute, where no Goon prelate would tell the chairman (should he be Goon) how to act, and no fat illiterate Spanish eve news blogger would tell his readers for whom to vote; where no alliance or alliance leader is granted any political preference or Sabre blueprints; and where no man is denied public office merely because his corporation tag differs from the people who might elect him.

I believe in an Eve that is officially neither Goon, pubbie nor nebulous TEST in-betweener; where no CSM representative either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from The Mittani, Eve University or any other insular source; and where no coalition seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its representatives.

For while this year it may be a Goon against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it may be a player from Eve University, Raiden, TEST, or Nulli Secunda. It was the Band of Brothers blueprint scandal, for example, that helped lead to foundation of the CSM. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you GÇö until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great change.

Finally, I believe in an Eve where alliance intolerance will someday end; where all players and all organizations are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to join or not join the alliance of his choice; where there is no Goon vote, no anti-Goon vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where pirates, scammers, mission runners, and spacejews, at both the line member and director level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the ideal of brotherhood.

That is the kind of Eve in which I believe. And it represents the kind of CSM in which I believe GÇö a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of a dictator, nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one group. I believe in a CSM whose alliance affiliations are their own private affair, neither imposed by them upon the whole of the game, or imposed by the whole of the game upon them as a condition to holding that office.